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She can get fucked, as can any other king or queen.
The Māori monarchy dates back to the 19th Century, when different Māori tribes decided to create a unifying figure similar to that of a European monarch in order to try to prevent the widespread loss of land to New Zealand’s British colonisers and to preserve Māori culture. The role is largely ceremonial.
Than she can largely ceremoniously get fucked. I don’t care why anyone deigns themselves a monarch.
They never felt the need to have a monarch. Now they only symbolically have one, and the aim of that was to prevent the loss of their culture.
It’s not an actual ruling position, so your anti-monarchy sentiment really doesn’t apply here.
What you should be mad at is that their culture was put under such a threat that they saw the need to emulate even the tiniest bit of monarchies.
She’s an elected leader for the unified Maori tribes, a largely ceremonial role whose primary purpose is to protect Maori interests against government overreach.
But go ahead and latch onto the name I guess.
I will gladly latch onto the name.
Also it’s largely ceremonial but also primary serves a purpose. How odd, is it ceremony or function.
What it is, is a functionally hereditary title being passed down 8 generations of a family. And it’s not even representing all Māori because not everyone was stupid enough to want a monarch.
Hundreds of millions fought and died for thousands of years against monarchs all over the globe. And here’s you lot coming along championing the birth of a new one because it’s not as powerful today.
