David Seymour & the treaty

[Praktica]

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?

Why is the maori party so hell bent on reversing colonization then?
That seems to be their end goal.
Maori are lucky they have a treaty, most countries never had such an agreement.
Colonization was inevitable, and I doubt they would be any better off had Dutch explorers colonized new zealand.
Christianity taught the Maori peace and ended years of fighting and cannabilism.
Anyone would think they would be better off left running around in grass skirts and no health system, roads, electricity, etc etc.

So speaks the colonialist...