Globally homophobes praise the haka stopping the Auckland Pride Parade and are taking notes. Part 2 of 3.
The videos of the Auckland Pride Parade being stopped has been shared all over the world in multiple languages. We can expect homophobes to be more aggressive against Pride events here in Dallas.
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I expect that we will see more aggressive approaches against Pride events in Dallas. That is why I am posting this report in the Dallas Gay Liberation newsletter.
South Korea violent Christian attacks on Pride Parades show how aggressive attacks on Pride can be.
Though the haka stopping the Pride parade is much more aggressive than Westboro Baptist and other groups screaming on the side of Pride events or across the street from Pride events it is nothing compared to the aggression of Korean Christians violently attacking pride events.
It is possible that there will be a continuing development of more aggressive tactics that rival the violent attacks in South Korea.
Background information on the haka stopping the Pride parade in Auckland.
A group called ManUp of Maori’s from homophobic Pentecostal Destiny Church ran infront of the Pride Parade and did a haka and blocked it.
The leader is Brian Tamaki who calls himself an apostle.
https://x.com/BrianTamakiNZ/status/1890668300729979068
Here on X he boasts about stopping the Pride Parade.
It has been reposted 14,000 times. It has 69,000 likes as of 2/18/2025, 11:07 am CST. 2.5 million views.
He is also proud of a mob disruption of a library event.
https://x.com/BrianTamakiNZ/status/1890579864127693203
Reposted 5,600 times and liked 29,000 times. Viewed 610,000 times.
Homophobes are praising this and surely noting how the ManUp group got away with this.
Billboard Chris.
https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1890737952696811618
26,300,000 views. Reposted 38,000 times. Liked 265,000 times.
Conservative Matt Walsh.
https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1891539268436173100
2,400,000 views. 3,800 reposts, 77,000 likes.
“I recently made fun of the Haka dance but I’d like to clarify that if they’re using it to interrupt a gay pride parade then in that case I think it’s great.”
Many, many other homophobes picked up on this. Some examples.
https://x.com/seanfeucht/status/1890841748647084195
https://x.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1891533074267324854
21,400 views, 82 reposts, 878 likes.
https://x.com/WithyGrove/status/1890789108777152622
The mob attack at the library was also supported.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1890830939552665622
1.1 Million views. 3,700 reposts, 28,000 likes.
There were posts like the above in many other languages than English.
There were posts in Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Slavic languages.
Pravda hasd an article.
https://new-zealand.news-pravda.com/new-zealand/2025/02/18/361.html
Homophobes see that the protest stopped the parade and there weren’t any consequences to them.
The tactics of the Westboro Baptist church of saying vile things while standing on the side of the pride parade will now seem lacking to homophobes who now see how to halt the whole Gay parade. They see an LGBTQXYZ+ community that won’t or can’t defend itself.
They see a police force that is unwilling to act.
The pacificistic approach of the LGBTQXYZ+ is an invitation for these homophobes to atack pride events.
The fight hate wih love apparoach isn’t going to keep the community safe.
The third post in this series will discuss a Dallas community with a much more dire situation and how they met it.
Postscript: Most Maoris are shifting to atheism. These idiots are not representative.
Katuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Nov. 2, 2023, “Māori atheism: a decolonising project?”
Between 2006 and 2018, the proportion of Māori identifying with ‘no religion’ on the census increased from 36.5% to 53.5%. This change coincided with a substantial decline in Māori affiliation with Christianity (from 46.2% to 29.9%). Similar patterns were observed among Māori who reside in Australia (Nixon Citation2016). If Māori are disaffiliating from Christianity at roughly the same rate (∼17%) as the category of ‘no religion’ is expanding, does this indicate that atheism is on the rise? Despite these dramatic shifts, we know little about Māori nonreligion or what sits behind these patterns of religious change on the census.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1177083X.2024.2333544
