Re: [OT] 12 year old British born girl punished for celebrating British culture

On 2025-07-18 09:36:03 +0000, The Horny Goat said:

On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:08:45 -0400, Rhino
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Her entire school had a Cultural Diversity Day and all students were
told to wear something celebrating her own culture instead of the usual school uniforms so she wore a dress that was essentially a British flag. She was an A student but found herself punished for her choice of clothing - along with other students - and her parents were called to pick her up early.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE2jV5qxE4g [8 minutes]
 Her parents were not at all happy and her community was very agitated as well. The school gave an after-the-fact "apology" where they promised to reconsider how the event was run the next year. I'll believe that when I see it!

 And if the school had said "you can't wear a flag that way!" you
wouldn't have heard that story - but they didn't and claimed it was
anti-everybody NOT born in the UK - and that DID make it a news story.
 I saw the picture of her and thought she wore it quite well - and
wasn't at all making it a parody (or a slur against those not British
born) as some have claimed.

Not really a problem of being a slur or a parody, but simply that flags themselves are seen by a small number of Politically Correct nutters as having bad symbolism.
For the UK's flag, they stupidly see a sign of the oppression native people in various countries that the British Empire controlled centuries ago. Similarly, in America the Confederate flag is stupidly seen by small number of loud-mouthed nutters as being a symbol of slavery, so forcing it to be removed from various places, including replicas of the "Dukes of Hazard" General Lee car (no doubt they also whined on about the naming of that car).
There are also people who complain about countries like New Zealand and Australia having the Union Jack in the corner of their flag, and trying to get the flags changed (at one point wasting huge amounts of tax-payer money on a stupid referrendum vote in New Zealand, which resulted unsurprisingly in NOT changing the flag, but still fools keep trying to push for a change). Then of course there is the complete opposite, where the Hawaiian flag has a Union Jack in the corner depsite now being part of the United States.