22-10-2023, 02:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 22-10-2023, 02:38 PM by Oh_hunnihunni.)
(22-10-2023, 12:00 PM)Wainuiguy Wrote: Funny how wanting all people to be treated and judged the same is racist - yet setting up systems and policies based solely on race isn't. Weird.
The Treaty has been twisted and manipulated into something it was never intended to be.
Rubbish. Seriously, that is rubbish. Look at the people who have been instrumental in bringing the Treaty into our 21st century world, and I challenge you to find a single one of them to be of dubious charcter, morals, ethics, or standing. Australia has no Treaty and look at their community. Canada, America... So many examples of colonised territories where the first peoples have been subjugated, exploited, and pretty much written off, cultures, faiths and futures. We are blessed to have the Treaty to give us guidance - and plenty of room to debate.
Where a single factor - like race, or gender, or age, or culture, or faith - means a person can be legally deprived of the same human rights as any other, especially the majority population, then that has to be balanced by affirmative action to correct that deprivation.
If you saw a child being beaten in the street, would you not intervene?