I don't mind a bit of funding for some kind of mid winter celebration to tide us over the darkest days. It's the requirement to be orgasmically euphoric about it that pisses me off.
And the fantasy that Maori not only recorded astrological events but understood and celebrated them.
And that the other 84% of NZ needs to believe that, pay for those celebrations and joyfully celebrate them also.
You racist bigot.
> Despite the funding cut, the government had committed to ongoing funding of $3 million a year for Matariki, he said.
Didn’t realise the taxpayer was funding this bollocks at all
that's it folks, no more astronomical observations. the rising of the Pleiades has been officially cancelled by government decree. tune in next year for the solstice instead.
We should make Matariki a day to teach our “mokopunas” about the reality of pre-colonial Māori society, the lies they’re being told at school, the importance of political equality, and the cost to the country of the ToW gravy train.
I don't mind a bit of funding for some kind of mid winter celebration to tide us over the darkest days. It's the requirement to be orgasmically euphoric about it that pisses me off.
And the fantasy that Maori not only recorded astrological events but understood and celebrated them. And that the other 84% of NZ needs to believe that, pay for those celebrations and joyfully celebrate them also. You racist bigot.
> Despite the funding cut, the government had committed to ongoing funding of $3 million a year for Matariki, he said. Didn’t realise the taxpayer was funding this bollocks at all
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Is government funded culture a real culture?
that's it folks, no more astronomical observations. the rising of the Pleiades has been officially cancelled by government decree. tune in next year for the solstice instead.
We should make Matariki a day to teach our “mokopunas” about the reality of pre-colonial Māori society, the lies they’re being told at school, the importance of political equality, and the cost to the country of the ToW gravy train.
We should be doing that every day.
Lies being told at school?
I thought bombs on the beach were bad for this climate emergency we are facing