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California town proposes ban on Pride, Black and women’s history celebrations (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 10 months ago (3 children)

“Since it is a seaside city, Huntington Beach has had tsunami warnings, storm surge (its pier has been rebuilt three times), sewage spills, tornadoes and waterspouts.”

“Large fractions of the settled delta are in soil liquefaction zones above known active faults. Most of the local faults are named after city streets.”

“Many residents (and even city hall) live within sight and sound of active oil extraction and drilling operations. These occasionally spew oil, causing expensive clean-ups. Large parts of the developed land have been contaminated by heavy metals from the water separated from oil.”

“The local oil has such extreme mercury contamination that metallic mercury is regularly drained from oil pipelines and equipment.”

Huntington Beach, California

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)

that place sounds real fun.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a reason lots of us don't swim, nevermind fish, over there. Go farther north or south, HB is a sewage stain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

don't have to tell me twice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuzzy duck. Ducky fuzz. Does he fuck? Fuck he does!

Thank you for reminding me of that lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

🦆

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

‘Something in the water’

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love the connotations this carries.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

That brain damage leads to more conservatives?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

That quote about heavy metal contamination has no citation. I looked it up and couldn't find anything info on it.

You can see oil platforms from the beach at Huntington, but they're not spewing oil all the time. The issue in 2021 was an anomaly.

There's no reason to act like the place is disgusting just because their city council is stupid. It's one of the best beaches in CA.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, so long as you kill st. Patrick's Day and Christmas parades, but I know they won't because those are white celebrations.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No Easter, Thanksgiving.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Thanksgiving will be covered by American indpendence clause.

Even tho we all know it celebrates being dependant upon the natives.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

wHy Is NoOnE mAkInG mY fRaPpUcCino?!?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Go for the trifecta!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Bet you NAZI parades will be permitted

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They tried it in response to BLM protests, buddy of mine busted their embarrassment of a leader's pencil thin lips with a fresh knuckle sandwich when they threw a soda on him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

they didn't say that side of the war wasn't allowed

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

State's rights to do what?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You guys need to spend more on education.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Sounds like the West Coast version of Florida.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think I am.

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Nee-haw.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

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.