Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 27, 2023 9:13:48 GMT 12
Greg Dawes: POLITICAL DECOLONIZATION
The path this set us on is precisely the one Mamdani regarded as a tragic mistake. It anticipates the creation of a racially bifurcated state. It entails a permanent separation of Māori and ‘the Crown’, implicitly defining the Crown as Pākehā (an idea that seems absurd when the current representative of the sovereign is Māori). Many activists want to take this understanding of the Treaty to its logical conclusion by dividing the country politically, with dual (Māori and Pākehā) sovereignties. On this view, the equality promised by article three of the Treaty is not the equality of citizens, but the political equality of two distinct peoples.
If this vision were to be implemented, it would divide what history has united (since 53% of those who identify as Māori claim at least one other ethnicity as well). Even within familiers, people could have differing political rights. But it would also create the kind of permanent political minority against which Mamdani warns, with a majority forever resentful of what they would see as its undue influence. In other countries, an ethnically-based politics of this kind has led to violence. (Sri Lanka and Rwanda are sobering examples.) There is no reason to think New Zealand would be an exception.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/10/greg-dawes-political-decolonization.html
The path this set us on is precisely the one Mamdani regarded as a tragic mistake. It anticipates the creation of a racially bifurcated state. It entails a permanent separation of Māori and ‘the Crown’, implicitly defining the Crown as Pākehā (an idea that seems absurd when the current representative of the sovereign is Māori). Many activists want to take this understanding of the Treaty to its logical conclusion by dividing the country politically, with dual (Māori and Pākehā) sovereignties. On this view, the equality promised by article three of the Treaty is not the equality of citizens, but the political equality of two distinct peoples.
If this vision were to be implemented, it would divide what history has united (since 53% of those who identify as Māori claim at least one other ethnicity as well). Even within familiers, people could have differing political rights. But it would also create the kind of permanent political minority against which Mamdani warns, with a majority forever resentful of what they would see as its undue influence. In other countries, an ethnically-based politics of this kind has led to violence. (Sri Lanka and Rwanda are sobering examples.) There is no reason to think New Zealand would be an exception.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/10/greg-dawes-political-decolonization.html