elizabeth-cooper OP t1_it7iu8l wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:31 PM

Reply to comment by jay5627 in Mayor Adams says NYC schools to add Diwali holiday to calendar by elizabeth-cooper

Yeah, no Eastern Orthodox Christmas? No St. Patrick's Day? What a bunch of racists.

bigdirty702 t1_it7pa3k wrote on October 21, 2022 at 3:14 PM

St Patrick’s isn’t a real holiday.. they have no idea over there wtf we are celebrating on that day. Also it’s about student populations. The south Asian population is quite large in the north east. Cities up and down the east coast close schools for Diwali. No point keeping a school open if there aren’t any students. Diwali is celebrated by billions worldwide..

jay5627 t1_it7jj8f wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:35 PM

I never called anyone a racist but I appreciate you putting words in my mouth.

> “It is long overdue to say to our Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Buddhist students and communities that we see you, we acknowledge you,”

This is a good thing. They should acknowledge/celebrate other holidays as well. So, the opposite of racist?

elizabeth-cooper OP t1_it7jxjv wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:38 PM

I'm pretty sure Russian and Irish are not races, so perhaps I was being sarcastic to indicate that there are a number of groups that don't have a specific holiday off and if they gave off for every holiday that existed, there would be no school ever.

They're not even adding Diwali to the calendar, they're swapping it out for an existing holiday.