Debate on Language and Identity in New Zealand

English is a bastard language.

This is what you're fighting to protect.

It's a language that's not even its own.

It's a bastardisation of Greek, Old Norse, Latin.

It's a complete bastardisation and this is what we're wasting the House's time fighting for?

Sorry, I know no one wants to say it straight up

but these snowflakes over here, bunch of snowflakes that hear the word Aotearoa and cry themselves to sleep over there.

No personal attacks, thank you.

They cry when they hear the word Aotearoa.

They stand up and point of order it in this House.

That's how weak they are.

They see Te Reo Maori and they shiver in their boots.

Oh my gosh,

the Parliament delegation just went to Wales and look at them.

They've got their beautiful indigenous language,

Ka Marae, everywhere before English and guess what? The world didn't fall over and the world didn't end.

People still knew where they were going.

In fact, people saw it and thought,

wow, we're in a country that values their indigenous language and identity,

unlike our snowflake government that cannot handle Te Reo Maori,

which is why one of the first orders of business for them

was rearranging Aotearoa and New Zealand on the passport and making sure that we could take Te Reo Maori out of government departments' names.

Oh, come on.

How divorced from reality can you be that you think switching out Te Reo Maori is a priority for any New Zealander?

And let me tell you why Te Reo Maori has a protected language status.

Because it was beaten out of Maori systematically.

We had to march our asses to Parliament,

demanding that the indigenous first language of this country be recognised and not beaten out of the mouths of its native speakers.

And you know what I think the ironic thing is too?

English isn't even an official language in England.

Even they know that. It's just stupid.