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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is st Patrick’s day a white holiday? I see black people drinking beer and wearing green. Are POCs also not allowed to celebrate Halloween (also from Ireland) or Valentine’s Day too??

What Trump is doing is wrong, but two wrongs don’t make a right. [/quote]

OP didn't say that black people can't celebrate St. Patrick's Day.  They said that if we can't have celebrations, or educational programming that celebrates or teaches about demographic groups, then St. Patrick's Day celebrations should be included in that.  It's logical.  It's also a good way to emphasize that this idea that, for example, boys in school can learn about and celebrate the success of the Women's suffrage movement, and white children can learn about and look up to Rosa Parks, just like POC can wear green.[/quote]

Sorry but POC wearing green is not the same as white children learning about Rosa parks. False equivalency. Try again with your logic. [/quote]

Right, because one should be an essential part of education, and one is trivial one.  But disallowing the trivial one is a way to highlight the lack of logic in the terrible decision to remove the essential part.  [/quote]

I mean, but let's play it out.  If we're not allowed to discuss Rosa Parks in History Class because "DEI" surely discussing the Potato famine and English colonial attitudes to Ireland would also potentially be DEI?  Are we just teaching "everyone in power was awesome and no one ever did anything wrong" because to do otherwise is "DEI"?[/quote]

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