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

On 7/19/2025 2:39 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Jul 18, 2025 at 8:42:18 PM PDT, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
 

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

  On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:08:45 -0400, Rhino
  <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
 

  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).

 They not only removed it from replicas of the General Lee, they removed it
from the *actual* General Lee.
 If you take the VIP studio tour at Warner Bros., one of the stops is a display
of various picture cars used in movies and TV shows over the years--
everything from the many incarnations of the Batmobile, to the Scooby Doo
Mystery Machine and Austin Powers' Mini Cooper. They also have one of the
original DUKES OF HAZZARD General Lees on display,** but with no Confederate
flag on the roof, which prompted another guy on the tour to doubt its
authenticity. The tour guide told us that he'd been officially instructed to
tell people that it was never actually there (even though you can still see
hints of it beneath the orange paint) but that the real reason is that studio
bowed to political correctness when some guests claimed to be offended by it
and decided to rewrite that bit of TV history.
 (**There were actually dozens of General Lees used in the show, most of which
were destroyed in the various stunts. The one in the museum is the 'hero' car
that was kept pristine for closeups.)
 So to all those like FPP who claimed they weren't about sanitizing history and
that such things like the Confederate flag are fine if confined to a museums,
here's an example of how even museums are pressured to (and cave to) political
correctness.
 I'm surprised that even in re-runs of the show itself, they haven't CGI-d- the
flag off the car's roof (or even worse, replaced it with a rainbow flag).
 

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 referendum 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.

 A couple of years ago Minnesota decided to change its state flag for the first
time since it was admitted as a state.
 Here's the old flag:
 https://ibb.co/bjPhytNB
 Here's the new flag:
 https://ibb.co/nNtkJCwg
 A lot of people have remarked how similar the new flag is to the flag of
Somalia:
 https://ibb.co/k2jVGLZ7
 ...and how coincidental that is considering how large the Somali immigrant
population is in Minnesota and how Ilhan Omar (the congressional
representative for Somalia) is nominally from Minnesota.

Today, the closest verbalization of flag-flying is: "Proud To Be A...", where the thing one's proud to be was neither earned nor even avoidable.