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Ask HN: Is your company giving you a holiday for Juneteenth?

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Re: Ask HN: Is your company giving you a holiday for Juneteenth?

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We have holidays that commemorate the birth and death of mythical gods. This holiday has merit. Try to remember the fact that we don’t have slavery anymore, and it’s a human right to NOT be one. It could’ve been you next.

We haven't done away with slavery.

https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploit...

Re: Ask HN: Is your company giving you a holiday for Juneteenth?

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I work remotely for an american company from outside the us and have no idea what juneteenth even is.

It commemorates emancipation for slaves in the US, and I would say most people didn't know about it until last year or so.

President Biden made it a federal holiday last year.

I work in manufacturing and I haven’t met many companies that are taking it off. I had hoped it would immediately be a paid holiday for most folks, but I think it’s going to take a few years to get to that point.

Re: Ask HN: Is your company giving you a holiday for Juneteenth?

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Your comment seems to carry a tone of dismissal, may I ask why?

Clicked their previous comments - they’re a neo-nazi Holocaust denier. For example, they posted this 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31722179

> Hitler is recognized and admired by many. If the change in world order happens when his significance is still fresh, he will surface back as a universally admired figure because it is not very difficult to piece together what the Nazi regime actually did vs what the Soviet occupiers accused them of (and what the US went along with).

And then they continue with pure insane Holocaust denial: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31728678

> The second world war was a biological war with typhus as the primary weapon. All of "holocaust" was Germany trying to quarantine and treat the infection... which is why SS doctors were at the frontline of it all. They still lost millions of people. The most affected were low hyegine communities who did not listen to government recommendations... but the 6 million number is downright retarded if you look at the population records.

Why do neo-nazis exist? I don’t know, but this person clearly is one. Obviously racists are not going to agree with Juneteenth.

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