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N.C. Apple Festival director resigns under fire: Joke referencing Juneteenth holiday deemed disparaging, fallout triggers departure
Daily Planet ^ | Wednesday, 06 July 2022 13:10 | Staff

Posted on 07/10/2022 7:21:58 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie

HENDERSONVILLE — The executive director of the North Carolina Apple Festival resigned June 23 over comments he made on social media about Juneteenth, according to the festival Facebook page.

The post on the festival’s Facebook page said David Nicholson, the executive director of the festival, confirmed the resignation of David Nicholson, the event’s long-time.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; ebonics; fakeholiday; grovel; hendersonville; juneteenth; northcarolina; politicallycorrect; virtuesignalerfury
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Director post proposed celebrating an “Old Fat White Man Day.”
1 posted on 07/10/2022 7:21:58 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I want to celebrate “Old Fat White Man Day.” When is it?


2 posted on 07/10/2022 7:22:26 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

We are in a war, and under relentless attack. We had better start fighting back.


3 posted on 07/10/2022 7:25:03 AM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Juneteenth does sound juvenile


4 posted on 07/10/2022 7:25:46 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SharpenedEdge

Appalachia is turning into Vermont, and most people around here don’t see it coming.


5 posted on 07/10/2022 7:26:51 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: SharpenedEdge

Yes, we are. And, humor is out best weapon. The left has many mentally deranged members. In fact, many governing our country have severe mental problems.


6 posted on 07/10/2022 7:27:11 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Yes, we are at war with the left. And, humor is out best weapon. The left has many mentally deranged members. In fact, many governing our country have severe mental problems.


7 posted on 07/10/2022 7:27:50 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Juneteenth is a celebration of inequality


8 posted on 07/10/2022 7:28:46 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Absent blood, the war will continue to be lost


9 posted on 07/10/2022 7:29:44 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: SharpenedEdge
We are in a war, and under relentless attack. We had better start fighting back.

Agree. People are so accustomed to 'life as it is', and they don't realize that without defending it soon it will become 'life as it was'.

10 posted on 07/10/2022 7:32:27 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: The_Media_never_lie

We already have too many race based or sex based “holidays”. It has become divisive and another reason to debate vs celebrate. Most retail stores and restaurants have not yet figured out how to bring it up in their ads.


11 posted on 07/10/2022 7:34:13 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: bert

The progressive elites have decreed Juneteenth a national holiday of major importance. While you are not yet required to celebrate it, you must not speak disparagingly of it.


12 posted on 07/10/2022 7:35:03 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The director evidently forgot the two rules when it comes to humor these days:

Rule #1. Politically correct jokes are fine, even if they are vulgar and actually not even funny.
Rule #2. Politically incorrect jokes of any type are hate speech. The teller of such a joke must be cancelled immediately.

It’s kinda like living in Brezhnev’s USSR. Straying from the party line won’t get you shot. But you will be punished in other ways.


13 posted on 07/10/2022 7:35:40 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real )
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To: The_Media_never_lie; Daffynition

The N.C. Apple Festival couldn’t happen without the dedication of the board members who serve and volunteers throughout the year as well as the apple growers, vendors, entertainers and downtown merchants that participate during the festival weekend.

“As a board, we were saddened and disappointed to hear our executive director, David Nicholson, made disparaging remarks on social media about the Juneteenth Holiday.

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So much for that Gala.


14 posted on 07/10/2022 7:36:34 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ . . . - - - . . . "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️)
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To: Ezekiel

As a board they are Cowards


15 posted on 07/10/2022 7:38:16 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: bert

Juneteenth should be marked as the day Republican troops under the command of a Republican president freed the last of the slaves held captive by Democrats.

Our idiotic Republican leaders should be emphasizing the political nature of that event. But I guess they’re too busy sipping martinis at their country clubs.


16 posted on 07/10/2022 7:39:16 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Unapproved humor is not allowed in our new socialist utopia.


17 posted on 07/10/2022 7:42:16 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: The_Media_never_lie

MLK Day, Black history month, and now Juneteenth, a little over the top isn’t it?


18 posted on 07/10/2022 7:42:27 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: bert

Belated acknowledgement of prior months’ Emancipation Proclamation where slaves ONLY in rebelling states were declared ‘free.’


19 posted on 07/10/2022 7:42:59 AM PDT by Gaffer (EA)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I’ve NEVER asked my slaves to pick apples.


20 posted on 07/10/2022 7:44:51 AM PDT by moovova
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