Oh, PUH-leeeze!
Aug. 16th, 2006 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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fanthropology of all places has hijacked a thread on use of religion in Harry Potter fanon with what are doubtless the first shots fired in this year's "War on Christmas."
Mind you, when called out on the sentence It's now ILLEGAL to say "Merry Christmas" for public adverts on TV, radio, and print, his/her response was should have been more clear. What was typed was perfectly clear. It was also perfectly wrong.
I know that the Christmas sales season creeps earlier every year, but August is way too early to be dealing with this crap. Can we at least get the temperature below 80 before we have to deal with this year's round of OMGWTFXMAS!!!! or whatever it's going to be dubbed this next joyous holiday season?
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twistedchick has a troll who has "rebutted" her link to Alas, A Blog's Male Privilege Checklist with the "Nice Guy's Rebuttal," which includes, among other things, a complaint that women shouldn't bitch about being passed over for jobs and promotions because of their gender when they can use their sex appeal (or straight out sex) to get work. No, I'm not direct linking, I'm not going to encourage the hits on that website. Check TC's comments, unless she pulls that one.
fanthropology of all places has hijacked a thread on use of religion in Harry Potter fanon with what are doubtless the first shots fired in this year's "War on Christmas." Mind you, when called out on the sentence It's now ILLEGAL to say "Merry Christmas" for public adverts on TV, radio, and print, his/her response was should have been more clear. What was typed was perfectly clear. It was also perfectly wrong.
I know that the Christmas sales season creeps earlier every year, but August is way too early to be dealing with this crap. Can we at least get the temperature below 80 before we have to deal with this year's round of OMGWTFXMAS!!!! or whatever it's going to be dubbed this next joyous holiday season?
ETA: What is it today, Schmucks on LJ on Parade? Now
twistedchick has a troll who has "rebutted" her link to Alas, A Blog's Male Privilege Checklist with the "Nice Guy's Rebuttal," which includes, among other things, a complaint that women shouldn't bitch about being passed over for jobs and promotions because of their gender when they can use their sex appeal (or straight out sex) to get work. No, I'm not direct linking, I'm not going to encourage the hits on that website. Check TC's comments, unless she pulls that one.
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Date: 2006-08-16 10:10 pm (UTC)The REAL attack on Christmas is coming from people like you. I used to enjoy wishing people a Merry Christmas, even though I am not myself Christian; it was a nice way to celebrate religious diversity and spread a little good cheer at the same time.
I can't do that any more. Why not? Because of people like you; saying "Merry Christmas" is now identifying yourself as a whackjob religious nutcase. Way to go, asshole -- by trying to hijack the phrase for yourselves, you've succeeded only in making it actively repugnant to anyone with a shred of decency.
Don't like being called a whackjob religious nutcase? There's an easy fix for that problem: stop acting like one. Stop repeating lies created out of whole cloth by people who only want your money. Stop trying to steal Christmas, and the spirit of giving, and Christianity itself, for your own selfish purposes. Go and actually READ the words of Jesus Christ, and follow them... because right now, you're squarely aligned with the Pharisees. If Jesus were to actually come back today and see what people like you are doing in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.