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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.