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

On Jul 20, 2025 at 8:08:39 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

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:
>

  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.
>
>

  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.

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

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