How far do you want to look? How bleak do you want to get?
The missionary societies owned slaves, notably the Anglican societies, and they accepted the slaveowners' compensation and put it into their other investments. Pretty sure Tina Ngata or someone has talked about this: the missionaries who settled here, whose salaries were paid for decades from London, were direct beneficiaries of compensation, which is to say soft lavery.
The Empire in the 1840s was slaughtering their way through Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. We sent detachments to the Boer Wars, there's a big ANZAC memorial in the Negev, and entire expeditionary armies were being wiped out in Kabul, and the armies of retribution slaughtering entire cities in revenge.
Whenua are tīpuna, do white land "ownership" is slavery too. Seems we're planning on making all the same mistakes again, with even the Green party offering compensation to white landowners, rather than 200 years go back to rent to the only Peoples who actually belong to the land.
But then, as jared Davidson points out, the infrastructure of colonial New Zealand was primarily built by "prisoners" - i.e. Māori - and of course abuseincare.org.nz shows how little has changed since 1840 - so just who do us white zealanders think we are?
How far do you want to look? How bleak do you want to get?
The missionary societies owned slaves, notably the Anglican societies, and they accepted the slaveowners' compensation and put it into their other investments. Pretty sure Tina Ngata or someone has talked about this: the missionaries who settled here, whose salaries were paid for decades from London, were direct beneficiaries of compensation, which is to say soft lavery.
The Empire in the 1840s was slaughtering their way through Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. We sent detachments to the Boer Wars, there's a big ANZAC memorial in the Negev, and entire expeditionary armies were being wiped out in Kabul, and the armies of retribution slaughtering entire cities in revenge.
Whenua are tīpuna, do white land "ownership" is slavery too. Seems we're planning on making all the same mistakes again, with even the Green party offering compensation to white landowners, rather than 200 years go back to rent to the only Peoples who actually belong to the land.
But then, as jared Davidson points out, the infrastructure of colonial New Zealand was primarily built by "prisoners" - i.e. Māori - and of course abuseincare.org.nz shows how little has changed since 1840 - so just who do us white zealanders think we are?