Florida’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has swept up a nearly six-decade-old St. Patrick’s Day parade, triggering outrage in Delray
  • TrooBloo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    17·
    16 hours ago

    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.

  • DomeGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    631·
    1 day ago

    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…

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    38·
    1 day ago

    DeSatan decreed thus. No more DEI, including DEIties like Jesus Christ! You’re only allowed to say Happy Holidays from now on!

  • Dadifer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    1 day ago

    Amazing. Wouldn’t this law, in fact, prohibit local governments from funding Independence Day celebrations, since that is associated with American ethnicity?

        • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          9·
          23 hours ago

          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.’

        • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          16 hours ago

          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

      • laranis@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        16 hours ago

        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?

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    23 hours ago

    Nope, they don’t lose their minds. They had already lost it when they voted for it.

      • gankouskhan@bookwyr.meEnglish
        23·
        18 hours ago

        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?

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          17 hours ago

          “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.