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>Note how the story linked therein [1] minimizes the genocide by calling it a "myth" What they're calling a myth is the idea that Moriori were a pre-Maori race
by PlunderBunny 3y ago
>Note how the story linked therein [1] minimizes the genocide by calling it a "myth"
What they're calling a myth is the idea that Moriori were a pre-Maori race, not that there was a genocide.
- SenAnder 3y agoFirstly, the myth. You’ve heard it before. There were a pre-Māori people in New Zealand, called the Moriori. When Māori arrived in the country they set about obliterating these peaceful Moriori inhabitants until not a single Moriori remained alive. That's what the article opens with. It proceeds to claim the entire genocide involved only 300 deaths.
- PlunderBunny 3y agoYou're right that the paragraph you've quoted could be read that way, and is badly worded, to the point where, without any additional context, it could be interpreted to be saying that the genocide is a myth. But there is additional context, and the rest of the article makes no attempt to deny the genocide and enslavement of the Moriori. The Moriori weren't pre-Maori people, and they weren't completely obliterated (by the 900 Maori that attacked them) - that's the myth.