There has been many outrageous stories on the supposed "War on Christmas", but this is just beyond reproach. It starts off with the usual crap about how things used to be better when "winter closure" was called "Christmas vacation", but then he launches into an inane diatribe about how it is really a "war against all of Western Civilization".
Merry you-know-what by Thomas Sowell:
It is not just on religious issues that the media and the intelligentsia seem determined to suppress the symbols of Western civilization. American flags can be seen on homes in working class communities but seldom on elite college campuses.
Those who banish the symbols of a civilization often undermine that civilization in other ways as well. People who warn us against being "Eurocentric" are often totally Eurocentric when it comes to condemning the sins of the human race as if they were peculiarities of "our society."
These are not just isolated foibles that we can laugh at. No society can survive in the long run without the allegiance of its people. Undermining a sense of the worthiness of a society undermines that allegiance -- and, without allegiance, there is no defense.
In the international jungle, made more dangerous by terrorist networks that circle the globe, anything that it is not defended is in jeopardy -- which means we are all in jeopardy, and so are our children and our children's children.
Those who wage war against the symbols of American society and Western civilization may do so for no wider purpose than moral exhibitionism or just a desire to be in step with fashionable trends. But silliness can be a prelude to tragedy.
Wow! Scary stuff!
Could everyone please wish Mr. Thomas Sowell a very "Merry Christmas" so that our children's children will be safe?