Merry Fucking Christmas
This “War on Christmas” bullshit would be amusing if it weren’t so fucking scary. This aggrieved/oppressed majority stuff doesn’t just smack of fascism, it is fascism. How did Adolph Hitler get World War II started? By running around claiming that German-speaking people in Czechoslovakia were being persecuted. It was bullshit, but the Brits let Hitler carve up Czechoslovakia in the hopes of mollifying him. And then what did Hitler do? He claimed that all those poor German-speaking people in Poland were oppressed too, and invaded Poland, which launched WWII. So let’s not be too amused by O’Reilly’s “War on Christmas” act. It’s deeply creepy, and it stokes the Christian Right’s bizarre belief/assertion that Christians in America are an oppressed majority. And if we appease the fundies on this, they’ll just demand more.
The proof of their oppression, disturbingly enough, is the existence of Americans who aren’t Christians. We say “Happy Holidays” because there’s a whole lot of holidays stacked up at the end of the yearChristmas, New Year’s Eve, Hanukah, Ramadan, and that goofy new kid on the block, Kwannza. The “War on the `War on Christmas’” is about a majority seeking to eradicate public tolerance for, or evidence of, the existence or rights of the minority groups with which it shares this country. It’s cute and funny now, and O’Reilly’s a blowhard and a gasbag, but it’s one small step down a road that’s lead to gas chambers in the past.
But, hey, let’s all salute ChristmasMerry Christmas, Bill!
Stiff-armed salutes, of course, are preferred. Next year they may be mandatory.
And it has become pretty general. Last Christmas most people had a hard time finding Christmas cards that indicated in any way that Christmas commemorated Someone's Birth. Easter they will have the same difficulty in finding Easter cards that contain any suggestion that Easter commemorates a certain event. There will be rabbits and eggs and spring flowers, but a hint of the Resurrection will be hard to find. Now, all this begins with the designers of the cards.
Bill O'Reilly? Sean Hannity? Nope! It's Henry Ford
in "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem", written in 1921.
Over the top Nazi comparisons aren't necessary - THEY BEAT YOU TO IT.