• 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    NYC loves its parades. There’s the Puerto Rican day parade for one, that one is pretty big. I wouldn’t look too much into that aspect of it.

    Of course, fuck Israel nevertheless

    Edit: there’s so many that Futurama made a joke about it

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          12 hours ago

          There’s also St Patrick’s for Irish, and some Italian festivals, lgbtq parades, police parades (actually I think that overlaps with St Patrick’s).

          When you live in tiny apartments, almost any excuse to be outside is welcome.

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        14 hours ago

        Sure, but does New Orleans have a large jewish population? NYC historically does, so it’s no surprise there is influence. Israel can burn imo but I’m not shocked that somewhere with a high percentage of jewish people would have a parade in support of Israel, especially considering the work Israel does to push the connection between judaism and Israel.

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          12 hours ago

          Large enough that the lefties were split on Palestine and the local narrative was that wearing a Palestinian flag at a protest was tantamount to being anti semitic. But i doubt we have a huge population.

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            12 hours ago

            Apparently there are about 1.4 million Jewish people in NYC, or about 14% of the population, so yeah, it’s sizeable. I’m not defending them at all, it just grates me that people just gloss over what I feel are important details.

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      17 hours ago

      Most people only know about Puerto Rican day from the episode of Seinfeld that aired exactly once before being pulled for desecrating the island’s flag.