Tell me about it… I’ve attended a couple of “winter” concerts at elementary schools in the last few years in America, one of the ones I went to actually censored the word Christmas from a Christmas song, and only played these weird artificial-sounding, forced and absolutely awful “winter” songs and none of the classic carols, not even any of the secular Christmas ones. It felt like I was in Communist Russia.
My parents told me we were moving to the UK in the summer of 2015, for my fifth grade year, to a diverse, multicultural city so completely different from the Bible Belt town I’d grown up in. I was completely ecstatic – excited to meet people who thought more like I did, and ready to escape the Southern Baptist hegemony I lived in. Yet, I’ve never felt more isolated in being Jewish than I did while living and going to school in England.
Come Christmastime, a season during which I’ve always felt left out, the school announced its plans to have its annual Christmas dinner. The pre-Christmas festive mood was high, but I wasn’t feeling it. Naturally, the school administration decided the best way to celebrate Christmas 2015 was to make all of the students sing Christmas carols. I cried. Nobody understood why I was crying about having to sing Christmas carols. Primary school Christmas dinners are a celebrated tradition in the UK, with the fond memories of Christmas crackers and roast dinner being nostalgic for many Brits. For me, they were just another sign that I was different from everybody else.
In the US, I live in Arkansas – not exactly a pinnacle of religious diversity. I, however, had never been exposed to school-sponsored explicitly religious events like I was when I lived in England. Our Christmas parties were always winter parties, and we would at least talk about Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Our spring break was always called “spring break” – never Easter break. And, most importantly, there were never any required Christian assemblies. Institutionally, I’ve never felt isolated for being Jewish in the United States. Though I know it’s not everyone’s experience, the feelings of difference that accompanied my Jewishness back home were almost always inflicted by other kids, not by the schools and government itself. In England, where kids tended to be more accepting, I felt different because of the school as an institution – not the student body.
For me, the institutional isolation felt much worse than the interpersonal isolation. In England, I felt as though the people I was supposed to trust to make me feel welcomed in a safe educational environment did not acknowledge my identity. It seemed as though the school itself attempted to marginalize religious minorities, and a place that was supposed to support me instead brushed away my right to practice my religion. The interpersonal isolation stateside was tough, mostly because I couldn’t relate to other students. The school itself always tried to make the voices of religious minorities heard, teaching the kids in my classes about Jewish holidays and keeping many of the winter-themed parties completely secular. I didn’t realize how much more included I felt having secular winter parties instead of Christmas parties until I was in England.
Wow… just wow. They won’t be happy until we completely silence our own cultural celebrations. Imagine an American living in Japan crying and complaining that the Japanese society is celebrating their own traditions in their own schools.
Stay strong ole England, don’t fall for this shit. Christmas has been ruined in public in the U.S. because of this whining.
People like you are how we got to this point.
Tbf most Ashkenazi Jews are atheistic
Damn straight. Just found another one from the same group...even with everything going on in Palestine, they are still obsessing over hating Christmas and eradicating it from schools in western (Christian) countries that they have been gracefully welcomed into.
Corporations don't even call it "Christmas" anymore, they call it "holiday" purposefully to exclude Christmas. So if you specifically celebrate Christmas you are already going against what they want, which is a Christian-less generic snowflake holiday with no name.
Fuck me. They did that to Easter too, it's called Bunny Day in the West and Easter in Japan.
This extends to a lot of things, non-western and non-christian countries like Japan and even Muslim countries talk about "Christmas" more than us, where it's always called "holiday" for the same reasons.
4 of the 5 "holiday spirit" days are labeled "holiday" instead of Christmas SPECIFICALLY TO INCLUDE THEM, even though they are less than 2% of the U.S. population and Hanukkah is a minor holiday in Judaism compared to Christmas being a major holiday, but that's not good enough.
They want us to stop celebrating publicly altogether. Notice how when Christmas is talked about publicly, 99% of the time it's called "holiday" as a euphemism. But anytime Hanukkah is specifically talked about publicly, it's called Hanukkah!! Never "holiday candelabra", always "Hanukkah menorah".
Jesus they're so entitled.
Get your own holiday bitch, Christmas is ours
Edit: oh of course, it's a "holiday" party nvm. I'm sure they're all celebrating Kwanzaa
This bitch has been one of the most batshit crazy cunts on twitter ever, it’s so entertaining
Let me just say, a girl with hips like that can NOT be male
They name-drop the main Latina character Lucia, but never name (and barely feature) the secondary white male protagonist, said to have been named “Jason” in the leaks…
I’m starting to get a bad feeling that her love interest is gonna be a “modifiable” character that can be a man, woman, black, Asian, etc. They are probably showing the default as a straight white male in the trailers etc. to lure in all the core fan base and make it appear less woke. Seems especially likely since most of the other characters shown in the trailer are non-white.
**Korean-American, not Korean
This kind of narcissistic, racist shit is purely a racial-hyphenated-American thing.
Has a society ever in history extincted themselves based on self-hatred of their own people and willful replacement and supplantation by outsiders?
Historians (if they even exist after western civilization is destroyed) will be studying this for centuries.
It's bad here, at least we aren't getting arrested for tweets (yet?)
They whine about colonialism, yet here they are firing all those indigenous Brits to replace them with invaders. The irony is palpable.
Of course the director responsible is a pajeet, this is nothing more than a revenge plot against the old empire.
If this doesn't spur a reunification what the fuck ever will??
I really don't have any hope at all that something like that would happen in America, sorry but American conservatives are too weak right now, they're too scared to be "called racist" and "cancelled". Until I see change on that front, I'm not at all hopeful. Leftists deserve credit for actually fighting (literally) for what they believe in no matter what, I wish people on the right were more emboldened to do so.
The media and authorities of course will do everything they can to crush anything before it goes anywhere. It's pretty sad considering Americans have the best shot at fighting back with their freedom of gun ownership laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashing_Through_the_Snow
38% on Rotten Tomatoes, 5/10 on IMDB, well deserved.
Why is it always Jewish writers writing all the big studios’ “Christmas” movies??
To be fair Linda Hamilton agreed to the role before the script was finished, and she hated the final script and hated that they killed off John Connor. I’ll give her a pass.
Susan Sarandon was also recently shitcanned by United Talent Agency for pro-Palestine comments.
The founders of Spyglass Entertainment, who fired the Scream actress: Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum. Feel free to google them for an unsurprising result! They both signed a letter I solidarity with Israel, as did the United Talent Agency Jewish cofounder (who fired Susan Sarandon):
https://twitter.com/RayyanTCG/status/1727142245860594172?t=ytBulEO3SA8tal6ymIxQ5w&s=19
Here's one of the Reddit comments that I'm sure spooked the mods:
You can anything you want about Palestinians, right up to calling them rapists and saying they deserve what's happening to them, but if you stand with them in even the most minor of ways, this is what happens to you. Sarah Silverman hosted the Daily Show a week ago, after saying it was Israel's right to cut off water and electricity to Gaza, but this is what gets you fired instead
Hmmm....
Trust me, they embrace that comparison!!
Corporate memphis shows 'people' distorted into unrecognizable, warped, non-functional shapes with fake skin colors and looks ugly as fuck. Kinda a great analog for our warped society right now, really. If all of the corporate art styles looked like Renaissance paintings, it wouldn't quite fit with our culture.
No shit Einstein, this has nothing to do with what free speech you are allowed to have.
Jews really don’t understand how good they have it in America, yet they still find ways to complain. Everything about Christianity is silenced and eschewed for their comfort, Evangelical Christians all support Israel for religious reasons, and they have a huge space in our national culture despite being a tiny minority.
Now that the younger generations are less religiously Christian they are leaning more toward supporting Palestine, and as the Muslim population grows, the Jews must be realizing how good they had it and soon they are gonna miss the “oppression” of the Evangelical Bible Belt that actually treated them better and placated their every whim more than any other country in history.