By Charles Adler, QMI Agency
First posted: Thursday, December 15, 2011 08:00 PM EST | Updated: Thursday, December 15, 2011 07:58 PM EST
White liberal self-loathing. The guilt is just too much for them to bear and they want you to share in their misery.
They’re so concerned about causing offence to different cultures that they willingly push Canadian traditions and values to the sidelines.
And these modern-day Grinches have Christmas in their cross-hairs.
Their guilt trip has taken them to the North Pole.
Global warmists like Saint David Suzuki are using Santa Claus to spread their message of guilt.
They’re making a disgracefully inaccurate claim that St. Nick and his workshop needs to relocated because of melting polar ice caps due to global warming.
Christmas has always been a time to bask in Canadian traditions with friends and family.
But self-loathing Grinches want to spoil the fun.
Hey, Christmas isn’t the only game in town at this time of year.
Hanukkah’s coming up soon. But for heaven’s sake, that doesn’t mean people need to feel guilt for celebrating Christmas cheer.
In fact, Christmas is a time that all Canadians should enjoy.
For some reason, the Christmas fruit cake is getting pecked at by politically correct pigeons — because Christmas might offend someone.
What they don’t realize is that this gnashing of teeth — this obsession with avoiding offence at all costs — actually offends the majority of Canadians.
For those who think I’m being over the top, consider the posh Montreal suburb that decided to remove a nativity scene after coming under pressure from a Muslim group.
Quebec, the Catholic province, compromising Christmas!
Christmas pride is being washed away by an encroaching tide of guilt and shame.
Disagree? How comfortable do you feel bellowing out “Merry Christmas” to your colleagues at work? Or to the cashier in the store? You may as well be shouting out a racial slur.
Public schools have scrubbed Christmas out of the classroom and its spreading to school buses.
Diane Pope and Brigette Klepy, school bus drivers for the Prince Edward District School Board in Ontario, used to spruce up their buses for Christmas, but the decorations have been dismantled. And the driver’s jobs were even threatened over the incident.
Happy holidays.
Mark my words, politically correct stool pigeons are already evaluating the annual Santa Claus parade.
Scrutinizing St. Nick and his elves spreading Christmas cheer. They’re already worried about how horribly offensive such a gaudy spectacle is to people from different backgrounds.
It’s already happening in America’s heartland. The city of Tulsa, Okla., “the buckle of the Bible belt,” recently took the word ‘Christmas’ out of its annual parade.
It won’t be long before Santa himself is replaced by a group of non-denominational performers. This politically correct nonsense will spread if we don’t stop it.
It’s a gradual process of converting Christmas and other holidays into diluted celebrations of nothing at all.
We shouldn’t feel shame for who we are and what we believe in. We should all feel pride in the Canadian traditions that mark our identity.
Christmas isn’t about exclusion. It’s about the inclusion of Canadian values.
We should all celebrate Christmas. We should celebrate the festivities of other religions and cultures, too.
Wish your Jewish friends a Happy Hanukkah. Feel free to try out a fast during Ramadan. Fire up some lights for Diwali. We should all be respectful and knowledgeable of other people’s beliefs — and embrace them.
That’s how we’ll get some happy harmony. That’s exactly my point. Keep those politically correct pigeons off my Christmas fruit cake.
It’s Canadian common sense.
