How do you know the few hundred or so people you referenced, who are in opposition to TMT, are superstitious racists? Have you recently gone to Mauna Kea and talked to those people?
Are you not aware opposition to TMT is coming from people from all different socio-economic, educational, and professional backgrounds who are not racist?
Why would I have to "go to Mauna Kea and talk" to them to know what those people believe? Have you gone to Mauna Kea and talked to those people? Have you talked to all the people you claim oppose the TMT and are not racist? I didn't think so. But you still make statement about what they believe. I have the same capacity.
The criminals there breaking the law have made many public statements, on the record, unless you want to claim that those are all fake news and doctored videos. From many of their comments it's clear they assert a belief in supernatural entities and/or events for which there is absolutely no objective evidence at all. That's what I call superstition. That's their whole basis for their claim that that geological structure is "sacred" and therefore must not be defiled. They have no such claims about the "'aina" they lease for millions of dollars per year to Target, WalMart, Home Depot, Safeway, etc., so they apparently claim to have some ability to distinguish the sacred land from the profane land used for capitalistic profit. I asked the other day for someone to provide a detailed map of the whole island depicting exactly where the boundaries are between the sacred land and the land one inch on the other side of that boundary that is profane and may be used to profit from by leasing to non-hawaiian corporations. So far no one has provided such a map. If you have one, I'd like to see it. I'd also like to know who drew the boundaries, how they determined those were the correct boundaries, and if everyone else who claims to have supernatural experiences, including the ability to detect the sacred, all agree that those are the correct boundaries.
Anyone (likely at least some of the people up there don't fit this definition, but those that speak publicly on the subject certainly do) who claims they have a right or privilege based upon some particular genetic profile (aka "blood quantum") that exceeds the rights or privileges of people not having the same genetic profile, is, by definition racist. They're claiming their "race" entitles them to something more than people who are not of that "race". And that's exactly what those people are claiming. All the legal hoops have been successfully navigated by TMT. All the legal maneuvers by the superstitious racists have failed. Now they claim the superlegal right to break the law because of their genetic profile, making them above the law that would apply to anyone else. Anyone here really think that if a group of 2A open carry advocates blocked any public street because our right to carry is obviously violated by the state/counties of Hawaii that we'd still be sitting in the street 9 days later? We'd be removed, arrested, and possibly jailed within 10 minutes. I don't see how anyone could seriously claim that what is happening, allowing them to continue to violate the law, could be anything but preferential treatment based upon their claimed "race" and their claimed victimhood as such.
A poll (
https://www.scribd.com/document/374711098/The-Hawaii-Poll-March-2018-TMT#download&from_embed) showed that, among voters, the total public favors the TMT by 77%, to 15% oppose, to 7% undecided. Among people who identified as Hawaiian it was 72% support, 23% oppose, 5% undecided. If you have a more recent poll, or one with a better methodology, please share it with us.