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'Tis the season to boycott (The anti-Christmas movement has begun)
San Francisco Examiner, CA ^ | December 24, 2004 | Sabrina Crawford

Posted on 12/26/2004 3:59:12 PM PST by schaketo

She calls herself "Satanta." And she's on a mission this holiday season to urge people to turn a blind eye to those glittering mall windows, to forget about making a wish list, to just say no to Hallmark and above all, to resist Christmas.

While some people may think she's a Grinch, 36-year-old cartoonist and animator Nina Paley, mother of the Christmas Resistance Movement, says she actually used to be a devotee of the holiday. That is, until it let her down repeatedly.

"I love the idea of Christmas," Paley said, speaking from her home in Brooklyn, New York, where she hands out "Boycott Christmas" stickers every year. "I always wanted to have this perfect Christmas, and every year it would fail."

Eleven years ago the final straw was broken in San Francisco. Already troubled by the holiday's devotion to excessive spending, waste and tit-for-tat gift giving, Paley watched a debt-ridden friend plunge deeper into the hole buying guilt-ridden gifts.

"There was so much about Christmas that wasn't working for me that I decided to write the whole thing off," Paley said.

On a recently refurbished Web site http://www.xmasresistance .org there are print-it yourself "End Compulsory Consumption" posters and stickers available and a link to a French spin-off version called "Mouvement Anti Noel.'

"We're not really out to convert anybody. We're just here to support people who don't want to participate," she said. "We don't really think we're going to keep Christmas from coming."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: antichristmas; boycott; christmas; grinch; waronchristmas
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If the left can’t successfully eliminate Christ from Christmas, then perhaps plan B is to eliminate Christmas altogether. This could be the beginning of a backlash now that Christians are waking up this year and saying enough is enough. Something to think about.
1 posted on 12/26/2004 3:59:12 PM PST by schaketo
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"I always wanted to have this perfect Christmas...."

I'm thinking this is a big part of the problem.

2 posted on 12/26/2004 4:01:46 PM PST by Bahbah
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This isn't the worst of it in San Francisco. One bar, called the "Elbo Room," had a Church of Satan "party" on Christmas Day. This is an ordinary, mainstream nightclub in S.F. The party featured some woman named LaVey. (Sp?) Apparently her father was a famous (infamous) devil-worshiper. This stuff doesn't even raise an eyebrow in ol' Frisco.


3 posted on 12/26/2004 4:04:21 PM PST by rogue yam
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To: schaketo

How long has this woman been a desperate attention-seeking nutcase?


4 posted on 12/26/2004 4:06:35 PM PST by Jew4GWB (Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in.)
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The backlash includes more than just Christians ... Just about everyone with common sense believes this anti-Christmas garbage is just that -- garbage.


5 posted on 12/26/2004 4:06:46 PM PST by JennysCool (QuarkXPress has caused an error in QuarkXPress. QuarkXPress will now close.)
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To: Bahbah
"I always wanted to have this perfect Christmas...."

Yup, huge part. These folks, the ones like this woman, really have a great deal of "self Importance", don't they?

That and a whole lot of gall! Self Importance=selfishness personified!
6 posted on 12/26/2004 4:10:12 PM PST by gidget7 (God Bless America, and our President George W. Bush)
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To: Bahbah
her perfect solution ~ throw the baby out with the bath water
7 posted on 12/26/2004 4:10:12 PM PST by Zacs Mom ("In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Jefferson)
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One bar, called the "Elbo Room," had a Church of Satan "party" on Christmas Day. This is an ordinary, mainstream nightclub in S.F.

The name "Elbo Room" suggests to me that it's actually a lesbian bar.

The party featured some woman named LaVey. (Sp?) Apparently her father was a famous (infamous) devil-worshiper.

Anton Szandor LaVey established the Church of Satan in 1966 in San Francisco. He died in 1997.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Satan

This stuff doesn't even raise an eyebrow in ol' Frisco.

A more appropriate city could not be found.

8 posted on 12/26/2004 4:12:04 PM PST by Bryan
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Please take this as intended, since it's coming from a Jew...

If people would simply take a look at what Christmas is supposed to be all about, then this shouldn't be an issue.

Christmas isn't about giving presents. If it is about giving, it's giving to make things better for other people. Unless I'm mistaken, the idea of giving at Christmas comes from the belief that G-d gave his Son for humanity. For example, my family has a long tradition of volunteering at hospitals and at the Salvation Army, in hopes of giving a Christian a bit of time off to celebrate Christmas with his or her family. I think that even though I'm not a Christian, the "Christmas Spirit" is a wonderful and special thing, and if more people were to act on it, the world would be that much better a place.

I think that this lady really needs to see "A Charlie Brown Christmas," to see what Christmas is really supposed to be all about. Secular society has made Christmas the commercial event that it's become, and that seems to be what's gotten her pantied in a wad. If she would simply either celebrate Christmas the way it was supposed to be celebrated, as the birth of the Christ Child, or ignore it, she, and everyone around her would be a whole lot happier.

Mark


9 posted on 12/26/2004 4:15:30 PM PST by MarkL (That which does not kill me, has made the last mistake it will ever make!)
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"her perfect solution ~ throw the baby out with the bath water"

LOL, exactly. If she can't have it her way, no one should have it at all.

10 posted on 12/26/2004 4:15:58 PM PST by Bahbah
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Gee, do it wrong, then blame the holiday. Sounds like a perfect San Francisco type.
11 posted on 12/26/2004 4:16:22 PM PST by atomicpossum (I am the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.)
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Being a comic book artist and in that loop for nearly twenty years, I am not unfamiliar with Nina Paley. She is also involved with the Voluntary Human Extinction movement, which explains a LOT. She's always been a drama (or trauma) queen.


12 posted on 12/26/2004 4:17:29 PM PST by coydog (My bathroom djinn can beat up your bathroom djinn!)
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She has been living in Brooklyn for the past 12 years. Hardly a hot-bed of liberalism.


13 posted on 12/26/2004 4:21:50 PM PST by annyokie (If the shoe fits, put 'em both on!)
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"I always wanted to have this perfect Christmas, and every year it would fail."

Well, don't blame yourself!

At least she'll never have encephalitis.

14 posted on 12/26/2004 4:25:15 PM PST by jigsaw (God Bless Our Troops.)
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While some people may think she's a Grinch, 36-year-old cartoonist and animator Nina Paley, mother of the Christmas Resistance Movement, says she actually used to be a devotee of the holiday. That is, until it let her down repeatedly.

Nina also has problems with husbands, never able to find the perfect one.

15 posted on 12/26/2004 4:25:51 PM PST by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
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Actually the tradition of gift giving comes from the life of St. Nicholas who was famous for giving gifts and is honored by the Orthodox Church on the 6th of December.
16 posted on 12/26/2004 4:27:38 PM PST by peter the great (Bret Schundler Next Governor of New Jersey)
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She is also involved with the Voluntary Human Extinction movement, which explains a LOT.

It sounds like she is not exactly a role model for that movement, if we're still reading her whining. Leaders are the ones who go out in front, and show the others how to do it.

17 posted on 12/26/2004 4:28:08 PM PST by 300winmag (FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
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To: Bahbah

My thoughts exactly. Somebody didn't give her the perfect gift and now she wants all of us to feel her pain.


18 posted on 12/26/2004 4:29:34 PM PST by YourAdHere (Ask me about my book, available at Amazon.com)
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To: peter the great

Well, there were those Wise Men before St. Nick, but I guess the Orthodox remember them in January, not Christmas. Still, gift-giving could theoretically come from the wise guys.


19 posted on 12/26/2004 4:32:14 PM PST by jwalburg (Those buried included children still clutching toys)
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To: MarkL

I think you're absolutely right.


20 posted on 12/26/2004 4:34:35 PM PST by SedVictaCatoni (<><)
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