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

Original post by AndreaES

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
Xelindrya Posted:

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


Posted by Goldi1021


Posted by MrsP2Be

Doughnuts? We'll have Chinese Food since it falls right around Christmas.



Oh on Chanukah we are supposed to eat potato latkes and jelly doughnuts. On Christmas, Jewish people eat Chinese food because nothing else is open! The first night of Chanukah falls on Christmas day!



Come over to my house.
Last year I had to make tacos.. haha because my chinese in-laws love them!

Other than that.. LOTS of chinese being passed around at our place!
cjik Posted:

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

I agree that we have become too PC in many respects, but I do think holiday is appropriate at this time of year. The current administration has definitely put Christianity up front and center, and I think the focus is very narrow overall. I had the opportunity to attend an event the First Lady put together recently honoring groups helping children, and by and large, they appeared to invite faith based orgs, and I don't mean Catholic, Jewish, or Methodist organizations. Some of the people were doing great things for kids, but it bothered me that some groups required the kids to pray and accept Jesus as their personal savior in order to get the help they need.

That said, you are entitled to your opinion, and I agree we are very fortunate as a nation.
shelly3950 Posted:

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Goldi! So well said!!

I think we can get too PC and too spoiled, but unlike lots of other countries, the US is not a religious state. We are open to all relgions and have to remember that.

On that note, a Christmas Tree is a Christmas Tree. There is no Hanukah Bush. There is no holiday tree. The only thing offensive to me about the tree in Rockerfeller Center is how many damn tourists come to see it

We need to lighten up a little, but we also need to respect each other's beliefs.

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