you know, i just got misty looking at this gif and how important that song is....time to listen on repeat FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRR

He's the male lead in Mary Poppins.

I'm very intrigued by the songs he's been doing for Momoa.

Of course, and I agree, and I hope that the efforts to restore something to the Moriori, as little as it may mean, continue.

That... doesn’t sound like a continuing genocide? That sounds like trying (albeit slowly), to rectify the effects of the genocide? The link you shared said that the Moriori people were killed to the point that their numbers dropped from 2000 to only 101 in 1862. There was no one to represent them and what happened to…

But the genocide took place in the C19. This reminds me of people who say, “But Africans enslaved Africans, too!” as though that’s relevant right now. It was an ugly event, but for fuck’s sake.

This month many of us are celebrating and learning to korero Te Reo, while the usual suspects try to shut it down. Maori stats are lagging behind Pakeha, we still have a lot of work to do.
I believe the most recent research on the Moriori people suggests that they were a parallel society from the same waves of…

God, I think we’re all just starting to get so fucking tired of you’re shit. It’s like you make great points, then get high on the stars you get and then you can’t stop the self-righteous, my-struggle-beats-yours train.

I’m just trying to give a local perspective to why that trope is so problematic. Reactionary types like to use it as a trump card to ‘win’ any argument about racial issues in Aotearoa, often because it means shutting down the discussion while everyone goes to Wikipedia and double-checks their information.

Yes, we’re aware of that, because there’s been a lot of ongoing work in NZ to examine past injustices and attempt to make reparations and move forward. ‘What about the Moriori’ is almost always used to argue that Maori shouldn’t be given consideration for Pakeha crimes though.

Stop it. You’re derailing. Nobody’s people or ancestry is entirely pure, and free of having done bad things in the past.

Being pedantic, of course the Canaanites existed. That’s exactly what the Hebrews/Israelites were. There’s no evidence whatsoever that any of the massacres of other Canaanites and destructions of their cities ever occurred, and considerable evidence that they didn’t. It was all a lot of big talk.

Yeah.

Lol okay. I've seen you get into shit throwing matches with many different people on this site, I'm sure it's not all of us that are the problem.

So now it’s “Who’s Suffered Most?”. How does any of this relate to the Black Lives Matter issue at all? This is a really weird way to try to derail from my original comment.

Where were your parents born? Your grandparents? I didn't ask your religion.

No beef, but since we are playing “Name That Atrocity”, what’s your racial background? Don’t come at me if there’s even a drop of Anglo blood in your body or that sure would be “ironic”.

If you didn’t start “woke”, you can never BE “woke”!

She means the cops.

Main takeaway: I miss The Fall.