Society & Culture
#016 - A Brief History of the War on Christmas
2023-12-05
It's December, which means it's time for everybody's racist uncle's favorite holiday tradition, the War on Christmas.
Every year, sure as silver bells chime and lit wreathes line the streets of America's most aggressively white suburbs, Fox News delights eager viewers by trotting out this year's new battlefront narrative: Gay nutcrackers at Target! Insufficiently Christmassy Starbucks cup! Liberals cancelling Rudolph!
If you ask Fox News and your least-favorite relatives, there is a War on Christmas...and there always will be.
So Kelly and John are here to lay down so facts, starting with the fact that Christmas in the year 2023 is a much, much more religious affair than at any time in the past, and that Christmas is only growing more ubiquitous as a holiday globally.
And that there was a War on Christmas - a war that Christmas won in a rout - waged by Christians for centuries.
LINKS!
The Right-Wing’s Forever War: A Short History Of The War On Christmas - Bill Berkowitz
Who Waged the Very First ‘War on Christmas’? - Jade McClain
Target is “Sexualizing Christmas for Children” Screeches Fox News - John Riley
A Puritan Christmas under Cromwell - Jessica Brain
The Plum Pudding Riots: What happened when Christmas was cancelled in Kent - Phil Hayes
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