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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 weeks agoYou’re right, but it’s pretty cringe sometimes. I’ve seen a video call full of white people having a meeting about something that has nothing whatsoever to do with Maoridom start a meeting with a Karakira. It’s very performative a lot of the time.
It’s kinda hard to describe the attitude some people have.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
There’s performative bullshit because someone gets it in their head that a karakia is some from of “support”. It’s our version of “thoughts and prayers”. A token gesture to tick a box.
IMHO one of the best things to do is just lean our actual history, and not just post European contact history: there’s another six centuries of history before that just in NZ.