New Zealand: Māori king's daughter crowned as king buried

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Deceptichum , 6 hours ago

She can get fucked, as can any other king or queen.

wren , 6 hours ago

The Māori monarchy dates back to the 19th Century, when different Māori tribes decided to create a unifying figure similar to that of a European monarch in order to try to prevent the widespread loss of land to New Zealand’s British colonisers and to preserve Māori culture. The role is largely ceremonial.

Deceptichum , 6 hours ago

Than she can largely ceremoniously get fucked. I don’t care why anyone deigns themselves a monarch.

FlyingSquid , 4 hours ago

You might as well just say colonialism in New Zealand was a good thing.

Deceptichum , 3 hours ago

🙄

Dasus , 4 hours ago

They never felt the need to have a monarch. Now they only symbolically have one, and the aim of that was to prevent the loss of their culture.

It’s not an actual ruling position, so your anti-monarchy sentiment really doesn’t apply here.

What you should be mad at is that their culture was put under such a threat that they saw the need to emulate even the tiniest bit of monarchies.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Māori_King_movement

FlyingSquid , 4 hours ago

Really, what you can infer from their statement is that the British gave the Maori a gift by bringing them democracy.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

Deceptichum , 4 hours ago

God damn you’re reaching hard to make up bullshit.

FlyingSquid , 4 hours ago

I’m really not. The monarchy was a response to British colonialism. You are saying it was a bad thing because monarchies are bad. Therefore the British colonialism that the bad thing was fighting and got rid of the bad thing and replaced it with democracy must be the better alternative.

Deceptichum , 4 hours ago

I’m really not. The monarchy was a response to British colonialism. You are saying it was a bad thing because monarchies are bad. Therefore the British colonialism that the bad thing was fighting and got rid of the bad thing and replaced it with democracy must be the better alternative.

I cannot parse this.

FlyingSquid , 3 hours ago

Not my problem.

Deceptichum , 3 hours ago

Rightio, enjoy that.

Dremor , 3 hours ago

I don’t see any sign of such inference. He only said that Maori felt the need to create a symbolic figurehead to counter the threat that British colonialism did put on their culture.

I don’t know much on that topic, but I can confidently say that your answer is really far fetched.

FlyingSquid , 3 hours ago

I think you misunderstand the conversation chain here. The person I was responding to and I are in agreement about the original poster. I was just saying that you can infer a pro-colonialist sentiment from their ‘fuck their monarchy’ attitude.

Dremor , 3 hours ago

If it was the case, the chain is for sure confusing 😆

Zyrxil , 3 hours ago

Well then reply to them, not the other person replying to them. You’re causing the confusion here. You don’t always need to reply to the latest post in a thread.

FlyingSquid , 2 hours ago

Cool, I’ll just get in my time machine…

Blueberrydreamer , 36 minutes ago

She’s an elected leader for the unified Maori tribes, a largely ceremonial role whose primary purpose is to protect Maori interests against government overreach.

But go ahead and latch onto the name I guess.