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.

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
    26·
    1 year 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
        15·
        1 year 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
          8·
          1 year 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.

          • Stern@lemmy.world
            4·
            1 year 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…