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A city in Florida has said it was forced to cancel its annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade due to anti-diversity laws.
The city of Delray Beach has also cancelled its Pride event in 2027 due to a state law signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis that prohibits local governments from promoting or funding diversity initiatives.
The city said in a statement that restrictions under the law “include certain programming and activities designed or implemented with reference to ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.”
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Florida hurt itself in its confusion.
It’s Desantis/Florida anti-diversity laws.
This could be in NotTheOnion. I had to check to make sure it wasn’t satire.
This could be in NotTheOnion
And through the wonder of crossposting, it now is! 🥳
You got what you voted for you fucking fucks. I’m gonna party. You can drink at home and beat your family. You’d do it anyway.
That’s just a Tuesday for them
But St. Patrick’s day is on a Wednesday in 2027
Rightwing policies have ironically turned them into “PC police” and “cancel culture” their policies were intended to destroy except for the opposite motive.
If it weren’t for projection the GOP would have no agenda at all.
i’m not sure “ironic” is the right word. this was always the goal. they don’t care about cancel culture in general, they only care about backlash against other republican losers. they’re just serial liars and they have always been like that. even when “party of small government” was their primary marketing phrase, they were still giving the government more power over individuals. it’s not really irony, it’s just fascists lying.
there’s a well known sarte quote about it, you’ve probably read it before.
They’re gonna be pissed because they wanted cancel culture just not cancel their culture
their*
If that had happened in Chicago Or Boston there would be a riot big enough to impress the French.
In 2020, March 17th (St. Patricks day) was the day Desantis initiated the “lockdown” and closed all bars and nightclubs for 30 days. Trump declared it a national emergency on the 13th. Maybe they really just dislike St Patricks day, because suddenly they were all about re-opening everything for Easter
You underestimate New York’s love for a good drinking holiday. We even have two St Paddy’s Day parades; one in Staten Island and one in Manhattan, each on different days so we can celebrate longer.
That’s legit as fuck, honestly.
I’m using my one-time Irishman Seal of Approval on this.
“Go Hiontach!”
(Pronounced: Go Heen-thuck, means “Wonderful!”)
Pronounced: Go Heen-thuck
Further proof that Gaelic is just a prank on the English.
Omg, you just made me want to move across the country.
Staten Island is effectively small town NYC. The biggest question there is “what high school did you go to” followed by “Oh, so then do you know…” Because you probably do. However, it is also still one of the biggest cities in the world with everything that entails.
We steeped our tea in saltwater, holy hell I could not imagine them trying that in Boston
Millions of Americans think diversity is just another name for black people. That’s how this stupidity gets traction.
And “the gays”.
Tbf: brown people too.
It still blows my mind how it was considered extremely racist to call someone “brown” when I was younger and now it’s what we’re supposed to say. Not as racist as the n-word, of course, but still very racist.
And women
And my axe!
Oh jeez, I guess the legislation left out the part where DEI rules don’t apply if a super-majority of openly racist assholes agrees that you’re sufficiently white.
I regret to inform you the Irish sre not sufficiently white.
Same as Italians. They accepted us when they saw they could turn us into more useful racists.
Sure, in the 1800s. St Paddy’s Day was made a national holiday as a sacrifice to the greater racists to let the Irish into the “white” club. No one gives a flying fuck if you’re Irish nowadays. Source: I have an Irish last name, no one cares or bats an eye.
I have an Irish last name but the town I live in is extremely old school WASP. A former manager of mine told me I should be marking myself as non-white on EEOC forms because of my Irish heritage. I laughed thinking she was joking. She wasn’t. Bit of a shock that someone still holds onto those beliefs nowadays.
Jesus
My dad’s a boomer named (something similar to) Pádraig with a stereotypical Irish last name. My siblings and I have more common English first names, but everyone except for me is a redhead. In the 50s and 60s, my dad still faced real problems (in New England!), including getting jumped a couple of times and losing out on jobs/housing.
None of my siblings or I have ever experienced actual discrimination of any sort due to having Irish heritage (again, New England, so it could be different elsewhere). The closest I’ve ever come is being earnestly called a papist, and people (correctly) assuming that I have a bunch of cousins. The papist thing was very weird, and it might have felt different if I were at all religious, but I just told them that I was actually Jesus* and they were too shocked to say anything else.
Maybe the actual KKK still kind of cares if you’re Catholic (but not specifically Irish- they’d probably be fine with Irish Protestants and probably wouldn’t be with French Catholics), but they’re not actually aggressing Catholics, they just might not welcome you as a member… anyone for whom that’s an issue is in fact very much the problem.
/* I very much recommend giving proselytizers a benevolent smile, and calling them “my child,” if you want to get rid of them quickly. The less you resemble their mental image of Jesus, the better. It works best if you’re familiar enough with the bible to quote scripture to them, but if you’re too convincing, you might start a cult.
I very much recommend giving proselytizers a benevolent smile, and calling them “my child,” if you want to get rid of them quickly. The less you resemble their mental image of Jesus, the better. It works best if you’re familiar enough with the bible to quote scripture to them, but if you’re too convincing, you might start a cult.
#unethicalprolifetips
People care, Fenian.
/s
Is this malicious compliance?
Any pride in cultural heritage that isn’t an unabashed, uncritical devotion to American patriotism isn’t of interest to the far-right.
Trump was the great replacer all along
Is Cinco de Mayo next!
No, they’re allowing the Cinco de Mayo celebrations to happen so they know where to direct ICE to kidnap and murder citizens. Fuck ICE!
I hope the people of Delray Beach people parade even harder, with a detour to the townhall with a thousand leprechauns then synchronously wiggling their naked arses in the direction of the mayor’s office.
The “concern” is that the law prohibits the government from promoting diversity-oriented events, not that it prohibits them from happening independent of the government.
I know–I’m no fun. I do appreciate that this is almost certainly malicious compliance.
As an American of largely Irish descent… Good.
Events that “celebrate heritage” serve to sew division between people, creating in-groups and out-groups. St. Patrick’s day is one of the least offensive of these because it is fairly inclusive. I have never seen any Irish person try to gatekeep the holiday from anyone else (i’m sure someone has, but it seems to be rare). Still, I think we can do better to have celebrations that are foundationally inclusive rather than ones that are just effectively, currently, inclusive.
When people see things as beautiful, ugliness is created. When people see things as good, evil is created. Being and non-being produce each other. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short define each other. High and low oppose each other. Fore and aft follow each other.
-Lao Tzu
St Patrick’s day is an exception to that heritage-specific division, out of pure success. everyone celebrates it and everyone seems welcome.
At least in the us. At least now. I have to admit to discomfort at a few of the things my Irish ex-mother-in-law celebrated though - there’s a long bloody history that should not make anyone proud
I have participated in several different cultural events and pride events. Never have I felt excluded regardless of if I belonged to the relevant community.
People are inherently different and I think a big part of these events is learning to celebrate that. I don’t think the idea of a melting pot culture is that everyone learns to assimilate, I think we’re just able to appreciate what every individual brings. You might not be interested in Haitian, South American, Chinese, or Korean food, or in listening to their music, or in learning their language, but seeing the community come together and be excited to share those things with you should engender feelings of closeness, not of othering.
Not sure what heritage celebrations you’ve been to, but all the ones I’m aware of have been super cool with activities to get non-natives familiarized with the culture.
As an Englishman, you’re celebrating how your ancestors survived my ancestors killing you on sight for like 1000 years my dude.
Within living memory English soldiers would shoot newborn babies in the head for being Irish.
I’ve got an American friend who married an Englishman and moved to England. She doesn’t do a lot of investigation on her own, and she had no idea why she and her husband encountered so many people in Ireland who were somewhat hostile to them- she thought it was just an unfriendly culture. She knew some things about the troubles and the famine, but not enough, and her husband told her the truth, but not explicitly enough for her to understand it (your comment is spectacular for that).
I gave her a brief overview of only the history since the glorious revolution, and she didn’t believe it. She didn’t think I was lying, just misinformed, because it’s just so shocking. I pulled up a couple of articles corroborating it, and she nearly vomited after she finally accepted it, but that could just be because she’s from a town called Cromwell, named after the demon himself.
I’m somewhat sympathetic, but as an immigrant myself, do your fucking research before moving to a new culture, even if you don’t need to learn a new language.
Wow. That’s such an amazing awful take that I can’t even come up with a suitable insult. Good job being genuinely that shitty
No. White people need to connect back with their roots and realize that white isn’t a culture. The melting pot is self colonization. It enforces the in-group/out group dichotomy of race that really drives division.
