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.

  • @[email protected]
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    896 months ago

    “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

    • @AlecSadler
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      86 months ago

      I love the connotations this carries.

    • @[email protected]
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      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]
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    646 months ago

    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]
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    566 months ago

    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]
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    526 months ago

    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.

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      256 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.

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      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.

  • AnonTwo
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    266 months ago

    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.

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

        • @potterpockets
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          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.

          • Stern
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            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…

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      126 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.

    • Uranium3006
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      Orange county is the NJ of LA and Huntington beach is the worst armpit in OC.

      • @[email protected]
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        86 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.

  • Flying Squid
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    126 months ago

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

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

      • Flying Squid
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        26 months ago

        I don’t think I am.

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

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

  • Handles
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    76 months ago

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

  • Poggervania
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    76 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.