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

On Jul 20, 2025 at 11:20:16 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

On 7/20/2025 1:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  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.

>
"...had..."

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