How the Left stole Christmas

American Conservative ^ | Dec 04 | Tom Piatak

[NC28203]

Christmas has been stolen? Hardly. In fact, it's growing. Retailers start putting out Christmas displays in October. Radio stations start playing Christmas music on November 1. Freepers complain about clerks that wish them Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas on a mid November shopping trip. If any holiday has been stolen, it's Thanksgiving.

[junta]

Some high end retailer is missing a huge opportunity by not exalting Xmas celebrations. Xmas is a time of joy and happiness and the rest of these "holidays" are little more than loser's laments. And nobody likes a loser, and people would flock to a place where people are having a good time.

[Kenton]

As the film’s director, Jonathan Kesselman, told the LA Jewish Journal, “I asked myself, ‘What as a Jew really pisses me off?’ It hit me when I was walking around a mall in December: I hate Christmastime.”

Back about ten years ago in a place called Solon (a Cleveland suburb) a number of very vocal citizens (who happened to be Jewish) began complaining about Christmas, claiming they were offended by any mention of it.

Now it so happens, that in the years preceding this, Solon had evolved from a predominantly rural Christian community to a suburban "bedroom" community with a significant Jewish presence; and the ADL-istas, the Christmas-haters among them seemed to speak with the loudest voice, and were visibly calling policy for the entire city.

After seeing Christmas stripped from schools and public places, one of the older residents went to a city council meeting and announced that he was so offended by what was going on, which he felt showed disrepect to his beliefs, that he would not buy any Christmas presents (or anything else) from local stores that he knew to be owned or managed by Jews during the Christmas season.

The news of this spread widely through the community until it looked like a grass-roots boycott of Jewish businesses was going to occur at the time of the year when stores usually make the most profit.

The following City Council meeting, a local Jewish man showed up in a Santa suit, with a "please, can't we all just get along" message.

Just to be clear, this isn't a slap at Jewish people. Just at the Abe Foxman-worshipping ADL types and the Christ-phobic secular humanists who insist on playing Grinch every year. And the message is, we ain't taking it anymore.

[Beth528]

I detest the ACLU and what they are doing to our country..I put the Democrats in the same category as the ACLU..I just have never been able to understand why we the people are letting them get away with this..

[churchillbuff]

Christmas has been stolen? Hardly. """

It would be more accurate to say that the word "Christmas" is being censored. It's becoming a forbidden, banned word -- at least out in the commercial world, and in public settings. It's a form of censorship. Instead of calling, by name, the holiday that 90 percent of the population is celebrating, the censors insist on substituting the generic word, "Holidays." I guess that's a form of "war," because war involves propaganda and censorship - but the censorship, in the service of propaganda, is what is bothering so many people, and rightly so.

[NC28203]

>>>It would be more accurate to say that the word "Christmas" is being censored.

Which government agency is limiting the phrases companies in the commercial world can use?

[churchillbuff]

Which government agency is limiting the phrases companies in the commercial world can use?

Obviously I mean censored in a sense other than "government censorship." You can't deny that the word "Christmas" is being supplanted by the word, "Holidays" -- in practically all commercial and public references to Christmas. I called it a FORM of censorship, and it is.

[churchillbuff]

As for government agencies, The White House won't refer to Christmas on its Christmas card. The only reason for sending out a card at this time of year is because of Christmas. None of the other "holidays" that people glom onto, in an effort to distract from Christmas, are feasts that have any independent significance. In December, Practically everyone in America celebrates Christmas; the White House therefore sends out a Christmas card -- but makes no reference to Christmas. This isn't "censorship" in the form of a statutorily decreed suppression of a word, but it IS SELF-CENSORSHIP under duress -- i.e., in response to pressure for angry and aggressive groups that want to minimize or even blot out the word, "Christmas" from our culture.

THis is the same kind armtwisted self-censorship that department stores and other commercial enterprises have succumbed to, in refusing to utter the word, Christmas.

It's like the proverbial Elephant in the Room that noone will mention. They're self-censoring any reference to the Elephant -- or to Christmas.

Another tactic of the Christmas-quashers is to DENY that there's any pressure on anyone to not say "Christmas." Like liberals everywhere, they lie and deny the obvious. Are you one of them? IF you're suggesting that the word "Christmas" isn't being subjected to a form of cultural censorship -- being blotted out in our public discussion by the new word, "Holidays", you're denying the obvious - and every reader of this thread knows it.

[MikeD]

That's not Christmas the retailers are promoting, but Giftmas. 'Tis the season to be spending, after all...

[Peach]

When was the last time Christmas was used in a card being sent from the White House?

I believe it was before Reagan. CNN discussed this issue today. BTW, not one of Bush's cards have mentioned the words Christmas.

Maybe that's because Jews, for example, don't celebrate Christmas. And yet I've seen you say the only reason to send out a card this time of year is for Christmas. Which is one of the more ridiculous comments I've ever seen on Free Republic.

[Thorin]

Very interesting story. Thanks for posting.