Welcome to Aotearoa? The Campaign to Decolonize New Zealand’s Name

[Gefn]

Parliamentary committee could recommend vote among lawmakers or referendum to adopt Māori name

A recent joint statement from the U.S. and New Zealand referred to Jacinda Ardern as prime minister of Aotearoa New Zealand.Photo: james gourley/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—The first European contact with indigenous Māori ended with four sailors killed and a hasty retreat. But it led to an identity for this South Pacific country: Nieuw Zeeland in Dutch, or New Zealand when it later became part of the British Empire.

Now, some lawmakers want New Zealanders to drop a name that harks back to an era of colonization and adopt another—Aotearoa, a Māori word referring to the clouds that indigenous oral history says helped early Polynesian navigators make their way here.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/welcome-to-aotearoa-the-campaign-to-decolonize-new-zealands-name-11658914200?page=1

[Kamaji]

[catfish1957]

Same kind of revisonist woke shit, that caused Mt. McKinley to become Denali. 

I enjoy seeing geography reflect progression in  history rather than needless meddling by woke factions. 

I mean geez....   27 of our 50 state names have roots in indiginous inhabitants words and names.   

And next ladies and gentlemen?  All these counties in the south named after Confederates?  This shit will not end.

[Smokin Joe]

Same kind of revisonist woke shit, that caused Mt. McKinley to become Denali. 

Why not? Denali is an anagram of Denial

I enjoy seeing geography reflect progression in  history rather than needless meddling by woke factions. 

I mean geez....   27 of our 50 state names have roots in indiginous inhabitants words and names.   

And next ladies and gentlemen?  All these counties in the south named after Confederates?  This shit will not end.

It muddles history, by making who did what where harder to sort, and that is right down the Left's alley.

[Free Vulcan]

Now to really decolonize it, all the white people need to leave, including you Jacinda.

[Kamaji]

Now to really decolonize it, all the white people need to leave, including you Jacinda.

[mountaineer]

And next ladies and gentlemen?  All these counties in the south named after Confederates?  This shit will not end.

Yep. They're already renaming every military installation named after Confederates. Heck, they're trying to dump the names of anyone who ever owned a slave, e.g., Washington, Jefferson, etc.

[goatprairie]

Same kind of revisonist woke shit, that caused Mt. McKinley to become Denali. 

I enjoy seeing geography reflect progression in  history rather than needless meddling by woke factions. 

I mean geez....   27 of our 50 state names have roots in indiginous inhabitants words and names.   

And next ladies and gentlemen?  All these counties in the south named after Confederates?  This shit will not end.

"Same kind of revisonist woke shit, that caused Mt. McKinley to become Denali."

I remember when Obama did that. He didn't do it unilaterally....it was requested by the state of Alaska and a number of Alaskan pols. It was opposed by a number of Ohio pols including John Boehner.
But it brings up an interesting point.....what gives the POTUS the authority to change the name of a national park, monument, or whatever simply because the people in a certain state want it renamed?
The Alaskans asked it to be changed back to its original name, Denali.
Do they have a point? New York state changed the name of Sing Sing prison to Ossining and then back to Sing Sing prison. Do the people of whatever state have the right to change the name of any city, geographical feature, or monument whenever they feel like it?
If so...look for many more name changes including name changes to places that have had the same name for hundreds of years. But the names will be of the woke variety. Maybe no more Washington D.C. We can't have a city named after a slave owner, can we? Malcolm X City here we come.