[politics] Good tidings we bring...
Shorter version of Dr. Jerry Pournelle's essay re: the so-called War on Christmas: Allow us to impose Christianity on you in the public sphere, or we'll kill you.
How very... Rwandan.
posted by protected static at 12/24/2005 02:45:00 PM
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I don't think that's where Jerry was going with his essay.
But how interesting that two people can look at the same bit of writing and come to different conclusions about it.
I don't really think that's what he meant - I read his first essay, thinking "Yes, but I think you're forgetting..." and "Well, sorta, but not really, but I can see where you're coming from..." As I read the second 'clarifying' essay, I was having more or less the same reaction until I got to the last lines, which I found quite chilling, particularly given how O'Reilly has been demonizing 'rich, secular Jews' as part of his Christmas tirades. (John Gibson hasn't crossed over into such overt anti-Semitism, but he's certainly nodded along in agreement...)
If Pournelle's essay had been written in a different context, I probably wouldn't have reacted to it so strongly.
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