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California town proposes ban on Pride, Black and women’s history celebrations

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.

halm ,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Psiczar ,

You guys need to spend more on education.

Zink ,

Yeah, we’re due do. It’s so depressing that I can’t even finish my crayon.

Paddzr ,

I thought the meme was that Americans spend mortgage worth of Universities already!

fubarx ,

Haha. They’re just pissy their House Rep. is Katie Porter.

Spuddlesv2 ,

Yes. What Americans need is MORE time spent thinking about America.

tastysnacks ,

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.

postmateDumbass ,

So they are bringing back the annual 4th of July parade and neo-Nazi riot?

meeeeetch ,

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.

evidences ,

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.

joeyv120 ,

Oh yeah?! Well I’m gonna celebrate women, blacks, and gays even HARDER!

meyotch ,

Go for the trifecta!

Poggervania ,
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

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.

AnonTwo ,

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.

HopeOfTheGunblade ,
@HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social avatar

State's rights to do what?

lolcatnip ,

Reminder that the Confederate constitution explicitly forbade states from banning slavery. It wasn’t about states’ rights at all, even in a bad way.

potterpockets ,

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.

Stern ,
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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…

lazynooblet ,
@lazynooblet@lazysoci.al avatar

Why would politicians ban celebrating anything? Like, fuck you, you’re not allowed to have fun

highenergyphysics ,

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.

cerement ,
@cerement@slrpnk.net avatar

wHy Is NoOnE mAkInG mY fRaPpUcCino?!?

spider ,

Sounds like the West Coast version of Florida.

not_that_guy05 ,

I mean orange county in Cali and Florida orange county. So yes we call it Florida City.

Uranium3006 ,
@Uranium3006@kbin.social avatar

Orange county is the NJ of LA and Huntington beach is the worst armpit in OC.

RubberElectrons ,
@RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

For fucking real, douchebros in board shorts as well as grizzled clowns whose entire personality is their no-pipes motorcycle, invading the bars and itching for fights with people from Santa Ana/Garden Grove (as long as there’s more than one douche for backup).

You heard me, HB clowns. Fuck you, I hope you step on a shard of flint, hard.

JDubbleu ,

As soon as I saw the headline I already knew it was Huntington Beach. Every few years they try to do some dumb shit like this.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

And no one inside city limits with skin darker than a peach better leave before the sun goes down.

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

I suspect you may be eating your peaches before they’re fully ripe, just saying.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think I am.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/873358d7-28cf-4c20-b038-57b49fb374b8.png

Does that look as dark as the average black person’s skin?

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

Inwas thinking the red on the peaches skin, I like mine to be ripened to mostly-red

ArugulaZ ,

Nee-haw.

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