Brutkey

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

"#NewZealand MPs who performed #haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment

#TePātiMāori co-leaders and youngest member to be temporarily suspended from #parliament after performance protesting controversial bill"

The bill in question (the #TreatyPrinciplesBill) wanted to reinterpret the #TreatyOfWaitangi (1840), which upholds #Māori rights

The bill was defeated

I think the proper response to a bullshit punishment for protecting #MāoriRights is a lot more hakas

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/15/new-zealand-mps-haka-parliament-suspended

Robin Barton
@Robo105@mastodon.social

@benroyce@mastodon.social not really best behaviour in a parliament

LoranJohn
@LoranJohn@mastodon.social

@Robo105@mastodon.social @benroyce@mastodon.social are you familiar with this dude named "Popper" and his views on tolerance?

Robin Barton
@Robo105@mastodon.social

@LoranJohn@mastodon.social @benroyce@mastodon.social Karl Popper?

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

@Robo105@mastodon.social @LoranJohn@mastodon.social

yup

if we tolerate intolerance intolerance grows and tolerance shrinks

large swaths of the world will come to learn this lesson

hopefully the easy way

countries like mine, the USA, look to learn it the hard way

that someone is being "uncivil" in response to serenely delivered disrespect is merely a trick

tolerance is the baseline

without it, nothing is possible

certainly not civility

thus you want to support those who become "uncivil" in response to disrespect

Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱
@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk

@benroyce@mastodon.social

tl;dr "it's always OK to punch Nazis"

@Robo105@mastodon.social @LoranJohn@mastodon.social

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk @Robo105@mastodon.social @LoranJohn@mastodon.social

#AlwaysPunchANazi

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