I Am Seduced By "Merry Christmas."

[dbt]

It's an unexpectedly powerful thing, this return of the White Season's Greeting. It's the Political Correctness Whipping Boy of the Second Coming of bu$h, isn't it?

To my partial disgust, I find "Merry Christmas" appealing. It takes me back to childhood, when white people ruled the world by Divine Right, Manifest Destiny, ad nauseum. "Leave It To Beaver" was the truth, as far as I knew. People of Other Colors and Different Beliefs might have had their celebrations, but it was the White Man's world and the holiday was Christmas. That's what was celebrated, that's what was marketed. And I was just a kid in rural Arkansas. What the hell did I know of the world, except what I saw around me? And what I saw around me was white and Baptist.

Goddess help me, but I have never quite been comfortable with "Season's Greetings" and/or "Happy Holidays." I don't even remember when these phrases began to replace MC on the TV and in the stores, but it aggravated my intolerance for Newspeak. Why won't those TV people call it what it is? was always my unspoken thought.

Of course, I knew that the "Happy Holidays" thing was simply an acknowledgement that there are other cultures' celebrations that need to be acknowledged and respected (unless one is Wiccan or Pagan). But I have also known since I was seven years old that Christmas is WAY more about Santa Claus than it is about that Jesus fellow. St. Nick got the majority of face time; Baby Jesus was an afterthought.

The sudden reappearance of "Merry Christmas" (perpetrated by the bootlicking, bu$h-serving media) is, at once, a comforting and evil thing. Damned if that phrase is not trying to turn the clock back to Ozzie and Harriet--and damned if it's not soothing and reassuring to my inner child!

Maybe what I began to think when I was twelve will see me through this new crisis: Fuck Christmas. It's a scam to get you to spend money on people who will be mean to you the rest of the year.

Damned if DU ain't as good as shrink and a whole lot cheaper!

Merry Whatever,
:evilgrin:
dbt

[xchrom]

1. i say merry christmas

and i say happy holidays.
it's just a grand festive time of year.
i even appreciate some straight folks sense of camp and kitsch.
and that's a rare event.

[AliciaKeyedUp]

5. I say Merry Christmas

It is the holiday I celebrate. If you celebrate another, feel free to wish me back with your tradition.

[flordehinojos]

2. the christian right has so polluted the concept of Christ andChristmas and

Christian .... it has so muddied up the truth about PEACE and FORGIVENESS and about JOY TO THE WORLD that when the world is bleeding so; when GWB celebrates his browning of America and the world rather than the true spirit of Christmas which is Christ; when POPPY BUSH can smile that half baked smile of his and force a little black boy to say that GWB is, "THE PRESIDENT" ... I find that there is little JOY in my heart for Christmas' celebration; little cause for the celebration of the many bullets that are killing so many innocents and making the bushes and their cronies sooo incredibly rich at the expense of so much blood and so many lives. Bullets and GWB have overtaken the SEASON of ADVENT. They have sent Christmas and the birth of Christ back to the cave. Christ hides in the cave hidden by the fog of war, greed, dominion, and power and control. Only through the north start of truth can you really find Christ, or, cause for the celebration of HIS Birth. Truth has been suffocated by GWB and buried by the media. We are facing the advent of a very secular coming New Year. Where will Christ be hiding and who will find HIM? Where art thou Christ? Darkness is engulfing the White House. It rules through the self appointed ruler in the Oval Office. He is spreading it around the world and on the globe. Where art thou, Christ?

[WildClarySage]

3. I alway smile at the bell-ringers and tell them Blessed Be.

They haven't a clue what it means, but they assume it means I wish them blessed. And I do.

[pretzel4gore]

4. the frigging nazipoos!

how the hell (my, am i in a goot moot this morning!) do they claim christmas ALL TO THEmSELFS?...irving berlin wrote 'white christmas' and he was a card carrying jewish boy! The shameless way the nazipoos wrap their stinkin' carcasses (yep) in the flags of goodwill and love of country makes me ashamed of humanity.....i think god made a fukking mistake when he kicked lucyfer outta heaven(?) So what if the created claimed pride in and takes credit for creation? That's just hocus pocus, and besides God's a big guy.....right? But when they start saying christmas is their, and defend it from the iraqi taliban invaders, and their liberal sympathisers (iow the good people) here in georgebushamerica, they're going too far. One expects them to fly the flag and shout 'albion, albion' as everyone knows that patriotism is the last refuge of scum.....BUT christmas belong to all people, as jesus himself said i think....