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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.