Monday, December 29th, 2008...10:30 am
Understanding Republican Logic
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Being upset because a candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee is distributing a song called “Barack the Magic Negro” is “hypersensitivity.” Going into annual rages about a War on Christmas because a greeter at Target says “Happy holidays” is perfectly reasonable.
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December 29th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Here is my deal on the war on Christmas thing, I heard Glen Beck the trainwreck (his full name seriously) slamming liberals for not saying Merry Christmas?…… SO!–wasn’t that the whole point of leaving for Plymouth Rock in the first place? Bitching and whining about a non-secular holiday is as about as un-American as you can get. Do I run around whining when no one says “Sh’na Tovah” on Rosh Hashanah. At the same time, I’m never going to be offended if someone offers me a “Merry Christmas” either, I mean heh—I love being Merry, and it IS Christmas time. Who cares if I don’t believe in it. Conservatives piss and moan about some obscure ultra lefty in one of 10,000 public schools who will not allow kids to make construction paper Xmas trees during the holidays and now we are going to end Christmas?
I recently went to my son’s Kindergarten Holiday sing along; they kids sang one Hannukah song, (which is a rather unimportant holiday in Judiasm by the way) and 15 Xmas songs, and I knew ALL the words and had a good old time. Does that mean I am going to set up a nativity scene at my house and throw 34 years of proud Judiasm out the window? Get grip people, seriously, if you relationship with the Lord is true, your faith will endure.
As for Barack the Magic Negro?—dude if you can’t understand how that is offensive, you hold your own ignorance to be self evident.
December 29th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Paul,
I’m not sure you get it though. It is ‘intolerance’ towards Christians if you don’t greet people during the month of December in exactly the right way, using the exact same words that THEY use. If you don’t do that, then it is wrong, and you are smearing God! And God don’t want no smearing, darn it!
It’s hard to imagine, but it was not all that long ago that they were complaining about the commercialization of Christmas, how Target et al were costing us the ‘true meaning’ of Christmas what with Santa Claus, endless sales and commercials all over TV pitching the latest fad to your five year old.
But now they don’t care about that any more. Now it’s about saying, “Season’s greetings.”
It’s gotten so bad that next time one of these loony tunes tells me, “Merry Christmas” I may respond,
“I can’t– didn’t you guys just pass a proposition stating that marriage must be between a man and a woman?”
December 29th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
that is funny —but the faith thing is sometimes taken way to far, but the whole I remember being in Vegas one time and being handed one of those Prostitute cards and some super Jesus person got in my face about seizing tempations of the flesh. I’m like: “dude, I didn’t even know what the guy was giving me?” And threw the card in the nearest garbage receptacle. Anyway about 7 hours later I am about to enter the Studio Fifty Four in New York New York and who do I see walking into the GO-GO bar next door? you guessed it, ‘tempations of the flesh guy’. Congrats bro–you just ruined evangelical integrity for all of us……
December 29th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
You threw away a stripper trading card??? You never know how valuable it will be in a few years. You are supposed to collect them and.or trade them with friends! That 19 year old rookie may go big league some day and take down a mayor, congressman, or even the Governor of New York! It would like having GOLD in your hand!!
Happy Holidays!
December 29th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
This year, whenever somebody wished me a Merry Christmas, I wished them a Happy Hannukah right back. For those who didn’t get it and laugh and apologize right away, I just looked back at them with equal confusion and said, “oh, I thought we were wishing each other a joyful celebration of holidays we don’t celebrate. I thought that was a thing you were doing.” That usually lead to at least a smile.
As a Jew born on Christmas Eve, I have a complicated relationship with this time of year, but have decided to make light of unintentional insensitivity and use it as a teaching moment.
December 30th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Michael–did you even see the SNL where one of the cast members was out in Times square on Rosh Hashannah waiting for the ball to drop? Priceless. Thanks for your story, I dig. Did anyone notice that Sean Hannity was named Media Matters MISINFORMER of the Year. Awesome.