Rant about the Rockefeller Tree 'holiday' thing please read!

I sincerely think that America is PC crazy!!!! I mean come on, some of these complaints are just friggen ridiculous. Over the last several decades we've morphed into a nation of over sensitive whinners.It's truly appalling, and to be honest if it wasn't so pathetic it would be laughable. But it is pathetic. We act like a bunch of spoiled children running to our parents when the bully at school says something mean. Except it not our parents it's our government we run crying to. We are one of the most privileged and spoon feed societies in the world. We don't have millions upon millions starving to death, dying of simple diseases that could be cured easily with antibiotics, we're not suffering through drought, genocide, ethnic cleansing,a cruel dictatorship no we are not!!! Actually we waste over 7 million pounds of food a year, and we don't die from TB we get inoculated, as of yet we have plenty of water, and we haven't seen genocide close up (at home) for hundreds of years. But do we appreciate any of that, sadly for the most part NO!!!! We fane empathy and act concerned but we still whine and complain like the spoiled children we have become at every little inconvenience or hurtful word. Do we truly comprehend the millions and millions suffering in ways we can't even imagine right at this very moment NO!!!! What are our HUGE concerns, that someone called you black, in stead of African American, or someone at work called you a girl instead of a woman, or that the city officals in NYC have the nerve to put up at tree at CHRISTMAS time and call it a CHRISTMAS TREE!!!!!!!!!! I mean come on people, that's just plain stupidity. We all need a good kick in the a$$ to wake us up. And we have to stop alerting the authorities everytime we have hurt feelings and deal with things ourselves. Our founding fathers would be turning over in their graves if they could see what we've become. A bunch of bumbling idiots. We are Americans dammit, we're strong, independent, intelligent, resourceful,and one of the most power people of the world, so let's start acting like it again. America is a free country, but our freedoms are slipping away, how can we have free speech when the government tells us what we can or can't say??? We are chipping away at our own freedoms,why?? Because someone said something or has something we didn't like?? We are digging our own graves. So what do you say we pull our heads out of our collective a$$es and let them put up the FUC$ING Christmas tree!!!


Thanks for letting me get that out. Feel free to flame me, and I promise I won't tell on you!!!!

Sincerely, Andrea

Amen, sister! You said it better than I could have!

I completely agree that we are a whiny, spoiled and far too litigious nation.
However, I am fed up with the fact that the USA has become Christland under our current president. What makes this country great is our freedom and the separation of church and state is a big part of it.

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Posted by LoriH

I completely agree that we are a whiny, spoiled and far too litigious nation.
However, I am fed up with the fact that the USA has become Christland under our current president. What makes this country great is our freedom and the separation of church and state is a big part of it.

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Yep, agreed.

While I can say that the tree should be a Christmas tree, I *do* think that it's a more common courtesy for people to wish those they do not know a happy holiday, as opposed to wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. It's rude and presumptuous to assume that everyone around you is the same religion you are. (I mean you in the general sense, not YOU specifically)

I'm just waiting for the day when some idiot protests Halloween, because of it's connection to All Saint's Day, something that us horrible Catholics made up

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Posted by Anniegrl

I'm just waiting for the day when some idiot protests Halloween, because of it's connection to All Saint's Day, something that us horrible Catholics made up

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They did this year in Europe. The Vatican's way against the Halloween pageantry.

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Posted by PrincessRose

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Posted by Anniegrl

I'm just waiting for the day when some idiot protests Halloween, because of it's connection to All Saint's Day, something that us horrible Catholics made up

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They did this year in Europe. The Vatican's way against the Halloween pageantry.

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Wait, the VATICAN protested Halloween?

Yep. They protested the way the American culture celebrates Halloween and the way it's crept into European celebrations, because it puts the emphasis on the 'darker' side, with spirits and whatnot, as opposed to All Saints Day, the more religious part of the celebration. They are against the debauchery the American traditions tend to espouse.

Read it on Yahoo News around Halloween.

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Posted by PrincessRose

Yep. They protested the way the American culture celebrates Halloween and the way it's crept into European celebrations, because it puts the emphasis on the 'darker' side, with spirits and whatnot, as opposed to All Saints Day, the more religious part of the celebration. They are against the debauchery the American traditions tend to espouse.

Read it on Yahoo News around Halloween.

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Well, they do have a point. I'm sure not one American child knows the history of Halloween (only I did because my mom always made us go to Church on Nov 1st, which a lot of times was a weekday!)

Also, Annie, a lot of american Protestant (mainly Born-again) congregations protest Halloween, saying that it celebrates S*t*n.

There are also Orthodox Jews who won't celebrate Halloween, as it is by all rights a Christian holiday. Personally, I like the extra chance every year to dress up in costume, but I'm a geek.

ETD: LOL, they ****ed out the name!!!!!! That's hilarious.

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Posted by PrincessRose

Also, Annie, a lot of american Protestant (mainly Born-again) congregations protest Halloween, saying that it celebrates S*t*n.

There are also Orthodox Jews who won't celebrate Halloween, as it is by all rights a Christian holiday. Personally, I like the extra chance every year to dress up in costume, but I'm a geek.

ETD: LOL, they ****ed out the name!!!!!! That's hilarious.

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People are just plain silly!

OMG I love this rant!!! It's so well said.

I agree its ridiculous that they cant call it a 'christmas tree' when in fact..the tree celebrates CHRISTMAS. Are we going to change the name of the big menorah they put up to the 'holiday candles' and remove the jewish star from it because its 'offensive' to some people? Give me a break..What is this country coming to..

I agree.

Christmas is my favorite holiday.

I totally agree with you Andrea 1000%

Imagin916 exactly how I feel