The New Zealand Parliament has voted to impose record suspensions on three lawmakers who did a Maori haka as a protest. The incident took place last November during a debate on a law on Indigenous rights.

New Zealand’s parliament on Thursday agreed to lengthy suspensions for three lawmakers who disrupted the reading of a controversial bill last year by performing a haka, a traditional Maori dance.

Two parliamentarians — Te Pati Maori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi — were suspended for 21 days and one — Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, from the same party — for seven days.

Before now, the longest suspension of a parliamentarian in New Zealand was three days.

    • Kekzkrieger@feddit.org
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      3 days ago

      Yep, if i go in front of a judge and start mooing im gonna be faced with consequences.

      What i mean is that you have to be behave apropriate to the situation and im pretty sure performing haka is not something apropriate during a sitting of the parlament, so offenders will be fined (in this case temp banned)

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        How disgustingly pitiful a position, to be so categorically incapable of understanding cultures other than your own, that you can only imagine comparing them to animals. How outdated you must feel. I suppose we should expect nothing less from someone with such a cringe-inducing self-concept that they literally call themselves a ‘warrior of kek’. I gag in sorrow at your impotence and turpitude. Perhaps it would be better if you stopped your own ‘mooing’, you sad, lost child.

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      3 days ago

      Here come the tone police.

      You trolls absolutely know what he’s talking about.

      This is why I say over and over again that Lemmy is no different than Reddit. Most people don’t have a fucking thing to say, and it’s all about popping off the mouth, posturing, intentionally missing the point. It’s all about ecoring virtue points to you people, not about staying on topic or examining anything critically.

      I have news for you, no one’s going to Pat you on the back or give you money because you say the things that you think are popular on the internet. You just make yourself look like a complete idiot.

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        Sorry bud, comparing the haka to animal noises is not “tone”, so fuck off with the disingenuous bullshit.