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

moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 7/20/2025 2:21 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Jul 20, 2025 at 11:20:16 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
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On 7/20/2025 1:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Jul 20, 2025 at 8:08:39 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
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On 7/19/2025 6:16 PM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-07-19 12:27 PM, moviePig wrote:

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:
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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.

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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.
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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).

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They not only removed it from replicas of the General Lee, they
removed it
from the *actual* General Lee.
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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.
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(**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.)
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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.
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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).
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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.

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A couple of years ago Minnesota decided to change its state flag for
the first
time since it was admitted as a state.
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Here's the old flag:
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https://ibb.co/bjPhytNB
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Here's the new flag:
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https://ibb.co/nNtkJCwg
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A lot of people have remarked how similar the new flag is to the flag of
Somalia:
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https://ibb.co/k2jVGLZ7
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...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.

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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.
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Once again, you interject an observation that is not on topic or even
comprehensible to normal people. I don't know where you come up with
these. I can only assume this is some bizarre way of proving how wise
and worldly you think you are.

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Example:  Someone who's "proud to be an American" likely had little
choice in the matter and thus has little basis for pride.

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Of course they have a choice. No one's stopping anyone from leaving and
renouncing their citizenship.

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"...had..."

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No one was stopping anyone from leaving and renouncing their citizenship in
the past, either.

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Says little about pride.  Most live in the state where they were born.

 That doesn't mean they have no choice in the matter.