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Diversity Day - Girl in Union Jack dress sent home

Jack by the hedge said:
Again, you can still write the story either way.

The disingenuous "all lives matter" kinda way, or the inclusive "modern, diverse and always changing / it matters too" kinda way.
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I should think the giveaway is letting your 12-year-old kid share a stage with Tommy Robinson in front of thousands of far-right thugs. Whilst for Courtney this is all very innocent, her father comes across as a nasty manipulative character. He should be protecting his children, not setting them up for opprobrium that could affect their career opportunities or lifestyle in the future. For Courtney, the fame and attention is exciting for now but she is too young to understand the repercussions of allying with an extreme agitator such as Robinson, who let's face it, is just using a 12-year-old girl for his own extremist ends.
 
I don't actually know what this event is which will feature thousands of far right thugs. Are the thugs going to want to hear that learning about other cultures is great, interesting and important? Or about how they should celebrate all cultures?
 
Jack by the hedge said:
As I'm not following the developing story other than as it arrives here, I have to ask, what is the GoFundMe funding?
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Her for some reason. Just funding her in general because she's standing up for the British people against the invaders and woke.
 
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The sad thing in the antipodes is that the Australian flag has been hijacked by racists. I don’t know what the answer is.
 
I think the same is true for most of Europe. It certainly is for Sweden - ironic, we've never been that into patriotic flag waving (unless it's midsummer, or football/hockey/any sport at all if we're good at it), I'd even go so far as to say it's kind of frowned upon, but now the far right wants us to "take back Sweden", apparently that means hitting other people, who look un-Swedish, over the hesd with it. Hitting them metaphorically, of course. Mostly. So far.
 
It certainly is so in Denmark. In my childhood every house with a garden had a flag pole, and on Sundays, the flag was up, which gave the holiday a festive look. These days, the flag has been hijacked by the extremists, and we have dropped the idea of getting our own flag pole for the garden.
 
Vixen said:
Sequel:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1966898982267040228
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Aren't they more or less all British children?

I don't imagine foreign nationals make up enough of the UK schoolchild population, to set aside a whole day for them to announce that they're not British.

Maybe our heroine should have attended in the livery of Scandinavian reavers, or of Norman overlords, or of Roman colonists, or Dutch holiday-makers, or whatever her lineage might have been, now that "British" is a taboo ethnicity.
 
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theprestige said:
Aren't they more or less all British children?

I don't imagine foreign nationals make up enough of the UK schoolchild population, to set aside a whole day for them to announce that they're not British.

Maybe our heroine should have attended in the livery of Scandinavian reavers, or of Norman overlords, or of Roman colonists, or Dutch holiday-makers, or whatever her lineage might have been, now that "British" is a taboo ethnicity.
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British is not, and never has been, an ethnicity. No group, be it ethnic, societal or religious can honestly claim to be native to the British Isles.

The English aren't from England, the Scots aren't from Scotland, the British aren't from Britain, but anyone that makes their home in Britain (whether by accident or design) is British (IMO).
 
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