A 'War on Christmas' Story

[Nevilledog]

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Brian Beutler
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Incredible cast of characters in this story that will, in most other ways, be recognizable to American Jews who grew up in Christian enclaves.

A ‘War on Christmas’ Story
Who’s supposed to be waging this war? I have some idea.
nymag.com
7:30 AM · Dec 10, 2021

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/a-war-on-christmas-story-trump-tucker-carlson-fox-news-christmas-tree.html

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Some maniac set fire to the Fox News Christmas tree this week. Fortunately, the perpetrator was tackled within seconds, the fire extinguished, and Fox News personalities were given an early Christmas gift of a fresh new outrage against which to fulminate. “It’s a tree that unites us,” explained a crestfallen Ainsley Earhardt. “It brings us together. It’s about the Christmas spirit. It is about the holiday season. It’s about Jesus. It’s about Hanukkah.” (Hanukkah was very definitely not about Jews joining in non-Jewish religious observances, but never mind.)

Tucker Carlson had a different, much darker interpretation. “Torching Christmas trees,” he reasoned, “is an attack on Christianity” — not on all religions but on one religion. Having deemed the attack a “hate crime,” he proceeded to reveal a shocking fact: The Biden Justice Department has no statistics to tabulate the number of Christmas-tree burnings that occur in the United States. “The DOJ can tell you precisely how many Qurans were burned in the United States last year, but they don’t keep track of Christmas trees,” he complained. “Why is that? Well, because they could care less.”

I would hypothesize that the DOJ’s failure to monitor Christmas-tree attacks is explained by their extreme rarity and the lack of any connection to a hate-crime motive. Indeed, in this case, police said the incident “didn’t appear to be premeditated or politically motivated” — which is to say, it was not a hate crime at all.

Carlson’s dark insinuation that the Biden DOJ refuses to monitor Christmas-tree burnings implies, absurdly, that the department used to keep track of such incidents under Donald Trump before the liberal Merrick Garland regime decided to start covering up this spate of hate crimes.

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. It seems to me that when I went to Catholic school in the 1950s,

the nuns weren't crazy about Christmas trees, because they are a pagan symbol.

[world wide wally]

2. But do they keep track of how many Menorahs are started on fire?

[Sibelius Fan]

3. Does the FCC keep track of the number of lies Carlson spews?

[LakeArenal]

4. This Pagan is deeply angry at Christianity misappropriation of our symbol of the Solstice & Rebirth