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Wal-Mart faces boycott for 'banning' Christmas
WorldNetDaily ^ | Nov. 10, 2005 | Joe Kovacs

Posted on 11/10/2005 1:48:18 AM PST by News Hunter

A Catholic advocacy group has launched a national boycott against Wal-Mart, claiming the world's No. 1 retailer has in effect "banned" Christmas, while promoting other seasonal holidays such as Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

But Wal-Mart tells WorldNetDaily it has "absolutely not" banned Christmas, but is just "trying to serve all our customers for the holiday season."

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas; US: New York
KEYWORDS: ban; bowdowntowallysworld; boycott; catholic; christmas; kneejerks; kwanzaa; storyiswrong; unionthugs; walmart; walmartisgreat
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To: flashbunny
For such an esteemed debater, and marketing expert, you sure resort to insults to bolster your (weak) arguments.

You admit that Christmas is not a primary search? Thanks!

61 posted on 11/10/2005 3:01:03 AM PST by twntaipan (Boycott Walmart--do your Christmas shopping elsewhere!)
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To: msnimje

My wife has gotten hired to work in the TOYS Dept. in Wal Mart. She was hired as Christmas help.
Trust there is no banning of Christmas going on there.


62 posted on 11/10/2005 3:01:15 AM PST by Gone_Postal (government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take it away)
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To: News Hunter

Not buying any Christmas gifts this year, making everything. Knitting and baking.


63 posted on 11/10/2005 3:02:53 AM PST by Dustbunny (Main Stream Media -- Making 'Max Headroom' a reality.)
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To: twntaipan
But they are demeaning Christmas as a holiday...

Excuse me, but Christmas is a holiday!

How are they demeaning it? By having offerings for other religions? By having a holiday page instead of a Christmas page that contains Christmas items?

I go back to my original post.....Wal-Mart did not drop the Christmas name overall or on specific items.

Your argument holds no water.

64 posted on 11/10/2005 3:03:08 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (9-11 is your Peace Dividend)
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To: twntaipan; flashbunny; durasell
I am surprised to find FReepers who agree with the pc junk Walmart has fallen for.

1. It is absolutely foolish for any company to believe that be appeasing the left, they will reduce their vulnerability to attacks from the left.

2. Christmas and Hannukah are religious holidays. "Kwaanza" is a political statement by race hustlers, felons and hard-core radical leftists that is being passed off as a quasi-religious, quasi-cultural, quasi-holiday as part of an ongoing campaign to undermine Western / American culture. Recognition of Kwaanza as anything else entails buying into the big lie.

3. Walmart's most loyal defenders and customers are the red state Americans who appreciate hearing the words "Merry Christmas". A thoughtful analysis of the targeted markets for expanded sales generated through "holiday diversity" compared with the lost sales of alienated core customers would suggest that this is a poorly thought-through strategy by our friends in Benton Arkansas!

65 posted on 11/10/2005 3:03:10 AM PST by Huber (Stop appeasing the left! After they take advantage of you, they will still hate you anyway!)
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To: durasell
You are mistaken. Search engines exhibit agenda always. Just ask people in China who will never find the word "freedom" or "democracy" or the like in Yahoo! or Google or MSN because of an agenda.

Marketers are people, with biases, likes and dislikes. Their agendas always come through.

66 posted on 11/10/2005 3:04:01 AM PST by twntaipan (Boycott Walmart--do your Christmas shopping elsewhere!)
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To: Huber

Well said!


67 posted on 11/10/2005 3:05:14 AM PST by twntaipan (Boycott Walmart--do your Christmas shopping elsewhere!)
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To: News Hunter
I invite Wal-Mart to do whatever they would like. I don't care as long as I have the freedom to decide whether to do business there.

I also don't care at all whether the public school system makes provisions for my Christian holidays. I don't feel any need for bureaucratic validation.

68 posted on 11/10/2005 3:06:16 AM PST by The Duke
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To: twntaipan

I don't see it. The whole thing seems like an awful waste of time.


69 posted on 11/10/2005 3:07:54 AM PST by durasell
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To: twntaipan
And of course there are the intentionally obtuse,

Better watch out how you use that word "obtuse", it got Andy Dufresne 30 days in solitary when he used it on Warden Norton in the Shawshank Redemption.

70 posted on 11/10/2005 3:20:56 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: msnimje

Better yet, why don't you do what I just did after I caught wind of this story. I went right to their web page and wrote a lengthy letter telling them that because they are bigots about the Christian holiday and instead celebrating a false holiday, called Kwanzaa, I or my wife will not be shopping there again.

Thanks for posting this story and God Bless.


71 posted on 11/10/2005 3:26:46 AM PST by rambo316 (They are not liberals, they are leftists.)
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To: News Hunter

well, whats the problem, arent chinese communist


72 posted on 11/10/2005 3:31:25 AM PST by Flavius (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
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To: News Hunter
A friend ran the search last night and came up with like 7,900 hits for Christmas stuff.

It sounds like someone, likely in a competitor's marketing department, decided to start an urban legend.

-Eric

73 posted on 11/10/2005 3:37:18 AM PST by E Rocc
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To: mlc9852
You don't think the Republicans should fight back against lies spread by the Democrats?

That's funny. When do they fight back?

74 posted on 11/10/2005 3:42:49 AM PST by raybbr
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To: raybbr

They don't fight back. That was my point.


75 posted on 11/10/2005 4:00:51 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: mc5cents

I'll be careful!


76 posted on 11/10/2005 4:10:07 AM PST by twntaipan (Does Walmart pander to the politically correct?)
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To: News Hunter
What people say and what people do is entirely different.  Money talks and morality walks.

Christmas has become a huge communalized industry and most, if not all, religious origins, history and traditions have been long forgotten by the new generation and their parents.  It's all about toys and gifts...nothing else.

Most parents would shudder at boycotting Wal-Mart if they had the only gay jihad Joe action figure in town and little spoiled Johnny would have a fit if they didn't get it. Furthermore, if the doll was sold at old geezers department store down the road at $25.00 and at Wal-Mart for $21.00, they would die before they would pay that $4.00 difference.

It's sad, but just about all religious aspects are gone from both Christmas and Easter to make room for commercialization.  

77 posted on 11/10/2005 4:11:38 AM PST by DH
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To: flashbunny

Wal-Mart bashing never goes out of style. I thought you would know that by now. ;)


78 posted on 11/10/2005 4:17:20 AM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: rambo316
Better yet, why don't you do what I just did after I caught wind of this story. I went right to their web page and wrote a lengthy letter telling them that because they are bigots about the Christian holiday and instead celebrating a false holiday, called Kwanzaa, I or my wife will not be shopping there again. Thanks for posting this story and God Bless.

I went to their web page and checked. Found nothing at all offensive when I put Christmas in the site search. Shame you didn't put the word "Bible" in their site search - before you accused them of being bigots. Or Christian books - returned almost 65,000 entries.

I suspect this story is just more WalMart bashing (and it's not even Saturday :) /sarc

79 posted on 11/10/2005 4:17:54 AM PST by Abby4116
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To: News Hunter

Boycott them all, any business falling in line with the Liberal agenda needs to be sent a message, a strong message.


80 posted on 11/10/2005 4:20:17 AM PST by TheForceOfOne
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