Deborah Makarios on Nostr: You think Google Translate is bad? David Seymour is proposing we crowd-source the ...
You think Google Translate is bad? David Seymour is proposing we crowd-source the meaning of one of our country's key foundational documents, the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
You don't speak te reo Māori, the language of Te Tiriti? Your vote counts!
You don't know anything about that period of history - the backstory, the cultures involved, the socio-political context? Have your say!
You don't even know if the *English* language was used differently at that period of history? Your voice matters!
The proposed referendum is basically ChatGPTing the cornerstone document of our unwritten constitution, in the service of a distorted idea of democracy which says that if all people are equal, then so are their opinions.
#nzpol #TreatyPrinciplesBill #ToitūTeTiriti #democracy #TreatyOfWaitangi #TeTiritiOWaitangi
You don't speak te reo Māori, the language of Te Tiriti? Your vote counts!
You don't know anything about that period of history - the backstory, the cultures involved, the socio-political context? Have your say!
You don't even know if the *English* language was used differently at that period of history? Your voice matters!
The proposed referendum is basically ChatGPTing the cornerstone document of our unwritten constitution, in the service of a distorted idea of democracy which says that if all people are equal, then so are their opinions.
#nzpol #TreatyPrinciplesBill #ToitūTeTiriti #democracy #TreatyOfWaitangi #TeTiritiOWaitangi