"#NewZealand MPs who performed #haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

"#NewZealand MPs who performed #haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment

#TePātiMāori co-leaders and youngest member to be temporarily suspended from #parliament after performance protesting controversial bill"

The bill in question (the #TreatyPrinciplesBill) wanted to reinterpret the #TreatyOfWaitangi (1840), which upholds #Māori rights

The bill was defeated

I think the proper response to a bullshit punishment for protecting #MāoriRights is a lot more hakas

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/15/new-zealand-mps-haka-parliament-suspended

[robo105@mastodon.social]

@benroyce not really best behaviour in a parliament

[loranjohn@mastodon.social]

@Robo105 @benroyce are you familiar with this dude named "Popper" and his views on tolerance?

[robo105@mastodon.social]

@LoranJohn @benroyce Karl Popper?

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Robo105 @LoranJohn

yup

if we tolerate intolerance intolerance grows and tolerance shrinks

large swaths of the world will come to learn this lesson

hopefully the easy way

countries like mine, the USA, look to learn it the hard way

that someone is being "uncivil" in response to serenely delivered disrespect is merely a trick

tolerance is the baseline

without it, nothing is possible

certainly not civility

thus you want to support those who become "uncivil" in response to disrespect

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Robo105 @LoranJohn

the biggest lie in our current world is that a forceful response to intolerance is the problem

that the intolerance is delivered "politely", "civilly", "lawfully" is merely the setup to the trick

then the bigot can clutch their pearls and go "see! see!" at the response to intolerance, as a ruse to be even more bigoted

millions upon millions fall for this trick

the test of our time is that enough of us learn that civility is not the baseline

tolerance is the baseline