13th December 2008, 9:47 PM
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-s...-christmas
This article traces it back to fears of jews and immigrants... Hmm...
To be honest, I have no idea why people are terrified of some sort of evil banishment of Christmas. People celebrate it year after year. The worst is when people think that phrases like "Happy Holidays" somehow are threatening. The intellectual dishonesty is striking when they try to say that people are being PREVENTED from saying Merry Christmas, which is simply not the case.
It's also worth noting that the very same people who tend to fear Christmas are usually against marketplace regulation, until the stores they visit stop catering to their own whims, then suddenly they want them regulated to force them to say Merry Christmas and if there aren't two Santas for every Manora, there's evil afoot!
Oh, Merry Melodies everyone!
This article traces it back to fears of jews and immigrants... Hmm...
To be honest, I have no idea why people are terrified of some sort of evil banishment of Christmas. People celebrate it year after year. The worst is when people think that phrases like "Happy Holidays" somehow are threatening. The intellectual dishonesty is striking when they try to say that people are being PREVENTED from saying Merry Christmas, which is simply not the case.
It's also worth noting that the very same people who tend to fear Christmas are usually against marketplace regulation, until the stores they visit stop catering to their own whims, then suddenly they want them regulated to force them to say Merry Christmas and if there aren't two Santas for every Manora, there's evil afoot!
Oh, Merry Melodies everyone!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)