His racism is more subtle and self-serving here, by saying it doesn’t matter if you you came yesterday on a plane or whakapapa to the first waka everyone’s a kiwi, he erases tangata whenua in a way palatable to a lot of pakeha.

I'm going to assume they are all pedos too until such time they take the whole thing seriously

The guy without a tie on? That's Ricardo Menéndez March, one of our Green Party MPs. He was born in Mexico & immigrated to NZ fairly recently. He's a strong advocate for LBGQI+ rights & an anti-poverty activist. Any discomfort is probably just that he is relatively new to the Māori cultural context.