20-11-2024, 10:06 AM
A petition able to be signed online is somewhat meaningless in relation to a national issue as it is easily able to be signed internationally. As such, the 252K very likely includes many non-NZrs.
With regard to my 500 year question, China has been around for more than 2,000 years while the Roman empire lasted for roughly 1,000. So it isn't ridiculously impossible that NZ might still be a country in 500 years time.
The point of my question was that I (incorrectly as it turns out) assumed that even those on this forum that are currently in favour of differential (preferential) recognition of Maori would at least be rational and honest enough to concede that it will have to come to an end at some point, with "500 years" being so far in the future that it would be easy enough to agree that it would have happened by then. But, instead, most seem to be clinging to the (in my opinion, ridiculous) notion that "Maori" will forever be a distinctly identifiable group, separate from other NZrs, and that they should forever be afforded a special place of privilege in NZ based on some of their distant ancestors having arrived here a before other peoples ancestors for as long as NZ is a nation. And, somehow that is the best way to "unify" NZ.
With regard to my 500 year question, China has been around for more than 2,000 years while the Roman empire lasted for roughly 1,000. So it isn't ridiculously impossible that NZ might still be a country in 500 years time.
The point of my question was that I (incorrectly as it turns out) assumed that even those on this forum that are currently in favour of differential (preferential) recognition of Maori would at least be rational and honest enough to concede that it will have to come to an end at some point, with "500 years" being so far in the future that it would be easy enough to agree that it would have happened by then. But, instead, most seem to be clinging to the (in my opinion, ridiculous) notion that "Maori" will forever be a distinctly identifiable group, separate from other NZrs, and that they should forever be afforded a special place of privilege in NZ based on some of their distant ancestors having arrived here a before other peoples ancestors for as long as NZ is a nation. And, somehow that is the best way to "unify" NZ.