{"id":42159,"date":"2022-03-04T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T03:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/04\/nzs-parliament-protests-were-frightening-but-they-dont-mean-the-country-is-splintering"},"modified":"2022-03-04T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T03:47:33","slug":"nzs-parliament-protests-were-frightening-but-they-dont-mean-the-country-is-splintering-max-rashbrooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42159","title":{"rendered":"NZ\u2019s parliament protests were frightening but they don\u2019t mean the country is splintering | Max Rashbrooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disagreement is a sign of healthy democratic debate not of dysfunction \u2013 and hard-core conspiracists remain marginal<\/p>\n<p>The occupation of New Zealand\u2019s parliament was fractured from the outset: fascists vied for control with controversial pastors, conspiracy theorists and more moderate anti-mandate protesters. And even as the occupation violently collapsed with rioters lobbing cobblestones at police, the divisions remained. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/03\/this-is-a-moment-new-zealand-reckons-with-aftermath-as-smoke-clears-on-violent-protests\">shouted \u201cburn it down\u201d<\/a>, while others tried to restrain them.<\/p>\n<p>As New Zealand reacts to some of its darkest days in recent memory, these internal rivalries are, obscurely, a hopeful sign \u2013 a reminder there was far more division inside the protest than between the protesters and the wider nation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/04\/nzs-parliament-protests-were-frightening-but-they-dont-mean-the-country-is-splintering\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disagreement is a sign of healthy democratic debate not of dysfunction \u2013 and hard-core conspiracists remain marginalThe occupation of New Zealand\u2019s parliament was fractured from the outset: fascists vied for control with controversial pastors, conspira&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42160,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42159\/revisions\/42160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}