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Yes, I don’t fail to pay attention to the weaponization of almost everything done with good intentions.

Just because you didn’t celebrate it in your family before it was a national holiday doesn’t mean millions of Americans didn’t for decades before and have worked for years to have it be a holiday nationally and not just observed in their state. It’s anecdotal and I’m only saying it because the way you responded but my family has observed it for decades - it’s nothing new and it’s silly to imply otherwise.

No, im not reading some right-leaning or left-leaning article recommend to me by someone being as outwardly defensive as you are being.

I’m not saying you can’t consider yourself the victim and think your values are being attacked. It’s weird and irrelevant to me, I have no idea what you’re talking about regarding that, but go ahead.

“Call me racist” - I didn’t say anything remotely like that. I’m not calling you anything, I asked a clarify question because I wanted to make an informed decision on associating myself with, using, or financially supporting anything you work on with Nostr, Coracle or otherwise.

If your referenced values have you act the way you are now, then I want nothing to do directly with them, or you, or what you are making. That’s all I wanted to be sure of.

A strength of Nostr is that we don’t have to agree with others wholly to support parts Nostr. Those of us who have values they want to hold true to have to be sure of what they are associating with or supporting, regardless of who or what those values may be.

Thanks for clarifying.

Take care.

My invective is not for you, it's for people who misappropriate and twist others' words. I'm not being defensive, and you don't need to be either. Both sources I recommended were not aligned with my bias because I'm not here to just confirm my biases.

> “Call me racist”

I say this because all the "antiracist" rhetoric, which Juneteenth was co-opted to support, is commonly used to call people racist when they aren't. I'm not suggesting you're doing that.

> my family has observed it for decades

This is honestly surprising to me, always glad to learn something new. I assumed Juneteenth was basically manufactured for the purposes of the democrats' bad-faith political agenda our of a very obscure thing.

But it still poses a problem, because now that the holiday has been co-opted, how can you celebrate it without affirming something you deny (I *think*, from what you said that you're not affirming "antiracism")? In many cases I suppose you can just not care, the political winds will shift and the bad-faith actors will forget and you can have your holiday back. And I suppose people like me who see the co-option and not the original thing don't help.

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