[torrance]

I’m really unsure why this is front page. For a hacker news audience that has little knowledge of Aotearoa New Zealand history, this is an odd first introduction that has historically been used to vilify Maori and in turn justify colonisation. If this is your first exposure to the history of Maori, please know this emphasis carries its own agenda.

[totetsu]

I think if someone had posted some link to an uncontroversial part of nz history it would languish on the new page with 1 or two points. Things that reinforce discourses of racial tension seem to constantly get upvoted .. somehow..