(November 14, 2013 at 9:31 am)Zazzy Wrote: Also, other than yapping on 24-hour news crap, where ARE the atheists who get offended by "Merry Christmas"? They're obviously not here, and since everybody has expressed how lame it is to get your panties in a bunch about it, I can only conclude that because of a few idiotic talking heads on TV, Christians think atheists hate Christmas and are offended by it. It appears to be a misunderstanding.
It's a right wing propaganda talking point, you know the kind: innocuous enough that it doesn't make the viewers too scared, simple so they don't hurt their thinker boxes, alienating toward an easy Other that doesn't have the same access to media to counter, and it's like a dog whistle because it's about christianity. The other added bonus is that, since it's technically a seasonal story, they can dust it off for another go around next year, confident that the limited memory of the standard Fox viewer has completely run over that!
We just happen to get smeared because good ratings are worth more that journalistic integrity, to a lot of right wing news pundits.
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