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Far-right council members in Huntington Beach introduce agenda item to switch focus to US wars and America’s independence
The southern California city of Huntington Beach, a bastion of conservative voters, has made the move to block diverse monthlong celebrations of Black history, women’s history and Pride, in favor of observing the revolutionary and civil wars, California’s history and America’s independence.
An agenda item introduced on 19 December forbids any programming that pertains to previously established honorary celebrations for women, people of color and LGBTQ+ groups from taking place on city-owned property, including libraries, or of being featured in city communications such as social media posts, according to Natalie Moser, a city council member who voted against the action.
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Ok, so long as you kill st. Patrick’s Day and Christmas parades, but I know they won’t because those are white celebrations.
No Easter, Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving will be covered by American indpendence clause.
Even tho we all know it celebrates being dependant upon the natives.
I genuinely hope they pass the bill.
Imagine how fucking easy that discrimination lawsuit would be lmao.
If I didn’t know how fucking stupid conservatives were, this would look like an inside job designed to bankrupt the city.
Switch focus to US wars
Because if you thought the kids hated America when they found out about the racism and sexism, wait till they find out about My Lai and Haditha.
No no, we don’t talk about those only the wars we won like WW1, WW2, and the War of Northern Aggression. The last one we want to focus on the states rights, beat that point home.
Oh yeah?! Well I’m gonna celebrate women, blacks, and gays even HARDER!
Bet you NAZI parades will be permitted
They tried it in response to BLM protests, buddy of mine busted their embarrassment of a leader’s pencil thin lips with a fresh knuckle sandwich when they threw a soda on him.
they didn’t say that side of the war wasn’t allowed
Gonna just guess they’re in the “Civil war was about state’s rights and nothing else” department, and thats the only reason they can stomach celebrating it.
State’s rights to do what?
Reminder that the Confederate constitution explicitly forbade states from banning slavery. It wasn’t about states’ rights at all, even in a bad way.
To add to this, during their various debates and declarations, state legislatures of Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia all explicitly gave slavery as the primary reason for their attempt to destroy the United States government. So literally more than half.
Aside from the declarations of secession you noted, who can forget the Cornerstone Speech where the then Vice President of the CSA stated
Our new government['s]…foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition.
then you’ve got the whole creation of West Virginia thing…
So they are bringing back the annual 4th of July parade and neo-Nazi riot?
And no one inside city limits with skin darker than a peach better leave before the sun goes down.
I suspect you may be eating your peaches before they’re fully ripe, just saying.
I don’t think I am.
Does that look as dark as the average black person’s skin?
Inwas thinking the red on the peaches skin, I like mine to be ripened to mostly-red
Haha. They’re just pissy their House Rep. is Katie Porter.
If they plan on incorporating the content usually talked about for those programmes into the usual history curriculum, then sure - I am for all this.
But if they’re just gonna censor and whitewash history then fuuuuuuuuck no please.
Yes. What Americans need is MORE time spent thinking about America.
Nee-haw.
Instead of hating on everybody else, why don’t they have a White middle to lower class, fucked by the man Parade. Its not like we all don’t know what it feels like.
