What would happen if Wal*Mart and Target and other corporate giants had their annual day after Thanksgiving sale and nobody shopped?
These enormous-wealthier-than-anything-our-backward-middle_American-minds-can-imagine-giant-corporations have instructed their employees to not use the greeting ‘Merry Christmas’. They are to use ‘Happy Holidays’ instead. It’s fine to sell holiday items as long as the items do not have religious connotations (except for religious items that don’t have anything to do with Christianity, of course).
I’m sure anyone reading this already knows all about this.
When these corporate policies became public, Wal*Mart backtracked. Their corporate statement reassures us that this has all been one big misunderstanding. They really didn’t mean THAT, they are just trying to be all-inclusive. They have to think globally after all, they are Wal*Mart. They go on to assure us that their ‘associates’ are more than welcome to use the greeting ‘Merry Christmas’ as long as the customer uses that same greeting first. Otherwise, ‘Happy Holidays’ it is.
Target has not backtracked.
These enormous-wealthier-than-anything-our-backward-middle-American-minds-can-imagine-giant-corporations aren’t particularly concerned that a minimum of 85% of their consumer base are American citizens who were raised in the Christian faith. They aren’t particularly concerned that 40% of their annual earnings are garnered during the ‘Holiday’ season.
They know we’ll shop there anyway.
We’ll shop there because we don’t really believe it, not deep down inside. Our rights can’t be taken away. Not like this, ebbing away a little at a time.
These enormous-wealthier-than-anything-our-backward-middle_American-minds-can-imagine-giant-corporations have instructed their employees to not use the greeting ‘Merry Christmas’. They are to use ‘Happy Holidays’ instead. It’s fine to sell holiday items as long as the items do not have religious connotations (except for religious items that don’t have anything to do with Christianity, of course).
I’m sure anyone reading this already knows all about this.
When these corporate policies became public, Wal*Mart backtracked. Their corporate statement reassures us that this has all been one big misunderstanding. They really didn’t mean THAT, they are just trying to be all-inclusive. They have to think globally after all, they are Wal*Mart. They go on to assure us that their ‘associates’ are more than welcome to use the greeting ‘Merry Christmas’ as long as the customer uses that same greeting first. Otherwise, ‘Happy Holidays’ it is.
Target has not backtracked.
These enormous-wealthier-than-anything-our-backward-middle-American-minds-can-imagine-giant-corporations aren’t particularly concerned that a minimum of 85% of their consumer base are American citizens who were raised in the Christian faith. They aren’t particularly concerned that 40% of their annual earnings are garnered during the ‘Holiday’ season.
They know we’ll shop there anyway.
We’ll shop there because we don’t really believe it, not deep down inside. Our rights can’t be taken away. Not like this, ebbing away a little at a time.
One little thing and then another. Not like this. When one change happens, we squirm, then adjust. Then another change happens, we squirm, then adjust. Then another change, then another, then another. And so on. We squirm here and there, but we adjust. We always adjust. Then we go get a pedicure.
We are Americans. This is how we’ve always lived, we believe it’s how we always will live. Why would it change? We are free. We have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom in the pursuit of happiness and all the other freedoms they wrote up in that document way back when.
We are free.
Just don’t say ‘Merry Christmas’ this year.
We are Americans. This is how we’ve always lived, we believe it’s how we always will live. Why would it change? We are free. We have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom in the pursuit of happiness and all the other freedoms they wrote up in that document way back when.
We are free.
Just don’t say ‘Merry Christmas’ this year.
2 comments:
Wal-Mart stores are welcoming the Salvation Army's bell ringers and red kettles earlier than usual this year, in an effort to help the ministry aid this year's hurricane victims.
Meanwhile, Target stores, which last year banned the Salvation Army, are now banning the phrase "Merry Christmas" from their store displays and advertising as well.-- out of my local newspaper before all of the =SALE ADS=
This only solidifies what you are writing about. Yes, we ignore it as a society; we need everything new and updated; we need the latest and greatest at whatever insidious cost it is to our nation; so as not to "rock the boat" I think we need to sink the Mega-business ships of America and stand up to these "product pushers" and keep the holiday...the (SHHHHH) holy day what it was orginally intended to be. Merry Christmas to all and to all a "happy holy day"
Thank Anonymous! I'm glad to hear about Wal-Mart - didn't know that. I knew they had done some backpeddlin when the news got out.
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