27-09-2023, 01:39 PM
(27-09-2023, 11:45 AM)jim157 Wrote:(26-09-2023, 06:59 PM)Olive Wrote: I am a long term tax payer, pakeha and as such a recipient of the benefits of colonisation. I am willing to carry financially the citizens of our country who are struggling with the intergenerational damage caused by my English antecedents' land grabs and suppression of indigenous culture, and also the citizens who have mental and physical health challenges which make their working lives precarious.
Would you prefer that children starve?
intergenerational damage, what a joke, no maori alive today would exist if not for colonisation, as for land grabs they did a fair bit of that pre whitey
The arrival of colonising Europeans did far more damage to Maori than would ever have occurred if that invasion hadn't happened. Europeans brought diseases that the indigenous peoples of many lands had no protection against and then they are swindled out of their territories and slaughtered if they resisted. Sounds like a pretty sick joke if that's what you're referring to it as. Is it any wonder the Maoris hold resentment towards the crimes committed against them?