Far-right council members in Huntington Beach introduce agenda item to switch focus to US wars and America’s independence

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.

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
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    11 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

    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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      11 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.

  • Poggervania@kbin.social
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    11 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.

  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
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    11 months ago

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

  • tastysnacks@programming.dev
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    11 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.

  • highenergyphysics@lemmy.world
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    11 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.

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
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    11 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.

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
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        11 months ago

        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@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          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.