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Why do so many people from overseas feel like they can see one video about Māori and be qualified to make claims about the futility of our decolonial strategy? Where does this unearned sense of expertise come from? Tens of thousands are marching on parliament next Tuesday, Alon.

Alon Mizrahi

Alon Mizrahi

Extremely unpopular opinion (I suspect): hakas will not get Maori people their rights, just as Debka won't work for Palestinians. Anger, direct action, strikes, and serious disruptions will. There are very clear rules for effective political struggle, and indigenous culture is for indigenous people. It is lost on colonizers, and its very presence in a filthy colonizer parliament disgraces it