Merry Christmas and the battle against the Evil Politically Correct forces, part 2

As per my last post, the Politically Correct Evil forces are trying to get rid of Christmas by calling it any possible name in order not to “upset” anyone who is not Christian, although, funny enough, non-Christians (at least the ones I know) do celebrate Christmas as much as the Christians do. But this is not deterring the Politically Correct Evil forces. In fact, common sense and the real world is what they despise the most and they like things their way and everybody should follow.

Well, the hell with that, and I think I made my view clear enough in my last post, but what about the rest of my colleagues? Majority of them are British and from a Christian upbringing: Would they join my fight for Christmas?

Well, once Human Resources forwarded to all of us the email about the Festive Winter Celebration, there was a bit of talking about a possible boycotting of the party and a proper uprising was taking form, in the shape of an alternative Christmas Party staged somewhere at some point.

Wow, I thought, power of the masses! Yes, we can! The times they are a-changing, and all that jazz…

Yes, because only the masses can change the world. Take Ghandi, for example, he managed the independence of India not by being non-violent as the “historians” always want us to believe, but because he had 300 millions (at the time) Indians behind him to kick the British out of the country. In fact, if he was just as non-violent but with his family and his mates as his only supporters, do you think we will still be talking about him?
On the other hand, take the Olympics in China last year. If every single athlete had the decency of boycotting the opening ceremony, the Chinese government would have suffered an unbelievable embarrassment by staging an open ceremony with no bloody athlete (apart for the Chinese of course) to take part in it. Instead though, only a small minority of athletes boycotted the opening ceremony and in the end nobody noticed they were missing.

But masses need a leader. Even the commies, always banging about collectivism and “people”, they always had a leader, didn’t they? Mao, Stalin, Che Guevara and so on, because they well knew that without a leader the masses lose any interest and go back to watching Ex-Factor. Talking about that, Simon Cowell is a leader too and if tomorrow he was going to start a political party, I bet he could get more votes than Brown and Cameron put together. Not sure how the country will cope with the credit crunch but Britain will put up a hell of a karaoke show.

So, in order to do a rebellion, we need the masses, a leader and then propaganda, leaflets, banners and yes, of course, some money to keep the fight going.

Unfortunately, we didn’t have any of the above: no masses, no leaders, no propaganda, no leaflets, but this didn’t surprise me. The British have many qualities, but what they are absolute rubbish at is to set up a proper rebellion!
After all, they still have kings and queens and the congestion charge could double up tomorrow morning and nobody will move a muscle.
So, at the end the only thing I could do was to boycott myself the Festive Winter Party and tell as many people as possible why I was not going to the party. I was the masses, I was the leader, I was the propaganda.

I must say I did get the odd look about this but no arguments were raised and no clash happened and the world did not (sadly) change.

Lucky Ghandi. I wish I had his 300 million (at the times) followers. I will be celebrating Christmas every day.

And now Happy New Year to all of you, Happy 2010 and if I remember correctly, aren’t we all counting the years from the birth of Jesus Christ? Or maybe should we not count the years from another important event in the history of the world? Such as, let me say, when Political Correctness was invented?

I am not sure exactly of the year when this rubbish thinking started, nobody is, but more time goes by it seems 1984 to me…

Merry Christmas and the battle against the Evil Politically Correct forces, part 1

Merry Christmas everyone!

Yes, you heard me right, Merry Christmas, I said, and no happy Diwali, joyful Ramadan or gracious Winnie-the-Pooh day but Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas!

I hope I said it many times, because one day, if we keep prostrating our intellect to the Politically Correct brigade, the C-word will be banned and we will be doomed.

It all probably started in America I guess, like Coca-Cola, Rock n’ roll and take-away pizza, but political correctness is now a disease spreading all over the Western world, to the point that, sadly, it is already corroding our way of living.

Political correctness is such a big subject that I cannot describe it in one post, so I will instead focus my attention on two things: the battle for Christmas and the unwillingness of the British to rebel.

Christmas had been suffering a few setbacks in the last few years. Christmas lights in Oxford Street had been renamed Winter lights, for example, and in some schools Christmas is not celebrated anymore. However, it was not until this nonsense reached me directly that I really understood the gravity of the phenomenon.

Now, my company held every year a Christmas Party, in which I have always participated, and this year I was going to participate too, until I received the invitation from the Human Resources Department where, with my anger and disbelief, the Christmas Party had been renamed Festive Winter Party.

Festive Winter Party? I never knew that people celebrated winter since the times the druids were constructing Stonehenge, or was it some kind of typing error? Some of us in the company made the point of asking if, by any chance, there was some kind of mistake and this is the reply we got from the HR department:

Further to the recent disappointing comments concerning the ‘Company Festive Winter Party’, I would like to clarify any confusion.

As I expect you are aware, we have a team made up of many faiths, and in recognising our diversity we have referred to the party as our Festive Winter Event. As the event is not themed as a Christmas party this is thought to be more appropriate.
Criticisms which have been made in this regard have upset and offended other employees and all staff are asked to use email in an appropriate way which does not or could not cause such offence.

Please feel free to approach HR further if needed in regards to this.

Thank you for your cooperation, understanding and appreciation of others.

I decided not to reply to the statement, considering that, although I had the right to do so, it would have done me no good and, who knows, maybe put me into trouble. So, I have decided to do it here and HR is welcome to comment on my post:

Dear Human Resources Department,

Further to your recent communication, let me clarify the following points:

I am aware that we have a team of many faiths, as a Catholic I myself belong to a minority in this country, and as an Italian I belong to an ethnic minority, so I can play the race-faith card too.

Christmas is a tradition of this country as much as the Queen and therefore it is ridiculous to abolish it in the name of political correctness. Diversity is a wonderful thing, but in Rome do as the Romans do, as the saying goes, or otherwise, shouldn’t the Muslims rename the Ramadan and the Hindu Diwali?

If the criticism made has upset and offended some people, could I please have a word with them? I am sure I will be able to explain my action, although I guess this is out of the question, considering that probably nobody was upset and offended…

Lastly, don’t thank me for what I am not doing: cooperating and understanding, and the appreciation of others does not mean that I have to renege on the 2,000 years of history and tradition.

I was going to talk about the unwillingness of the British to rebel, but I will write it in my next post, in the meantime, Merry Christmas and if you are offended, I couldn’t care less.