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Subject: Re: [OT] 12 year old British born girl punished for celebrating
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:08:39 -0400
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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.