To challenge this fb post?

[SenseofEntitlement]

An acquaintance posted this on fb:
"Twas the month before ChristmasWhen all through our land,Not a Christian was prayingNor taking a stand.__See the PC Police had taken awayThe reason for Christmas - no one could say.__The children were told by their schools not to singAbout Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.__It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would sayDecember 25th is just a ' Holiday '.Yet the ......shoppers were ready with cash, checks and creditPushing folks down to the floor just to get it!CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-PodSomething was changing, something quite odd!Retailers promoted Ramadan and KwanzaaIn hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.__As Targets were hanging their trees upside downAt Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.__At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and SearsYou won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.__Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-tyAre words that were used to intimidate me.__Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf BlitzenOn Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatterTo eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.__And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faithForbidden to speak of salvation and graceThe true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discardedThe reason for the season, stopped before it started.__So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.__Choose your words carefully, choose what you sayShout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,not Happy Holiday !Please, all Christians join together andwish everyone you meetMERRY CHRISTMASChrist is The Reason' for the Christ-mas Season!......pass it on if you like. :)"

WIBU to ask exactly what on earth they were going on about?

Bollicks like that makes my teeth itch.

And I say that as someone who does place Jesus at the centre of my Christmas.

just hide it ,I hide shit on my wall from one of my fb friends all the time

I received that e-mail. I just deleted it. I have Christmas in my mind whether it's PC or not.

Blow those who do not see what Christmas is for.

defriend now!

what a crap way in getting the message about baby Jesus being born.
Don't like that style.

YABU to spread that shit on here

What's the point? The copy and past bollocks is bad enough on Facebook without having it on Mumsnet as well.

Either ask them or don't ask them...they're your friends after all.

Apparently they are sick of always being told what they can't say in case it offends people... PC GONE MAD.

Yeah, I think it is defriending time.

There is just no evidence whatsoever for this shit. When I challenged her for an example of it ever happening, she replied with "who cares?" and, when pressed, said she thought she saw something in the daily mail.

What a load of shite. I'll expect to find that one in the inbox of the gmail account I have that my Dad uses to keep in touch with his ex-pat DM-reading brother.

Delete and de-friend.

Ugh. I'm a Christian and that made me want to puke. Can't decide whether the sentiment or the scansion is more revolting.

I wouldn't bother challenging it, though. Ignore, hide, or de-friend, depending on how much it pisses you off.

X-post about the Daily Mail

Paranoid bullshit. It wouldn't occur to me to do anything but wish people a Merry Christmas. I've never heard of a Dream Tree. And those Christmas trees that hang upside down look a bit shit but I don't see anything sinister in them.
And Christ-mas is about family and presents and eating for the vast majority.

Oh dear.
I used to get "round robin" emails of this kind of shite from relatives - bollocks like the fact that "the Holocaust is no longer taught in schools".

Inaccurate, inflammatory shite.

I'm actually really annoyed at them - I'm hope I'm not over reacting, but this is the kind of bollocks that gets it repeated as fact that "ooh, they are banning Christmas, you have to call it Winterval now, because of all the brown people"

Racist, ill informed, paranoid rubbish.

[yawn] As I say to anyone who spouts on the "Christmas message", December 25th was celebrated a long time before the Christians claimed it. You celebrate Christ, I'll celebrate family. We'll both have a fantastic day.

Do yourself a favour and ignore it. I always ignore the facebook "copy and paste" posts.

WHAT?!?!?!?

BUT... BUT....

How DARE anyone even think to celebrate ANYTHING other than the birth of Christ during December, even though Christianity is only one of many religions and he wasn't even born in December?! How very dare they!

I think it is the bit where it mentions Ramadan, as if the two shelves of Eid cards in the shop full of Christmas cards is somehow an attack on Christmas.

Racist, ill informed, paranoid rubbish

And yet you chose to post it in its entirety?

The people who spread this shit around the internet do it because they want this shit spread around the internet

And that's exactly what you've done here OP

It may have been well intended or you may have just wanted to discuss the contents...either way you're still spreading it.

Can't relate that well to it, in large part because most of the cultural references are American, and I am not.

I would be doing a massive to it.

Anyway they re BU as it's only November.

Winterval is a myth

I kind of want to post it on my FB now just to see the reaction

This is why fb needs a "dislike" button. I hate this ignorant DM type shite, but there's little point challenging it, the poster won't understand.

I saw the dad of a friend of my dd's today in Tesco actually. He looked in my basket of toys and asked if I was Christmas shopping. I said yes. He said he was too. They are Muslim. They mustn't have been informed of the Christmas ban yet.