Banning Christmas

From the Daily Express:

 

Christmas and Easter have been scrubbed from a college’s calendars in case they offend non-Christians.

Holidays at these times will now be referred to simply as “end of term breaks”.

The move will “increase inclusion and diversity”, claim bosses at Yorkshire Coast College in Scarborough, North Yorks. And it is in line with Ofsted guidelines, they say.

As a non-Christian (and, according to some – specifically those who demand to be treated like they’re special – “anti-Christian”), I find the idea of re-naming Christian holidays and such in order to help keep people like me from being offended to be… offensive. Look: things are what they are, and things are called what they’re called. Re-naming “Christmas” is as stupid as re-naming Wednesday. If you’re offended that the extant culture has a name for things that are derived from a religion other than yours… too fricken’ bad.

There are, in essense, two groups of people who need to grow the hell up:

1) Bitchy Muslims

2) Whiny liberals.

On the one hand, you’ve got Islamist organizations like CAIR who pitch fits whenever things aren’t the way they want them. On the other hand, you’ve got “can’t we just get along” leftards who want to “compromise” in order to maintain the peace. But unfortunately, “compromise” for far too many people means “let’s accomodate the people who scream the loudest.” The end result is that those who scream loud learn that they can constantly get things their way if they just keep screaming. Britain, which has just instituted Sharia courts (yeah…. THAT’s a good idea…), keeps slipping further and further down the rathole that is Islamopeasement. Now, I have no children, but I’ve watched the little bastards for near to forty years now… and I’ve noticed that when a child screams and pitches fits and the parents *don’t* smack ’em down, and, worse, when the parents back down and render unto their precious snowflake what the precious snowflake wants… the child learns that bad behavior gets him what he wants. This is only logical behavior on the part of the child; you can’t really blame him. The parents, on the other hand, deserve a good tasering or two. They are responsible for the bad behavior. Similarly, you can’t really blame screaming Islamists for screaming; their goal is to dominate the world and bend all of mankind to their will, and they’ve learned how to do it. It’s the schmucks who actually give in to Muslim rage – often enough even before the rage has expressed itself, just because they are afraid that maybe there might be some Muslim rage – who deserve the scorn in these cases.

The best response to such behavior is not “oh, alright, I’ll compromise,” it’s “shut up, ya little monster. Go to your room and wait till your father gets home.”