The New Zealand Parliament has voted to impose record suspensions on three lawmakers who did a Maori haka as a protest. The incident took place last November during a debate on a law on Indigenous rights.
New Zealand’s parliament on Thursday agreed to lengthy suspensions for three lawmakers who disrupted the reading of a controversial bill last year by performing a haka, a traditional Maori dance.
Two parliamentarians — Te Pati Maori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi — were suspended for 21 days and one — Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, from the same party — for seven days.
Before now, the longest suspension of a parliamentarian in New Zealand was three days.
With all due respect to Maori people, these displays are annoying to watch, but I’m of the opinion that there shouldn’t be any religious displays in government proceedings.
At least until one of these supposed gods mskescan appearance.
You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Describing a haka as a religious display is completely inaccurate.
I’ve performed them at weddings, birthday parties, and before every rugby match. It’s a display of culture and history.
And yet, still annoying.
I’m glad it annoys you. You’re still fucking wrong.
Haka isn’t even religious, what are you on about?
FlashMob there is exhibiting a common bias that the only reason to keep traditional group display behaviours around is if they’re religious. This means they are probably from a settler state where colonialism relied on suppressing local culture.