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.”
If that had happened in Chicago Or Boston there would be a riot big enough to impress the French.
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!”)
We steeped our tea in saltwater, holy hell I could not imagine them trying that in Boston
Rightwing policies have ironically turned them into “PC police” and “cancel culture” their policies were intended to destroy except for the opposite motive.
Is this malicious compliance?
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.
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.
Millions of Americans think diversity is just another name for black people. That’s how this stupidity gets traction.
Tbf: brown people too.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
