Few years ago, I've read this wonderful book: Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times by James Finn Garner (1994),New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN 002542730X.PC is a term denoting language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social offense in gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, handicap, and age-related contexts.Have you heard about The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas Woods,published in December 2004?Do you think PC can be a threat to History or a better way to write it ?(Why should we say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas ? ???)
I don't know if it's just me or what, but I'm telling everyone I speak with Merry Christmas. They act surprised I said it, but a happy surprise. I even wished my very Jewish Greek tutor a Merry Christmas.
My wife and I are also militant Merry Christmasers. I actually refuse to shop at stores that don't have Christmas in their advertising or water it down by saying winter fest or happy holidays. The Holiday is about the birth of Christ and not Santa Clause and who gets the most presents. We also go to midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and mass again on Christmas Day. I personally have an intense dislike for Kwanzaa, if that is a real holiday then I want to invent my own too.
This (from another forum) solves it for all, eh?"To My Liberal Friends: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2010, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great.. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wish. To My Conservative Friends:Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in the 2010."
The threat ! Merry x-mas Happy New Year ---> 5 words PC ----> 173 words ----> more paper ----> more trees cut ----> deforestation ----> GW !! Quod erat demonstrandum (Q.E.D.)