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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:
<https://southinpopculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/11403081_10204903151883828_3598410428185521451_n1.jpg> 


;-)



>> 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).