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Please try to explain your post, it makes no sense to me.
What is the US trying to sell?
Who are the "Japanise" and what is a "sheick"?
Now now. Be a nice liberal and be nice to the foreigner that is trying hard to write English. I thought your party attempts to categorize itself as compassionate and accommodating? Show it.
Six Flags or other places can do this if they like,but seems kinda stupid to me.
For example if they have a gay day they might lose many christian's dollars.
Why go out our your way to court a demographic thats 1%,when you risk losing that..
Amount or more due to backlash.I like the idea of discounts for military,seniors,etc
But having a day for certain religon or sexual preference seems stupid to me.
Are they going to have a day for every single religon?
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Originally Posted by Jaymie
I think that was last year I think its 9/10 this year. At first I thought it was odd , I'm used to it now .
Guys, I am not Muslim, but did anyone bother to check the Ramadan calendar? I think Ramadan ends on 9/09 this year.
Could this be the reason why this event is scheduled on 09/10 this year?!?!? The mystery. And yes, if this is after Ramadan, six flags will makes some extra money.
I can understand if you are curious about the event. I can even understand questioning the event. But, why the stupid ignorant racist jokes?
Also, not all Republicans are racist. Most Republicans I know would side with six flags, since they often side with rights for the private business owners.
Though I do agree with many of the comments made by azriverfan... this may come as a surprise, but there are just as many ignorant racist idiots on the left as there are, on the right. Why does everything have to boil down to political party affiliations? Can't we make judgements based on our own opinions?
Damn, I wish I'd taken care to specify "private enterprise" in my post. Oh, wait - I did. Whew! - I could've looked really stupid there.
The Statue of Liberty is a public property. Six Flags is a privately owned enterprise.
True but the legal boundary between what is public property and what is private has became more and more blurred in recent years , with the government interfering in the conduct of private business , by for instance settin' quotas for minorities even if they don't match the requested skills and people getting used to sue for every minimal supposed misconduct.
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Originally Posted by gizmo980
First, we're JewISH teachers (I happen to be a Jewish educator), not "Jew teachers." And it's not some special "Jews get to miss work day," it's a sacred religious event (Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana - look it up) where the Bible actually states nobody is to work. Have you read the Bible lately? Not to mention, most of us are worshiping in temple ALL day on those holidays, not sitting at home watching Family Feud. Believe me, I'd rather be at work than fasting and praying for 24 hours.
We'd be happy to work on Christmas instead, if we weren't FORCED by our Christian-dominated society to take that day off... we have to use personal vacation for our sacred days, sometimes without pay, while we have no choice on Christmas or Easter. When I worked at a place that was open for Christmas, I was the first one to volunteer to work... and we didn't get extra pay, so it's not like I was doing it for the money. It was only a kind gesture to the non-Jewish employees, so none of them would have to miss their holiday. Would you have done that for a Jewish or Muslim co-worker? For the jobs that were on hourly pay, I would usually lose money on my holidays AND yours - and in school/college I would end up behind from missing a day of lectures & assignments. So you're actually getting the better deal, where (as usual) the non-Christians get the short end of the stick. Try educating yourself before making such an ignorant comment next time.
America is not a "Christian-dominated society" , there's official separation between state and church , and it's even forbidden to display in public christian symbols to not "offend" non-christians.
It's simply happened that USA was founded and settled by Christian people so since the very first day of the colonization Sunday was chosen as the day off by default and still today the vast majority of citizens is Christian.
If you lived in say Morocco or Tunisia then you would have Friday as the day off since they're countries founded by Muslims and if you lived in Israel then Saturnday since it's a Jewish state.
I don't understand why you are complaining , you are the follower of minority religion , you cannot expect the state accommodate everyone personal needs , it wouldn't work , image if muslim workers were allowed to stop doin' work and pray 2-3 times...
How can you have Muslim Day if you can't have Christian Day or any other creed/race/religious day?
This whole thing is just ridiculous.
I must have missed something, didn't want to go back and read 9 pages.....did a judge say they couldn't have a "Christian Day Six Flags"? I see Christian-related events at baseball games all the time...not sure I'd really have an issue with a muslim day at the ballpark...it's a free country and if you don't like it, you don't have to support that organization.
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Believe me, I'd rather be at work than fasting and praying for 24 hours.
