Saying ‘Merry Christmas’ Is Racist And Hitler-Like According To Newsweek

In a year where we learned that trees and milk are racist, It’s probably not all that surprising that saying “Merry Christmas” is on par with a hate crime. According to Newsweek, not only is this holiday greeting racist, doing so pretty much makes you Hitler. Yup, this sorry leftist rag masquerading as a news source has managed to link “Merry Christmas” with the Nazis.

You think I’m kidding about this? Here’s a real headline that Newsweek thought was news: HOW TRUMP AND THE NAZIS STOLE CHRISTMAS TO PROMOTE WHITE NATIONALISM

The article is as unhinged as the headline. It starts out by griping that President Trump has frequently said that it’s okay to say “Merry Christmas” again. They accuse Trump of waging war on those who have been waging a war on Christmas.

Now here’s where the Newsweek article goes completely off the rails of sanity:

Wishing people “merry Christmas” instead of “happy holidays,” is thus in line with Trump’s decision to ban citizens of Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States…It fits neatly with his refusal to condemn white supremacists when they march against diversity, and with his condemnation of athletes who protest police brutality against black men.

With this in mind, the fight to end the war on Christmas is exclusionary politics at its most flagrant.

Don’t just take Newsweek’s word for it, they went out and found an “expert.” Richard King is a liberal professor who, “studies how white supremacists exploit culture” because that’s apparently a thing and he thinks…

“I see such invocations of Christmas as a kind of cypher, what some would call a dog whistle. It does not appear to be intolerant or extreme, but to attentive audiences it speaks volumes about identity and belonging—who and what are fully American,” said King.

And everyone knows that liberal college professors have the best opinions about everything.

“Much like ‘Make America Great Again,’ panics over the protests by NFL players, and the defense of Confederate memory, Christmas is a way to talk about peril, to assert a soft or hard version of white nationalism,” King said.

You got that? Saying “Merry Christmas” is now asserting hard white nationalism, or in other words, very very racist. But how do the Nazis factor into all of this, you must be wondering:

Trump isn’t the first political figure in history to co-opt Christmas. In fact, some see parallels between Trump’s speeches in front of Christmas trees and attempts by authoritarian regimes like the Nazis to manipulate popular celebrations to promote a political ideology. But by weaponizing Christmas in this way, Trump is bringing a dangerous tradition of politicizing religious holidays into the United States…

In this context, Trump has been using the so-called war on Christmas to wage a culture war that pits multicultural liberals against Christian conservatives.

Likewise, Nazi Germany’s propagandists rooted their idea of Christmas in visions of ethno-nationalism. They rewrote the lyrics of Christmas carols, promoted Nazified holiday traditions and launched numerous Christmas charity events for poor Germans. The ultimate goal was to draw a clear line between those who belonged and those who should be excluded, those who could not benefit from the joys of Christmas.

That may be the dumbest thing ever written and the worst parallel ever drawn, but I do kind of like the the new term “Nazified.” I think it would be better used however to describe the increasingly fascist left, who now thinks that people celebrating the birth of Christ are racist monsters.

Finally there is a competing dumb statement from another Newsweek expert. Joe Perry (not Aerosmith’s guitarist) is some guy who wrote a book and he thinks this:

“Trump and the Nazis share aspects of race-baiting and perhaps broader aspects of extreme conservatism—many political ideologies do,” said Perry.

Yeah, nobody on the left ever race-baits *cough* Sharpton *cough* Jackson *cough* every liberals ever *cough*. Also, Nazis were fascists, which is a leftist ideology. Leftists are not conservatives nor is conservatism “extremist” by any stretch of the imagination.

While all of this seems very stupid it’s actually good news. We now have another fun and simple way to trigger a hysterical liberal reaction. Simply wish a lefty a Merry Christmas and then sit back and watch the hilarity. It’s like shaking a bottle of carbonated crazy and then seeing it opened in a liberal’s face.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, RESISTANCE!

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