Leftist shows bias towards people with Christmas lights

Tinker Grey · Dec 10, 2020

iluvatar5150 said:
Are conservatives incapable of mimicry?

C'mon. You know they can't write that well.

rjs330 · Dec 10, 2020

Desk trauma said:
It’s an exchange of, dumb, ideas not any sort of attack.

Trying to shame someone into stopping something they are free to do is an attack.

rjs330 · Dec 10, 2020

bekkilyn said:
Nobody talks like this unless they are making a mockery out of something or someone, which is why I'm of the opinion that it's a prank.

Are you kidding? There are leftists that do this all the time. Not all of them if course but plenty of them.

rjs330 · Dec 10, 2020

stevil said:
Is this an individual person in an isolated situation that you are now painting ALL "leftists" as?

I'm an atheist, socially liberal, perhaps slightly fiscally conservative. I don't care if people put Christmas lights up or not, I don't care if people have Christmas trees or not, don't care if people take Christmas holidays or not, don't care if people say "Merry Christmas" or not.

My mother is atheist and she generally puts up a Christmas tree with lights on it.
We exchange presents and eat lots of food.
Me and the wife we buy our presents for each other after Christmas, when all the sales happen.

I prefer Easter because chocolate is Yum, but at least Christmas comes in the Summer time and barbecues at the beach are always fun.

The words were used a leftist or some leftists. I don't believe the word all was used.

I'm glad you don't care. I think most are like you. But there are quite a few that are very vocal about things like this. It's not just about Christmas. This incident just happens to include Christmas. It's more about the demand From some leftists that want to shame people into giving up their freedoms because they might offend someone who has a different point of view.

Desk trauma · Dec 10, 2020

rjs330 said:
Trying to shame someone into stopping something they are free to do is an attack.

Even if you don't like it attempting to invoke shame is not an attack upon another its a cheap bit of rhetoric. One often used by preachers for some reason.

rjs330 · Dec 10, 2020

Hank77 said:
Such as this?
The letter, signed as if it were from Santa Claus, read, "Please remove your negro Santa Claus yard decoration. You should try not to deceive children into believing that I am negro. I am a caucasian (white man, to you) and have been for the past 600 years. Your being jealous of my race is no excuse for your dishonesty. Besides that, you are making yourself the laughing stock of the neighborhood. Obviously, your values are not that of the Lakewood area and maybe you should move to a neighborhood out east with the rest of your racist kind.”
Family with Black Santa display heartened by community support after hateful letter

See, would YOU assume someone on the right wrote this or the left?

stevil · Dec 11, 2020

rjs330 said:
The words were used a leftist or some leftists. I don't believe the word all was used.

I'm glad you don't care. I think most are like you. But there are quite a few that are very vocal about things like this. It's not just about Christmas. This incident just happens to include Christmas. It's more about the demand From some leftists that want to shame people into giving up their freedoms because they might offend someone who has a different point of view.

I don't see how a person having Christmas lights on their tree can offend anyone.

Skreeper · Dec 11, 2020

rjs330 said:
See, would YOU assume someone on the right wrote this or the left?

Man the right must be bored having to grasp at straws like that.

Do I need to remind you all of the time the right cried about Starbucks cups? No? I thought so.

Arc F1 · Dec 11, 2020

LiberalChristian1980 said:
Of course it is. "Xmas" is a shorthand way of writing "Christmas" that finds its root in using the Greek letter Chi (X) to mean Christ in the historic church.

Xmas was started as a way to stop offending non believers. I remember when it started showing up.

Arc F1 · Dec 11, 2020

Desk trauma said:
It’s an exchange of, dumb, ideas not any sort of attack.

What is an exchange of dumb ideas?

Arc F1 · Dec 11, 2020

SummerMadness said:
Using language like systemic bias does not mean it is an example of systemic bias. The more people like this whine about the non-existent war on Christmas, the more they are easily tuned out. But these same folks already tuned themselves out when they latched themselves to philandering, unscrupulous politicians that traffic in racism and xenophobia. As always, people will celebrate Christmas as they do every year, without this fraudulent claim of oppression or hypocrisy registering in even throwaway conversations.

Happy holidays!

Still in denial?

HOA Tells Family to Remove Cross from Lawn's Christmas Display

iluvatar5150 · Dec 11, 2020

Arc F1 said:
Xmas was started as a way to stop offending non believers. I remember when it started showing up.

Assuming that’s you in your avatar, you look pretty good for being 1,000 years old.

ximmix · Dec 11, 2020

And the reward for silliest CF topic goes to...

Arc F1 · Dec 11, 2020

iluvatar5150 said:
Assuming that’s you in your avatar, you look pretty good for being 1,000 years old.

Thank you.

Desk trauma · Dec 11, 2020

Arc F1 said:
What is an exchange of dumb ideas?

The letter that prompt the article this thread is centered on.

rjs330 · Dec 11, 2020

Skreeper said:
Man the right must be bored having to grasp at straws like that.

Do I need to remind you all of the time the right cried about Starbucks cups? No? I thought so.

I remember. It was dumb.

essentialsaltes · Dec 11, 2020

Arc F1 said:
Still in denial?

HOA Tells Family to Remove Cross from Lawn's Christmas Display

Amazing. Leftists control everything from CHAZ to HOAs.

rjs330 · Dec 11, 2020

essentialsaltes said:
Amazing. Leftists control everything from CHAZ to HOAs.

Are you claiming that CHAZ was not a leftist thing?

And the actions of an HOA are evidence of who is controlling the HOA. You are not trying to say that it was conservatives demanding the cross come down are you? Because we do it all the time. Right?

essentialsaltes · Dec 11, 2020

rjs330 said:
And the actions of an HOA are evidence of who is controlling the HOA. You are not trying to say that it was conservatives demanding the cross come down are you? Because we do it all the time. Right?

HOAs are notorious for objecting to all sorts of things, from basketball hoops to what color you can paint your house. Sight unseen, I'm willing to bet money that it had nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the HOA rules.

Tinker Grey · Dec 11, 2020

essentialsaltes said:
HOAs are notorious for objecting to all sorts of things, from basketball hoops to what color you can paint your house. Sight unseen, I'm willing to bet money that it had nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the HOA rules.

Yup. You're right. From that article:

The Board said:
The Board believes that the Bible is very clear on the distinction between these two major events in Christ’s life on earth. The cross is appropriate for display during the Easter season, but not as a decoration during the Christmas season. Unless biblical references can be provided noting the cross as a symbol of the Christmas season for the board to reconsider, the cross is not considered to be a Christmas decoration.

Not anti-Christian at all (however, despotic).

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