07-19-2019, 09:04 AM
Well, the vote needed to be 2/3 majority...
"Well, the vote needs to only include Hawaiians...
"Well, referendum voting isn't Hawaiian,
I’ve been over on another social network the last few days, posting links to the poll showing 72% Native Hawaiian support TMT. Most refuse to believe it, some accept a poll was conducted but hypothesize the many reasons it was probably flawed, based on misreading the methodology. I’ve seen many rabbits pulled out of a hat with nothing up their sleeve. Almost all continue to believe most Hawaiians oppose the TMT, even when I ask if that’s based on another poll they know about?
If they switch the argument and/or discussion to colonization and repression of the Hawaiian people, I agree with them. Asking if it didn’t really start in 1893, but in 1819 when the Hawaiian religion was outlawed? It doesn’t seem as if anyone wants to decommission the churches though, remnants of the missionaries, which is where banning Hawaiian culture, hula, chants, language, dress (or lack of) started. Most are OK with that, blaming “the power structure” of business and government, but not the churches.
"Well, the vote needs to only include Hawaiians...
"Well, referendum voting isn't Hawaiian,
I’ve been over on another social network the last few days, posting links to the poll showing 72% Native Hawaiian support TMT. Most refuse to believe it, some accept a poll was conducted but hypothesize the many reasons it was probably flawed, based on misreading the methodology. I’ve seen many rabbits pulled out of a hat with nothing up their sleeve. Almost all continue to believe most Hawaiians oppose the TMT, even when I ask if that’s based on another poll they know about?
If they switch the argument and/or discussion to colonization and repression of the Hawaiian people, I agree with them. Asking if it didn’t really start in 1893, but in 1819 when the Hawaiian religion was outlawed? It doesn’t seem as if anyone wants to decommission the churches though, remnants of the missionaries, which is where banning Hawaiian culture, hula, chants, language, dress (or lack of) started. Most are OK with that, blaming “the power structure” of business and government, but not the churches.
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”