Media Matters for America has a nice piece on some idiocy from CNN’s Lou Dobbs (CNN’s Dobbs: “Happy Holidays” “exclude[s] everyone who is celebrating Christmas). Apparently, Macy’s has decided to use “Happy Holidays” and “Season’s Greetings” rather than “Merry Xmas” in their advertising. Here in New York, the only thing that should seem odd is that this was in any way a change. After all, New York is hardly perfect, but is probably about as good as anywhere in the U.S. about not being completely blindly Xian-centric. But, as MMfA points out,

Lou Dobbs, host of CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, joined up with FOX News anchors and conservative commentators who have alleged that Christmas has been imperiled by Macy’s department stores’ use of the phrase “Happy Holidays” in its advertising… Dobbs claimed that Macy’s department stores are “exclud[ing] everyone who is celebrating Christmas” by using the phrase “Happy Holidays.” Dobbs then questioned the merit of using “Happy Holidays,” asking CNN business correspondent Christine Romans: “[W]hat other holidays are we celebrating right now?” Finally, Dobbs concluded that Macy’s is “wrong” in assuming “Happy Holidays” encompasses Christmas… Dobbs made his comments directly following a report by Romans, in which she quoted a statement by Macy’s which conveyed the company’s desire to be inclusive of “all religious and ethnic celebrations.”

Read the on-air exchange he has with Romans; just summarizing doesn’t quite capture the nastiness of tone.

So, now, it’s not enough to make “the holidays” be Xmas and the holidays those few non-Xians might have that are close enough on the calendar generously be included (”oh, we’ll count Jew and Muslim holidays too, if they’re close enough to the Real Holiday”); now we have the backlash against even this minimal amount of inclusiveness and embracing of diversity.

The Xmas message for the rest of us: “Fuck you and your heathen celebrations; wish me a Merry Christmas or nothing at all, motherfucker.”bangla gai mp3 aami gaankhan mp3 aamiraan mp3 vrouwen alleaana dobara mp3enna mp3 aanantumhare aanch mp3aandre mp3 rieuaane wala mp3 Map