Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Who Started the War on Christmas?: 'The War on Christmas' started in a white nationalist cabal and spread to conservative media.


Last week Max Blumenthal, who writes for the Daily Beast blog, wrote a column about the so-called  "War on Christmas" . 

Blumenthal traced the origin of this so-called war to Peter Brimelow author of the 1995 book Alien Nation  

"...Brimelow argued that the influx of “weird aliens with dubious habits” from developing nations was eroding America’s white Christian “ethnic core,” and in turn, sullying its cultural underpinnings. The War on Christmas was, in his view, a particularly pernicious iteration of the multicultural “struggle to abolish America.”...

... "Following the invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush’s re-election, and the Republican sweep of Congress, Brimelow said conservative movement elites could no longer ignore the right-wing populism sweeping the nation. Suddenly the War on Christmas was gaining traction. “This issue became very popular in the conservative grassroots, so conservative media had to pay concession to it,” he said.

By 2005, Fox News personalities Bill O’Reilly and John Gibson were dedicating entire shows to the War on Christmas. While their rants were directed at “secular progressives,” they echoed the arguments of Brimelow’s allies. “It’s all part of the secular progressive agenda,” O’Reilly grumbled. “If you can get religion out, then you can pass secular progressive programs, like legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage.” National Review’s website jumped back on the bandwagon, beginning with editor Kathryn Jean Lopez’s promotion of Gibson’s bestselling 2005 polemic, The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought.

Of the conservatives who once dismissed his Christmas crusade, Brimelow remarked with a self-satisfied chuckle, “They went over to the dark side.”...

So, there you have it. The so-called  "War on Christmas" was started by the ACLU or some atheistic liberal kook. It was fabricated by Peter Brimelow, a white nationalist with Noe-Nazi supremacist ideas and tendencies. 

"Happy Holidays" everyone!

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