drumhellar: While the Giant Magellan Telescope and the European Extremely Large Telescope were both overwhelmingly supported by the indigenous population, Hawaii's proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) - like many telescopes atop Mauna Kea before it - faced significant protests and opposition from native Hawaiians, who cited many concerns and injustices that dated back decades or even centuries.

I hate writing like this - it takes a singular ethnic group and portrays them as a monolith even though there is a wide diversity of opinion among native Hawaiians. You can't say native Hawaiians oppose it, and you can't say they are in favor of it, because both are roughly equally true.

Granted, how equally true fluctuates over time - at least earlier in the life of the project before that stupid message the article mentioned, a clear majority of native Hawaiians were in favor (at least according to a poll conducted by a local newspaper), and opposition was mainly a very vocal minority opinion.