Erasing America by James S. Robbins

Author:James S. Robbins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Publishing

THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON

The elimination of holidays by faceless bureaucrats in the name of diversity and inclusion is self-evidently absurd. Religious holidays—whether Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid, Diwali, or others—are important and meaningful for those who observe them and should not be considered offensive to those who do not. Chad Felix Greene, who is Jewish, writes of being insulted when an older coworker gave him a personalized Christmas card. He even complained to human resources about the “offense.” But the next year the same woman gave him another card and said, “I hope you have a lovely holiday.” He felt a pang of guilt at his past behavior, and over time realized that taking offense where none was intended was a matter of choice—and it was the wrong one. “Despite my cold and bitter temperament,” he writes, “she tried to warm my heart with a small and simple gift every single year she had the opportunity to do so.”

“It is so easy to be offended,” Greene continues, “so easy to feel hostility and suspicion.” He writes that “victimhood is attractive because it gives people permission to be judgmental without consequence and feel superior in doing so.” The judgmental ones have “a sense of being special, enlightened, and above it all. But this merely traps people in a cycle of bitterness and loneliness as they fight the urge to simply enjoy the holiday season with everyone else.” And these days he finds himself “loving Christmas and the cheer, colors, sounds, and small acts of kindness surrounding” him, not because he is less Jewish, but because he has dropped his “heavy cloaks of victimhood” and concluded that “kindness matters.”58

Americans have a right to celebrate holidays in whatever manner they wish and not to be shamed and bullied by the PC police. People are only driven further apart by being forced to walk on eggshells out of fear that someone will take offense at their innocent, heartfelt expressions of good cheer. This is the point President Trump is making by saying “Merry Christmas”—that despite what progressive censors say, it is okay to use this traditional greeting. People should say Merry Christmas—or Happy Hanukkah, Happy Diwali, Eid Mubarak, or any other holiday greeting proudly and happily and hope people will take it in the festive spirit in which it is offered. Americans can be joyful for each other. And they should leave it to the cynical progressive Scrooges to grumble about the “idiots” saying Merry Christmas who should be “boiled in their own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through their heart.”

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