maori party think that maori are entitled to lower retirement age

[C_T_Russell]

More race based BS coming out from TPM.
Can't wait until they are gone out of parliament for 3 weeks for their childish behavior.

[king1]

because statistically Maori have a lower life expectancy... We could perhaps solve that problem with some targeted health initiatives for Maori - don't think that's been tried before?

[heisenberg]

because statistically Maori have a lower life expectancy...  We could perhaps solve that problem with some targeted health initiatives for Maori - don't think that's been tried before?

lower life expectancy because of lifestyle and choices, the idiot with the tattoos and culturally appropriated hat tells us maori are genetically superior
maori already have plenty of targeted health initiatives and funding

[king1]

because statistically Maori have a lower life expectancy...  We could perhaps solve that problem with some targeted health initiatives for Maori - don't think that's been tried before?

lower life expectancy because of lifestyle and choices, the idiot with the tattoos and culturally appropriated hat tells us maori are genetically superior
maori already have plenty of targeted health initiatives and funding

so your evidence is the words of one person? why am I not surprised...

I wonder if science has a reason for the lower life expectancy, I'd love to take your word for it but you seem a tad biased on the matter...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

It isn't just genetics. It is educational deprivation, health outcomes, poverty, intergenerational heritage, environmental consequences, employment and occupational opportunities, and colonisation. Among other things.

And an awful lot of those factors could be changed for the better if we as a nation decided to focus on them. But so long as there are racists among us, and in our government, there will be no political will to do so.

As for "the idiot with the tattoos and culturally appropriated hat", at least he has the guts and the nouse and the drive to stand up in the Western parliamentary system we have adopted, and speak for his people. In that respect he is way ahead of many, is that superior genetics? Perhaps.

It sure as hell beats being a racist keyboard warrior.

[heisenberg]

As for "the idiot with the tattoos and culturally appropriated hat", at least he has the guts and the nouse and the drive to stand up in the Western parliamentary system we have adopted, and speak for his people. In that respect he is way ahead of many, is that superior genetics? Perhaps.

It sure as hell beats being a racist keyboard warrior.

yea sure

[Zurdo]

Women live longer than men, so I think they should have to wait until the men have retired.

Maori have more health issues for sure, and looking at what is in their supermarket trolleys I think I know why. To balance that, they are closer to a hunter gatherer lifestyle than us white boys who have had table manners for thousands of years. A hunter gatherer will need to eat as much now as they can, eat the fatty stuff to store away for later because they don't know when they will eat again.

I don't mind if they retire early, but perhaps as in other countries, at a reduced rate for early retirement.

[king1]

Maori have more health issues for sure, and looking at what is in their supermarket trolleys I think I know why. To balance that, they are closer to a hunter gatherer lifestyle than us white boys who have had table manners for thousands of years. A hunter gatherer will need to eat as much now as they can, eat the fatty stuff to store away for later because they don't know when they will eat again.

quick question, how are they closer to a hunter gatherer lifestyle if they shop in the same supermarket as you?

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Women live longer than men, so I think they should have to wait until the men have retired.

Maori have more health issues for sure, and looking at what is in their supermarket trolleys I think I know why. To balance that, they are closer to a hunter gatherer lifestyle than us white boys who have had table manners for thousands of years. A hunter gatherer will need to eat as much now as they can, eat the fatty stuff to store away for later because they don't know when they will eat again.

I don't mind if they retire early, but perhaps as in other countries, at a reduced rate for early retirement.

Maybe we wimmin live longer because some of you lot don't...

Just sayin'.

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As for "the idiot with the tattoos and culturally appropriated hat", at least he has the guts and the nouse and the drive to stand up in the Western parliamentary system we have adopted, and speak for his people. In that respect he is way ahead of many, is that superior genetics? Perhaps.

It sure as hell beats being a racist keyboard warrior.

yea sure

See? You CAN  be taught. 

[Praktica]

Women live longer than men, so I think they should have to wait until the men have retired.

Maori have more health issues for sure, and looking at what is in their supermarket trolleys I think I know why. To balance that, they are closer to a hunter gatherer lifestyle than us white boys who have had table manners for thousands of years. A hunter gatherer will need to eat as much now as they can, eat the fatty stuff to store away for later because they don't know when they will eat again.

I don't mind if they retire early, but perhaps as in other countries, at a reduced rate for early retirement.

Maori were farmers who hunted. Their staple crop was the kumara.

[zqwerty]

Maori were the fiercest Warriors that the British Empire ever faced followed by the Gurkha then the Zulu, if you did Cambridge School Certificate that's what you would have been taught. The British never beat the Maori or the Gurkha they had to make treaties to ensure peace. Treaty of Waitangi, remember?

You are correct there was a shortage of meat in NZ hence using the alternative, long pig. They also gorged whenever food was on offer because you never knew when your next meal might arrive. They may indeed have not adjusted to Western ways in 3 or 4 generations so probably do suffer in ways due to old habits, it's not thousands of years, it's barely 200.

Most of the Maori men I have met have been men in the real sense of the word and are still formidable characters deserving of respect, I won't be getting them riled up.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I didn't do the Cambridge, but I had a dad who went through Sandhurst, so not only do I know that, I also know about Maori and trench warfare...

[zqwerty]

"I also know about Maori and trench warfare..."

Absolutely correct, world class experts, they taught the British a thing or two and the UK troops were experienced and had fought many other races and won before over hundreds of years.

It's the business men causing inflation by raising prices at the drop of a hat, including bankers, not Maori getting pensions a bit early.

[heisenberg]

i wonder what the punishment would be for a maori warrior murdering a baby back in the good old days?

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I wonder what the punishment would be for any guy raping a child was back then?

The common demoninator being not race, but gender...

[zqwerty]

There's no good old days it was tough and hard times with shortages of food mostly all over the world with only the rich having a better time but they still had to contend with lots of different diseases without much knowledge or suitable treatments to help out, we are living in golden times soon to be brought to a crunching halt by global warming/climate change, we are grossly over populated overall on Earth. NZ should do alright in the short term, that's why I'm here. Same as Thiel really except I'm almost broke. He's got a nice little hidey hole somewhere around Queenstown I believe, paid $5,000,000 to the Government to get citizenship instantly I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

[heisenberg]

There's no good old days it was tough and hard times with shortages of food mostly all over the world with only the rich having a better time but they still had to contend with lots of different diseases without much knowledge or suitable treatments to help out, we are living in golden times soon to be brought to a crunching halt by global warming/climate change, we are grossly over populated overall on Earth.  NZ should do alright in the short term, that's why I'm here.  Same as Thiel really except I'm almost broke.  He's got a nice little hidey hole somewhere around Queenstown I believe, paid $5,000,000 to the Government to get citizenship instantly I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

he will have contributed more to NZ than you ever will

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Thiel?

Don't do that to me! It makes my ribs hurt...

Peter Thiel is a threat to humanity. Trump's puppet master. Sponsor of The Eyeliner Man. And the Nats gave him citizenship on the advice of one of our biggest law firms, who were right royally compensated for the job. He's a sneaky little creature who wanted a bolthole here for when the End of the World arrived.

Repulsive creature.

[zqwerty]

Oh_hunnihunni said it all, these billionaires are a danger to all of mankind and life on Earth, these idiots are taking us all on a fast track to nowhere.

[Praktica]

Peter Theil and a dodgy deal... https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/bill...XCR4MLRHU/