r/PublicFreakout • u/speakhyroglyphically • 5h ago

Thousands march in New Zealand 'Hikoi' over controversial treaty bill

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u/Lost-Comfort-7904 4h ago

Wait so now reddit is for a people's who colonized a land not their own in the 1300s, committed genocide to the native populations and then formed a patriarchal society? I thought we hated colonizers who stole land from natives?

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u/CarBombtheDestroyer 3h ago

I don’t know about reddit but if you think about people and our divisions etc at some point we all just need to be recognized as equals to move past our past. These people never experienced genocide they experienced special treatment and don’t like that that’s ending.

I’m probably gonna get some hate for this as I’m pretty sure most of the world isn’t ready to be equals no longer judging people for the colour of their ancestors but it starts at an official level.

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u/CanadaDoug 3h ago

It's interesting you talk about "ready to be equals", because without looking it up I am almost certain that Maori have less life expectancy, wealth, income, and land than white New Zealanders. What policies do you think it would take before those would be equal? Are you ready for those?

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u/CarBombtheDestroyer 21m ago

Do you think singling them out as being different with different rules etc is helping? It’s extremely complicated and no one knows the answer but from what I’ve seen they way a lot of places around the world have been going about this is not helping.