Posted on 12/26/2017 5:13:14 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
President Donald Trump wants Americans to think he re-invented Christmas.
“We can say merry Christmas again,” he has said on numerous occasions both during his campaign for president and his presidency. “Christmas is back, better and bigger than ever before,” he told supporters months before the Christmas season.
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But critics counter that Trump is promoting a version of the holidays that excludes members of other religions, and that his crusade to bring back Christmas is part of a larger attempt by the president to define America as a country for white Christians alone.
Wishing people “merry Christmas” instead of “happy holidays,” is thus in line with Trump’s decision to ban citizens of Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, critics say. It fits neatly with his refusal to condemn white supremacists when they march against diversity, and with his condemnation of athletes who protest police brutality against black men. With this in mind, the fight to end the war on Christmas is exclusionary politics at its most flagrant.
“I see such invocations of Christmas as a kind of cypher, what some would call a dog whistle. It does not appear to be intolerant or extreme, but to attentive audiences it speaks volumes about identity and belonging—who and what are fully American,” Richard King, a professor at Washington State University who studies how white supremacists exploit culture, told Newsweek.
“Much like 'Make America Great Again,' panics over the protests by NFL players, and the defense of Confederate memory, Christmas is a way to talk about peril, to assert a soft or hard version of white nationalism.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
The Nazis were PRO-Muslim.
Cristina Maza is an award-winning journalist who has reported from countries such as Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Lithuania, Serbia, and Turkey. She previously worked as a reporter for the Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia, and as a reporting fellow covering energy and cybersecurity for the Christian Science Monitor in Washington D.C. She writes frequently about international affairs, politics, global development, religion, defense, and cybersecurity.
She sounds like a threat to national security. Send her to Gitmo.
The real giveaway is the combination of the red and white suit with the black boots — all the colors needed for a Nazi flag. Coincidence? Obviously not.
Helen Thomas in waiting...
If you pay sales tax in the state of Washington, you are supporting this guy.
When you don’t have a serious or valid point to make, call someone a Nazi.
Headline sounds like a triggered 14 hear old gender non-binary Resistance zombie posting a fit on DU.
The only thing Washington state gets from me is the incidental, though not infrequent, fart in its general direction.
It is scary to think that people reading this would actually think any of that crap makes sense.
I vote:
No more Newsweek.
So Dick King is saying that Blacks and Hispanics can’t really be Christians.
He probably needs to jerk the microphone out of Tony Evans’s hand and announce that to the worshipers at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship.
So all heil santa! Let the true meaning of Christmas be known!
That’s great and it’s like Rush Limbaugh says these people cannot be parodied
No doubt that may very well be true, but I live in downtown LA and coincidentally wished a couple “Merry Christmas” as I passed them on the sidewalk near Staples Center and the woman turned back and yelled “F U, cracker -other-ucker! “
Just kept walking, shaking my head. Guess, I should have said Happy Holidays or Happy Kwanzaa instead.
Hilarious! Zanta salutes you!
You know, none of this ‘nazi’ BS is serious. Even the writers/instigators MUST know this! Surely that don’t believe their own propaganda. It is clearly (I would hope anyway) written just to create an emotional reaction by the naïve/ignorant (their readers).
“Heil Santa”
LOL!
Nope! Might as well parody ourselves and let them wonder if we mean it or not.
The reindeer were Jewish slave laborers!
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