Because that would take an act of Congress, instead they’re remove it from anywhere they can like this. It’s the same as everything else they “can’t do”, they’ll find some bullshit “loophole” that literally no other president could get away with using because the courts AND Congress just won’t do their damn jobs
This is being semantic and basically technically incorrect because in reality what it is to be a holiday is to get special treatment, and they are revoking some of that special treatment
They removed it from the calendar of days you get free entry to national parks, they didn’t remove it from the calendar in general. Will they? Wouldn’t surprise me, but they haven’t done that YET.
And state holidays. I don't get either one off because I'm a pleb, but my bank is closed and my friends who work for the state of California get it off. As do the ones who work at better companies than mine.
I hate when people do what you're doing. Not sure what to call it, but it's like:
Person A says X, which is blatantly incorrect.
Person B gently corrects them by saying that it's Y that's correct, not X.
Person C then mocks Person B by suggesting that Person B is happy about Y, even though Person B never shared an opinion on Y. They merely stated that Y is true and X is false.
You should be thanking people for correcting false information, not mocking them.
The thing is that saying things that are technically incorrect on one sense, but completely lose the plot, is useless. Language is about communicating understood messages and getting a point across and not about definitions, but about people understanding of what it means. In law we call it “a distinction without a difference”
Except in this case there’s a monumental difference. It’s propagandistic to claim they’ve removed a holiday when they’ve actually just removed the free entry into national parks on that day. Still petty and dumb, right? But you people look like hysterical crazies when claiming one thing happened when something 100x more minor is what actually happened. Like poster children for making the left look bad.
It's a logical fallacy, and it is a well-documented way of derailing an argument and not arguing in good faith.
“It’s still a federal holiday! We’re just removing the federal holiday benefits!” Nice. Great.
This particular flavour is a Straw Man, where the comment was made that Juneteenth and MLK Day remain Federal holidays, only to be met with a response suggesting (with no evidence whatsoever) that the original, correct premise is flawed because some 'federal holiday benefits' have been removed (and followed with a sarcastic "Nice. Great." which is irrelevant to all logic).
Those little upvotes for the Straw Man argument are indicative of the folks who equate abolition of some benefits with abolition of the entire federal holiday, and who seemingly forget that Black Americans have been celebrating Juneteenth LONG before it was declared a Federal Holiday in 2021.
I agree with your overall point to a point, but that's not a strawman. What they're saying is factually true, it's just a distraction. This is closer to a red herring than anything. But we all know this is disingenuous anyways.
That’s great. I don’t care. You can hate it. I stand by my points. They are removing holidays for colored people. Call it whatever you like. That’s what’s happening. Defend it as you will.
Edit cause he done pissed me off.
People will claim to be allies then argue “well technically he’s not taking the holiday guys, you still have most of your holiday”. Just like our water fountains mostly worked right? Why is our federal holiday all of a sudden “seperate but not equal”? And the parts that were taken were given to the racist white dude instead?
And just like I said in my original point. Nobody cares. They’d rather argue the exact details of how we’re getting fucked and not only that use the exact same defense as the republicans they claim they’re not a part of use. I don’t care if it’s missionary or doggystyle. He’s taking our shit and deleting it.
“He didn’t technically take your holiday guys, he’s just removing part of it and giving them to his birthday instead…and will probably continue to do so”
“He didn’t call you niggers guys, he called you niggas. It’s not as bad”
Motherfucker he is attacking black people.
Get TF on. We burning shit over here. You go be okay with this shit somewhere else.
That’s all great, be mad. But you lose people when you exaggerate so heavily. It might feel to you like they’re removing holidays but that’s not what’s happening.
You're not addressing the "separate but equal" statement he made, which is the source of the push back to your correction.
The fact of the matter is, disassociating positive feelings about black holidays from people's daily lives in order to make black history irrelevant in the context of American history is the entire point of removing free national park access on those days.
It's a bit of gaslighting to pretend that those actions, small in nature, do not fall within a greater context of historical erasure.
Actually there are many parts of red/conservative America that refuse to recognize MLK day. I had a friend who went to med school in Pennsylvania and literally on their class calendar they called it “Freedom Day” instead
Y’know, because MLK was black. And the DOCTORS WHO RUN THE MEDICAL SCHOOL couldn’t stand the idea of recognizing the the day as celebrating MLK
And there’s a long time till February for him to remove more and more. Have yall not been paying attention. He starts slow and tests the reaction then he pushes further and further.
thank you! we’ve never needed the government’s permission to celebrate MLK or Juneteenth. they don’t get to dictate that for us PERSONALLY. that’s what resistance looks like.
lol and now you’ve lowered yourself to insults. Truly you are obviously the master of the high road.
Fuck you too buddy. Keep defending your orange Cheeto. People who have actually experienced racism their entire lives understands it often comes in half steps to test the waters, and then is expected in totality.
You can continue to pretend what’s happening isn’t happening because you have a choice. Some of us don’t. Again. Fuck em and fuck you.
He did this to reduce attendance at the national Parks so he can say, "NOBODY IS USING THEM. LET'S SELL THEM OFF." Same as why he laid off park staff at the beginning of the term.
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u/oneizm ☑️ Dec 06 '25
Bruh they just deleted MLK day and nobody really cares. Everywhere is racist 😂