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).

 
They did:
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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.

 
 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.

 
They've had competitions here to design a new New Zealand flag, usually
the same old rubbish of a silver fern, a kiwi (the bird, no the
kiwifruit), or various versions of a koru (a Maori sylished version of
a curled fern frond).