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New Zealand considers changing its name to confront its troubled colonial past
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Posted on 08/06/2022 9:50:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 08/06/2022 9:50:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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New Zealand is part of Polynesia. If they’re serious they’d give the power to the Maoris and join the rest to form a new nation. That would include Hawaii. Indigenous folks are not ready for self rule but is anybody?


2 posted on 08/06/2022 9:56:08 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Their women should only breed with the indigenous population.


3 posted on 08/06/2022 9:56:31 PM PDT by Az Joe (Biden & ChiComs are the enemy, not Putin.)
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To: BenLurkin

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is available at the moment.


4 posted on 08/06/2022 9:58:57 PM PDT by twister881
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Only let Māori impregnate men women.

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5 posted on 08/06/2022 9:59:05 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: Az Joe

That push is coming, with the globalist desire to eliminate white people.


6 posted on 08/06/2022 10:00:11 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want to watch the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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How about Facepalmia instead?


7 posted on 08/06/2022 10:06:52 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Bus No. 2525)
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It's really important that we dismantle some of the grips of colonization that have hindered our ability to reach our true potential.

That which we call a rose by any other name……

Changing what you call something is just virtue signaling. Anyone’s inability to reach their full potential has more to do with their character than their labels.

8 posted on 08/06/2022 10:08:15 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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If they were serious they would answer “yes” to the following questions.

Will they give up all non Maori ways and go back to just how Maori’s lived before colonialism?

Will only pure blood Maori people live there?

The answer is probably “no” to both questions.


9 posted on 08/06/2022 10:19:08 PM PDT by moviefan8 (The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. - M in No Time To Die (2021))
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change the Dutch anglicized name of New Zealand to its indigenous Maori designation of Aotearoa

All those letters an still only worth 8 points in Scrabble? Heck, the "Z" in New Zealand can do better than that.
10 posted on 08/06/2022 10:20:03 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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The population of New Zealand is just under 5.1
Million. So around one in seventy sign a petition, and that’s enough to get this vast virtue signaling enterprise off the ground. It’s the same here: whatever idiocy the left thinks of duly becomes front and center in the National agenda


11 posted on 08/06/2022 10:25:51 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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My family were on one of the First Four Ships, equivalent to the Mayflower ...

Also called the Summer Ships Dec 1850

There were 16 ships in all organized settlers sent out by the Church of England the Anglican church but the other 12 arrived much later ...

unlike the illegal aliens coming through our Southern border, these settlers were well vetted...

They had to be church members recommended by their pastors able and willing to work, be sober and have no criminal record, be disease free and fit only young men and women...

They came to the first incorporated city in NZ Christchurch in the province of Canterbury and were called the Canterbury Pilgrims ...

Their Canterbury Compact written by the church fathers mentioned the Mayflower and what happened to them that first winter ... thats one reason they weeded out any slackers etc ...

When I was a child there was a beautiful stone monument for each of the 4 ships on each of the 4 sides of the Canterbury Cathedral Etched in stone was the passenger list for each ship ... it was easy to photograph and we were proud to stand next to ours while Dad took pics (his 2X gg)

Several years ago they were all dismantled (cancel culture) and about a block away they placed glossy black material on an angle that reflects either the photographer or the trees above Its impossible to take photos and hard to read the words ..since its not clear theres a connection to the Anglican cathedral most people dont know what the monuments are for and often people sit on them ...

In 2000 when I went down there for the 150th the Maoris were included in the ceremonies about white settlers arriving etc and the idiot white female PM addressed us in Maori ... no Maoris saved the well supplied English settlers in NZ but we had shades of the Mayflower lot in spades ...

Everything is in Maori now and then English although when the English settlers arrived the Maoris had no written language ...

So this has been coming on for a long time ...

Aotearoa means land of the long white cloud ... The Southern Alps seen out at sea ...(Mt Cook 12,349 feet etc)


12 posted on 08/06/2022 10:28:57 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Well since the Maori never had a written language and likely spoke any number of dialects from settlement to settlement, this is all made up revisionist history. In other words, blame whitey, because we suck, bullcrap.

70k signatures is about how many people speak the Maori language.


13 posted on 08/06/2022 10:29:55 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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A bunch of morons. If they're not careful, they're setting themselves up to be conquered by the Chinese. Or maybe the Russians (if they ever get their act together).

Don't always rely on the hegemony of the U.S. fleet. Especially when Brandon is in charge.

14 posted on 08/06/2022 10:35:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Maybe they could even restore some of the old Maori culture — like cannibalism and such.

[Indigenous may currently be held in high esteem now, but it, like all cultures, has some dark sides.]


15 posted on 08/06/2022 10:38:08 PM PDT by TomGuy
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Some of this is hoowy

We learnt the Maori language in school and learnt their history about Kupe (Koo Pay) and his 7 canoes and the journey from Tahiti and their songs and dances...

The Maori were part of everything and there were Maori members of parliament and some even knighted by the queen and her ancestors ...

There were Maori Olympians and famous opera singers and When I was in high school a Maori Miss New Zealand ...

Maoris had all the rights we had ...

At school nobody was treated any different and the Maoris had just as much opportunity for education and jobs ...

Just what rights are they complaining they dont have ???


16 posted on 08/06/2022 10:40:44 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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The Maoris have self rule they have Pas just like the Indian reservations where the Indians rule themselves ...


17 posted on 08/06/2022 10:42:33 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: BenLurkin

Action Zealandia works....


18 posted on 08/06/2022 10:43:16 PM PDT by cranked
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Youre forgetting that they are sheep ...

about 90+% of them are well vaxxed ...


19 posted on 08/06/2022 10:46:00 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Maybe call it: Middle Earth


20 posted on 08/06/2022 10:50:57 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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