War on Christmas? Or something else?

[flewellyn]

Yet again, this year, we're hearing the right-wingnuts spouting off about how the "secular humanists" and the "liberal elite" are making war on Christmas by saying "Happy Holidays", as if this was some crime. Right wingers are adamant that somewhere, there are "secular humanists" and "ACLU types" who are trying to oppress Christians.

Ignoring the fact that it's hard to oppress a majority that controls most of the wealth and power, I have a message for those right-wing idiots who are still going on about "War on Christmas":

People, please.

We know that you conservatives like to speak in code words, but you're not fooling anyone. You haven't been fooling anyone for some time now.

We know full well that when you say "secular humanists" or "liberal intelligentsia" or "urban elite", you mean "Jews", okay? Give up the pretense already.

And while we're at it, stop saying "welfare mothers" or "illegal immigrants", and just say "blacks" and "Hispanics". We know you hate them too, so stop trying to be coy.

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[epa-flip.livejournal.com]

Based on your birthdate, its entirely likely I was at GAC when your friend was (1997-2001). You probably just missed my brother though (I think he got done with school in 2003, but he didn't get there until 2001)

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

I took an extra year, because I had an extra major. So if he got there in 2001, I was there at the same time.

That doesn't mean I knew him, though.

[epa-flip.livejournal.com]

That's fair. While our colleges were small, they weren't THAT small. If you knew a tall Environmental Studies major who got tagged with the moniker "Sasquatch," you knew him, but seeing as he's a very social creature in the mainstream sense you and he may well have not been in overlapping social circles.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Sasquatch, eh? Hmm...I take it he was large and hairy and bearded?

I don't recall seeing anybody else who looked like me around there...

[epa-flip.livejournal.com]

That he was. As opposed to me, who is short and hairy and bearded (and thus am generally referred to as a dwarf in the Tolkein sense).