Rhinocrisy

As you may have heard, there is a war on Christmas this year. Not a shooting war, so don’t expect to run downstairs on Christmas morn and find Santa’s bullet-riddled corpse lying under your tree where your presents ought to be.^* Just a war of words. As usual, I go to Michelle Malkin for the goods. The salient bits:

A guy named John Gibson from Fox News has a book out called “The War on Christmas”. Apropos! Check out the Amazon page - the book has an average of 2.5 stars, the result of an EXACTLY EQUAL NUMBER of 1-star and 5-star reviews. Holy shit.

Also, conservatives are apparently up in arms about the USPS refusing to sell religiously-themed stamps this year. Self-correcting blogosphere says: um, no.

Finally, Bill O’Reilly, who started this whole business last year, has re-entered the trenches. He fired off a few shots at the Daily Show, which prompted Jon Stewart to respond with a pledge to destroy Christmas: “I will not rest until every year families gather to spend December 25th together, at Osama’s Homo-bortion Pot & Commie Jizz-porium.” Awesome.

On a more serious note, I’m intimately familiar with the whole idea of ‘majority as downtrodden, persecuted group, beset by evil secularists’, coming from a Hindu nationalist family. This is a powerful rhetorical device, allowing you to cloak yourself in the righteous anger of the wronged and trample the minority in the name of justice. It’s considered trite to offer such comparisons, but all of this smells strongly like the fascistic movement I grew up with.

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^* If you do, however, be sure and ransack the body. I hear that guy has tons of sweet magical items - Bag of Infinite Capacity, Levitation Belt, 5d8 Reindeer Whip (+2 dex!).