yes, someone else's stupid opinion on the stupid 'war on xxxmas'

[rone]

What the "right" is doing is coöpting the "left"'s use of victim culture to promote their goals.  Yes, it's disingenuous, but, hey, it works.

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[iayork.livejournal.com]

Victim Culture has been the core of the Republican party's platform for the past 10-20 years. The talk show radio bloviators probably brought it to the fore, I suspect. The main message propping up the xenophobia, bigotry, and repressiveness is that you deserve better, but someone -- some Ay-rab, atheist, gay, lib-rul -- has stolen your birthright from you. Yes, if it wasn't because of them ill-legul imm-grunts, you would be on the executive board of Boeing instead of sweeping floors; if the lib-ruls weren't forcing universities to take minorities, your passing grade in 11th-grade English would have got you into Harvard. It's someone else's fault that you haven't made anything of yourself. Destroy Them, and all will be well.

But in fact, this Christmas silliness is even more than that. This is a spin-off of the "anti-PC" brigade -- take something that is not controversial; declare that it is controversial; stoutly proclaim that when you side with everyone else in the world you are in fact part of a persecuted minority. You get the best of both worlds -- all the smug glow of a persecuted martyr, and all the backpatting that comes with being part of the majority.