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This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas" - Printable Version +- MacResource (https://forums.macresource.com) +-- Forum: My Category (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=1) +--- Forum: 'Friendly' Political Ranting (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=6) +--- Thread: This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas" (/showthread.php?tid=161774) Pages:
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This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas" - beagledave - 12-18-2013 http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-school-bears-brunt-of-merry-Christmas-hoax-5073194.php Did you know a San Francisco elementary school suspended a student for wishing an atheist teacher a merry Christmas? No? That's because it didn't happen. But an Internet hoax had people across the country believing it did, resulting in e-mail tirades and more than 75 phone complaints and veiled threats of violence against the fictitious teacher or the actual principal. And taxpayers picked up the tab for beefed-up security and staff time to deal with the phony story. Re: This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas" - decay - 12-18-2013 ![]() Re: This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas" - hal - 12-18-2013 Here's one of those sites that Charlie likes so much - they fell for it: http://conservativefrontline.com/9-year-old-suspended-saying-merry-christmas-teacher/ Re: This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas" - cbelt3 - 12-18-2013 It's OK... in Pakistan and Egypt (both receiving military aid from the US), Christian churches are simply being bombed and the churchgoers slain. Now THAT is a War on Christmas ! Re: This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas" - August West - 12-18-2013 :nuts: Re: This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas" - August West - 12-18-2013 cbelt wrote: The story identified the school as Argon Elementary, which doesn’t exist, but is similar to the real-life Argonne Elementary School, whose administrators heard from some of those angry readers. Re: This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas" - cbelt3 - 12-18-2013 August.. now that's just sadly unfortunate. A hoax perpetrated by some nutsoid produces a threat potential that requires a response. Terrorist hoaxsters win. Re: This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas" - SteveG - 12-18-2013 I prefer more traditional Christmas celebrations: Warsaw Pogrom of 1881 On Christmas Day 1881 the outbreak of panic after a false warning of fire in the crowded Holy Cross Church resulted in the deaths of twenty-nine persons in a stampede. It was believed that the false alarm was raised by pickpockets, who used the ruse to allow them to rob people during the panic. A crowd gathered on the scene of the event and some unknown persons started to spread a rumor, which subsequently proved to be unfounded, that two Jewish pickpockets had been caught in the church. The mob began to attack Jews, Jewish stores, businesses, and residences in the streets adjoining the Holy Cross Church. The riots in Warsaw continued for three days, until Russian authorities (who controlled the police as well as military in the city) intervened, arresting 2,600 people. During the Warsaw pogrom two people were left dead and twenty-four injured. The pogrom also left about a thousand Jewish families financially devastated. In the months afterwards about one thousand Warsaw Jews emigrated to the United States. Re: This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas" - cbelt3 - 12-18-2013 G... sad... celebrate the birth of a Jewish boy by killing... Jewish boys. :facepalm: Re: This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas" - SteveG - 12-18-2013 cbelt3 wrote: That ain't the half of it... ![]() |