(24-10-2023, 03:56 PM)jim157 Wrote:(22-10-2023, 06:04 PM)Olive Wrote: Seymour seems to be obsessional about several issues, but particularly in his total denial of the effects of colonisation. He talks as if colonisation didn't happen and I'm sure the local news media could do more to unpick this convenient blind spot.
Has Seymour ever been interviewed by a Māori journalist? I don't follow his interviews as he makes me feel ill.
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Why yes of course! It must have been absolutely wonderful for them to have been invaded, have land taken & be infected with various previously unknown diseases, slaughtered with what were then technically advanced weapons & have their entire way of life forever altered.
No doubt they enjoyed it every bit as much as our ancestors loved every minute of the Roman invasion & occupation.
I've yet to come across anyone advocating for a return to pre European life for Maori, (though apparently racists wouls relish it) since what IS actually wanted is fair treatment, equity.
And btw if you do a bit of reading you'll find that Maori were considerably better off than 'subsistence' level.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)