Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz

Following last week's revelations that the PC Brigade, spearheaded by the Race Relations Commissioner, is attempting to undermine use of the term ‘Christmas' in case it upsets someone, we've had a massive amount of feedback.

Thank you all for the messages, all thoroughly disgusted with the politically correct nonsense that seems to be swamping our everyday lives.

Our emails and Facebook have gone bonkers with responses from people fed up with idiots trying to change the way we live, play, work, and even how we sing.

National media have also climbed in, with Duncan Garner describing the latest tripe from the RCC as ‘Devoy's jihad against Christmas'.

Today we share one of the best responses, from Katikati reader Lindi-lou, below:

Duplicitous, nonsensical liberal bilge

'Mixing my Christmas pudding I thought about undermining Christmas and the duplicitous, errant nonsensical liberal bilge that seems to be being applied to this cultural and religious festival. There are many loopholes in the current RRC thinking and policy. I'll briefly outline a few.

Christmas is a religious festival not a racist one. Christmas does not exclude a whole range of races. There are practicing Christians living on every continent of the world. Imagine you are a migrant/refugee who has sought refuge here from your country where you could have been killed for being Christian.

You arrive here and find that celebrating the birth of baby Jesus is no longer considered politically correct. You'd be rightly very upset and bewildered. So conclusion no. 1 is that such a perverse policy is just plain daft, and possibly not even part of the Race Relations Commission brief.

Let's pretend that there is a racist concern to be addressed (not that there is). Now consider that suppressing the use of the word Christmas in favour of ‘holiday', or some other bland term, is racist because it amounts to oppressing the English language. Imagine if it was a Maori word and how that would go down.

Such suppression clearly breaches the RRC's own list of human rights that states: 'We all have the right to enjoy one's culture and to use one's own language.” So conclusion no. 2 is that suppressing Christmas is, in fact, reverse racism by the RRC and a poorly thought-through whim.

If we ‘ban' the acknowledgement of, and support for, Christmas then by the same sweeping brush stroke all other cultural celebrations such as Diwali, Chinese New Year, and Matariki, to name but a few, should also be called ‘holidays'. Philosophically, acknowledging difference applies across all cultures, languages, ethnicities without exception unless a particular group are causing harm to others. Harm can be physical, of course, but as we know from history it can also arise in fascist oppression of other peoples' cultures and religions. So, conclusion no. 3 is that all New Zealanders have a democratic right to celebrate Christmas how they choose to and that any discrimination against them in fact contravenes the RRC's own policy 'to promote and protect the human rights of all people in Aotearoa New Zealand”.

I want to complain to the RRC that, as found in their mission statement, they are abusing my human right to celebrate Christmas. This last statement is not a joke and I hope that Dame Susan Devoy and/or her co-workers read this letter and contact me to reverse their fluffy thinking before Christmas this year. Perhaps they'd like to send me a Christmas card.

Merry Christmas everyone, especially those who work at the RRC as I suspect some of them, on the quiet, will be celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus and Peace on Earth to all.”

Lindi-lou.

Carols by emissions-free light sources

On the lighter side, RR salutes the middle finger to the PC Brigade, and continues the farce of politically-sanitised Christmas Carols, which will henceforth be known as Seasonal Songs. And remember to sing these in the glow of a zero-emissions light source.

Frosty the gender non-specific Snowperson.

Chestnuts Roasting on a Safely Contained, Continuously Monitored, Eco-friendly, Non-toxic Outdoor Fire (with a Permit and a smoke alarm with a newly installed battery and recently tested)

Deck the Halls with Boughs of Unendangered Foliage (If Office Policy Permits)
I Saw Mommy Greeting Santa Claus with a Purely Platonic Expression of Inoffensive Mutual Affection.

Also known as: I Beheld My Maternal Parent Osculating A Corpulent Unshaven Male in a Crimson Guise.

I'm deluding myself over a colour-neutral holiday season.

I'll Be in Residence for a Short Period of Time in December.

Manger Danger

And here's a few for the bureaucrats:

Remotely-located Makeshift Dwelling, Sited in an Agricultural-Zoned Region Primarily Set Aside for the Raising of Farm Animals under MPI-approved Codes of Practice.
Embellish the Corridors Utilising Freshly-Harvested Organic Matter that may Induce Sensation of Festive Euphoria.

Grandma Allegedly was Involved in a Collision with an Unidentified Non-Human Perpetrator (but officials will not speculate on the cause or apportion blame as the matter is before the courts) Rudolph, the Bovine with Facial Appendage of a Different Colour.

Valentino, The Flushed Proboscis Wapiti.

Quiescent Nocturnal Period.

Mutton Observers Ogle A Bevy Under Eventide.

Parting shot:

Beware the Vertically-Challenged Child Percussionist of Unspecified Gender Exceeding OSH approved Decibel Limits.

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