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 Trumps 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 belongingwho 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 ...
I can’t believe I used to read this magazine. It’s gone off the rails.
Why aren’t these bastards held accountable??
“...The noose keeps tightening. The effort is to paint anything to do with Western Civilization as racist. Before long, any traditional belief we hold will be labeled as inherently evil, and the only way to absolve guilt is to renounce our way of life, our country, our religion....”
Yep. It’s the libs/commie way of destroying it. And the only way to put an end to it is to put an “end” to them. We need to put the noose around their necks and hang em high. They need to purged and relegated as irrelevant to society.
Remember . ..newsweak company sold for $ 1.00 several years ago .
Goofy homo says hello.
Yet, these same Marxists don’t find excluding Christmas to be a problem.
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The day to celebrate Yeshua’s birth is not “christmas,” its “Tabernacles,” the day he was actually born.
Christmas as Roman emperor constantine declared it was the same pagan day he had celebrated all of his pagan life. Its the day that the new born babies of the temple harlots (that had been impregnated 9 months earlier at Istar by the sungod priests) were placed into the glowing hot arms of the cast iron idol in the fire.
If we’re going to fight for something, why not the truth?
Why not his appointed day?
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Truly insane....
She's not an 'author'. She's a lightweight holdover from the fading days of Odunga and HillBillary.
Cristina Maza
She might mature and wisen up some day, some year, in a galaxy far, far away.
Wait - newsweak is still in business? Whatever for?
Newsweak has really gone full retard, hasn’t it?
He really does live in their heads 24/7....has to suck to be them.
Newsweek went bankrupt and was purchased for a dollar.
Apparently by the biggest collection of kooks walking the planet.
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