A short YouTube video clip featuring David Seymour reflecting on universal equal-rights values and asserting that the Treaty of Waitangi promotes those values. Seymour emphasizes that equal rights for men and women and protection from discrimination by religion, sexuality, or race are historically limited achievements and that the Treaty, as drafted by the British, embodies those ascending values.
I'm passionate about the fact that we live in this just flicker in human history, you know, just a few hundred years, and sadly, only in a minority of countries where the basic idea that men and women are equal. We don't care about your religion, we don't care about your sexuality, we don't care about your race. You get a basic package of rights that no one can take away from you that's very special. And I think a lot of people probably assume that's normal because it's all I've known in their lifetime. But actually, most people in most of history and even most of people on the planet today don't really have that. So it's certainly something that is worth understanding and really putting up in lights as being important. So that's the first thing. The second thing is the Treaty of Waitangi, as I read it, actually is a document that promotes those values. And it was written, drafted by the British at a time when actually those sorts of values were in the ascendancy.
