War On Christmas Competition Announcement 2014: We Didn't Start The Fire!
The Daily Beast’s Max Blumenthal blamed us for the “War On Christmas” in 2008
There are three points you need to know about the War On Christmas.
- There IS a War On Christmas.
- There is ALSO War On Christmas Denial.
- It wasn`t conservatives, Christians, Fox News or just plain Americans who created the War on Christmas—they’re the ones fighting back
VDARE.com and its Editor Peter Brimelow have been involved in this struggle since the late twentieth century, but it didn’t start there—we’ve dug up editorials in National Review from 1957 [Krismas, November 26, 1955] and Adam Cohen of the New York Times dug up protests from the early twentieth century [This Season`s War Cry: Commercialize Christmas, or Else, December 4, 2005]
In fact, the War On Christmas goes back much further—it was one of the murderous obsessions of Soviet Communism after the Revolution. As Peter Brimelow commented on Nina Markovna’s 1989 memoir of growing up in the Soviet Crimea:
One point that emerges quickly is the sheer scale and nightmare intensity of Stalin`s purges. One of Markovna`s childhood memories is of inadvertently betraying her mother to a night of NKVD interrogation by remarking to a teacher that sugar was common before the Revolution. Another is of watching her mother and her aunt agreeing instantly to part forever after her uncle`s deportation and death, fearing that further contact would attract informers and doom their children. Her uncle`s crime: dressing a Christmas tree. .
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