cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/50452800
St. Patrick’s Day parade cancled in florida because of anti-inclusivity law (DEI)
The announcement drew frustration from people who viewed the parade as a cherished community gathering.
That’s what Pride is, it’s just not your community. Sorry you voted against your own interests like everyone said you were doing.
I was worried that people had forgotten to hate the Irish.
So the hateful current in American politics turned on the irish? Oh no, if only there had been some precedent for that. Or maybe if the pragmatist current had warned anyone that hate was bad…
Nope, they don’t lose their minds. They had already lost it when they voted for it.
Delray Beach is a very Democratic city.
I would like to ask you to stop whatever else you are doing at the moment so you can think critically, and ask yourself “If Desantis signed this measure into effect then did Delray Beach being Democrat leaning add anything of value to this discussion?”. I’m not sure that’s the gotcha you may have expected that to be?
“they voted for it”
Del Ray beach most certainly did not. Florida is a huge state, our third most populous. We are not all on the same page.
DeSatan decreed thus. No more DEI, including DEIties like Jesus Christ! You’re only allowed to say Happy Holidays from now on!
They took Christmas away from us?!? 😡
Amazing. Wouldn’t this law, in fact, prohibit local governments from funding Independence Day celebrations, since that is associated with American ethnicity?
This law doesn’t apply to federal holidays.
The US doesn’t recognize an American ethnicity, it’s only a nationality officially.
The way the US recognizes (or doesn’t) different people is always ass backwards and reeks of xenophobia. Signed, a tan latina who never knows how TF to respond to those forms.
The legal definition of hispanic is literally “almost everyone who claims to be Hispanic is and it includes no one who doesn’t”
I think you’re supposed to put “Caucasian” since the definitions of ethnicities is wonky. Like people from the middle east are legally Caucasian, because a judge was too scared to say that Jesus wasn’t white lol
But you could be an indigenous American too if you want. You have a fair claim as a Latina
Not like anyone is really going to verify it, and if they do the slightest justification will hold up. Like you said, the whole system is wonky and has that old school race science feel
It’s primarily because the US was not designed to be tied to ethnicity (on paper) unlike most other countries at the time. Like The United Kingdom, it was a collection of peoples, not its own people. It’s like the difference between being British and being English. The former is a nationality that includes practically all subjects of the United Kingdom in the British isles, regardless of ethnicity, whereas English is an ethnicity from the Kingdom of England.
No one’s ethnicity is American, your ethnicity is whatever you (or your family) were before you were American. Hence the temporarily PC term of ‘African American.’
So we can do nationalities, not ethnicities 🤔
Any holiday of any kind should be banned
This is an interesting suggestion. I would be inclined to agree on the surface, but that’s because I’m a special kind of pedantically pragmatic individual.
Example: Christmas is a time to get together and appreciate your family. Yeah, well you should get together and appreciate and spend time with your family regardless of what flavor greeting cards happen to be on the shelf.
That said, there’s something to be said for having broadly recognized periods of celebration. Should they be as overly commercialized as they are in the US? Should they be tied to specific religious traditions? Maybe not, but let’s not ban all holidays. Maybe we elevate Arbor Day and get a week off work at the Winter Solstice?
Fireworks should be banned at least
This is especially delicious! My compliments to the chef!
So much for Octoberfest and Mardi Gras
