Woke civil servants blasted for celebrating US holidays
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WOKE civil servants have been blasted for celebrating American holidays. Officials overseeing patents in the Intellectual Property Office [IPO] have been marking Juneteenth. The event on June 19 commemorates the end of slavery in the United States in 1865.
![[An attendee adjusts his Juneteenth-themed hat during a neighborhood Juneteenth festival on June 17, 2023 in Washington, DC.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1865-union-general-read-orders-825735100.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
President Joe Biden officially signed the legislation that made the event a federal holiday in 2021. Staff have also been celebrating the United Nation’s International Day of Indigenous Peoples, according to the body’s annual inclusion and diversity report.
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It boasted that by celebrating these events they had “broadened awareness and understanding” across the workforce. The report said their Multicultural Ethnicity and Racial Inclusion Network also have plans to support Trademark examiners in handling applications with “themes of race, culture, or religion”.
![[Juneteenth Independence Day. Freedom or Emancipation day. Annual american holiday, celebrated in June 19.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/juneteenth-independence-day-freedom-emancipation-658655257.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The organisation previously came under fire for holding a talk on “intellectual property and queer theory”. William Yarwood, media campaign manager at the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "These busybody quangocrats clearly don't have enough work to do. "If these pen-pushers are able to find time to commemorate events that have nothing to do with their role or the country as a whole, taxpayers will be asking whether we need to employ many of them in the first place.
