Anti-Christmas moron of the day: Ban Rudolph!
Rudolph Derangement Syndrome
I know. It’s too early on a Monday for Grinches. These people are so tiresome and joyless, they aren’t worth mustering up outrage over — just pity.
Pity the Rudolph-basher:
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was almost grounded at Murrayville Elementary School this week after a parent complained about the classic Christmas song’s inclusion in her daughter’s upcoming kindergarten concert.
The objecting parent was upset about the words “Christmas” and “Santa” in the song, feeling that they carried religious overtones.
That prompted the song to be pulled from the upcoming holiday concert, which in turn upset more parents.
…“They have clearly decided that any other religion or custom is not important,” the objecting parent said after learning about the reversal on “Rudolph.” She asked that her name not be published, to shield her daughter’s identity.
The mother, who is Jewish, said she was trying to have a Hanukkah song added to the musical lineup but had not received a return phone call about it from school officials by mid-afternoon Friday.
…Sean Dwyer, whose daughter is also in the kindergarten class, had complained Friday morning about Rudolph getting muzzled.
Friday afternoon he said he thought school officials had made the right call by reinstating the popular Christmas song.
“It wasn’t my point in the beginning whether it was about religion or not,” Dwyer said. “The children have been learning this for weeks, and some person was trying to push their own personal feeling and agenda for this for their own child alone, and you just don’t do that.”
But until late Friday morning, Rudolph wasn’t going anywhere.
Murrayville Principal Julie Duclos said the school decided to pull the song after the parent complained “to make sure that we were actually paying attention to everybody’s interest, that we were not choosing somebody’s interest over another.”
“If we had enough time in the PTA program to sing a song for every single interest and value system, then we could do it,” she said. “But when you can’t do that, you go to universal values that are agreed on by every faith, every denomination. We wouldn’t want to leave anybody out.”
Like Glenn Beck says, “Happy RamaHanuKwanzMas!” It’s the PC time of year:
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The PC thought police are watching!!!!
Crap like this is why I am seriously considering having the twins educated overseas.
The PC thought police are watching!!!!
Crap like this is why I am seriously considering having the twins educated overseas.
Speaking of twins….
One nutjob has to ruin it for everyone else. Why is it that the people who get determine the proper level of tolerance are the most neurotically hyper-sensitive people in our society?
Reindeer puckey. She asked that her name not be published so that other people won’t know what a snipe she is.
People like this (even the cowardly Anonymous ones) are really deserving of pity. I can’t imagine what it must be like to go through life being constantly offended by random nonsense.
Wow…holidays must be really fun in this house!
Seriously – if this parent objects so strongly to her daughter even singing “Christmas” and “Santa”…what a miserable, joyless childhood. Further proof that if you scratch an atheist, you find a fundamentalist.
And why doesn’t she just respectfully withdraw her child from the program?
I mean, it’s not like in Canada, where it’s a hate crime to take your child out of a lesson you find objectionable. So stop being a Grinch.
And – before you liberals even say it – the girl will just have to deal with being singled out. Her mother choses to offend the majority of Americans who either celebrate Christmas for religious reasons, or have sense enough to realize there is a secularized version of the holiday, too. This mother has no right to infringe upon the rights of her 20+ classmates and school to celebrate Christmas as they see fit.
Last time I checked, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was NOT a religious song. That poor kid is in for years of therapy.
Where’s Adam Sandler when you need him?
YET…
Bingo, CCS. As I said in another thread, what a sad, pathetic life it must be to feel offense at the slightest provacation, and to feel hatred at the smallest perceived wrong.
I don’t feel as sorry for the parent as I do the child, however.
Okay…now, wait a minute. She’s Jewish, and wants a Hanukkah song added…but objects to other songs’ “religious overtones” (and a song that isn’t even religious, at that!)
Now, I’d have no problem adding in a Jewish, Hannukah song to the program. It is a holiday that falls at this time of year and some are really beautiful.
By why is political correctness always achieved through subtraction? “Oh, can’t offend Jewish students, so no Christmas songs!” “Oh, can’t offend Muslims, so no Jewish songs!” “Oh, can’t offend atheists, so no references to any holidays with even the slightest religious connection!” “Oh, can’t offend the perpetually-miserable, so no joy allowed!”
It’s a joke. Political correctness creates a desert, a culture devoid of anything but miserable people complaining all the time that they’re “offended” and someone else’s rights must be infringed upon to stop said offense.
EQ, that was poetry. Well put.
Reason No. 7845627271…. to homeschool your children. I wonder if the offended mother contributes to the ACLU?
Is the Dreidel song offensive too?
Adding to your point, EnglishQueen…
It’s not okay for 1 Jewish student to sing a Christmas song ( non-religious ), but it IS okay for 20 non-Jewish students to sing a Hannukah song ( most likely religious ). THAT would make the situation ok?
How about this – agree to sing the Hannukah song & then, in the interest of fairness, add “Silent Night”.
Let me guess … Obama supporter.
I am just glad to see that the other parents spoke out and let it be known what a crock this was. Good for them!
You know these schools should have whiplash the way they are constantly twisting their necks to please someone! I think they ought to just shut down schools period because the way they teach offends me!
I am one person and I should get my way!
What I find most offensive is the knee-jerk reaction because of ONE parents complaint………….
I wonder if this mother realizes that a reindeer is a kosher animal.
And yet she already outed herself as most likely the kids know who it is.
In a related topic: Have any of you noticed how PC ABC Family’s classic Christmas cartoon/stop-action specials have become?
I tried watching them with the kids a year or two ago, in an effort to share with them what my childhood Christmases were like, and the edits and deletes were so glaring and obvious that many of the shows had little to no continuity, or were just completely unwatchable due to lack of story.
Thank you. I’ve been trying for years to discribe the after affects of PC and ‘CULTURE DESERT” IS PERFECT.
Reading between the lines here it sounds like this lady wanted a Hanukkah song and used that song as a reason that the Hanukkah one be included. In typical bureaucrat fashion they pulled Rudolph instead.
Hannuka is a minor Jewish holiday. Kwansa is a fairly recent “made up” holiday by an ex-inmate, and Eid is a moving target based on when Ramadan falls.
Christmas has been the traditional holiday at the end of December that not only signifies the birth of Jesus but has been celebrated in this country by the giving of gifts; Santa Claus; Christmas carols; and familiar stories like Rudolph the Rednose reindeer.
Not only is this story a case where the one dictates to the many, it is endemic of the political correctness that is pervading this society. The best example are the stores refusing to use the word Christmas in their decorations and advertisements.
As far as I’m concerned, since they want to kick Christmas out of their stores, I’d say boycott them and let them depend on the “gift-giving” of those who celebrate Kwansa, Hannuka, and Eid for their sales revenue this Christmas.
I only purchase Christmas gifts from stores that say Merry Christmas rather than only “Happy Holidays”.
My nephew, who goes to public school, has been staying with us the past week while he’s out on “Winter” break. He had had a “Holiday” program at school and wanted to sing the songs to us that he had performed at school. Bless his little heart, he had no idea that “We Wish you a Merry Kwanza” was not the original lyric – which is the whole point, I guess. Later my husband said, “I’m so glad that we are homeschooling our son.” To which he added, “Let them get their own songs.” I left out a few words, but he wasn’t exactly feeling the “holiday” spirit at that precise moment.
Maybe Cranky the Offended Mom would prefer this one…
I certainly enjoyed it.
Has this mother not heard of Hebrew school?
*snort*
Seriously though… EQ nailed it. I have to wonder if there is any chance we will ever be able to stop this slide into the abyss.
The flying reindeer, the sleigh, etc., are all derived from Siberian shamanism.
The offended mom’s last name isn’t Broflovski by any chance? Does she have a son named Kyle?
Rudolph, the magenta-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose.
And if you ever saw him (or her) you would even say it glows (thanks to neo-con nuclear proliferation)
All of the other racists, bigots, and homophobic reindeer used to laugh and call him (or her) names,
They never let the obviously oppressed Rudolph join in any rightwing wacko games
Then one foggy Happy Holiday’s Eve
Santa, an icon of capitalism and what’s entirely wrong with Amerikka, came to say:
“Rudolph with your nose so bright,
won’t you guide my green powered small carbon footprint sleigh tonight?”
Then all the reindeer loved him (or her) as they spoke up using their outside voice with glee,
Rudolph the magenta-nosed reindeer,
you’ll go down, like most endangered species, in his (or her)tory!
Leftists will still claim the ‘War on Christmas’ is a myth concocted by Bill O’Reilly.
I’m a bisexual, pedophilic, sheep-loving, 1/8 Chicano 3/5 aborigini, post-operative tranny Wiccan priest. Where are my songs in the program? Since I have none, no one should have any. Tolerance!
You better accept me, you @#$#%?! bigots!
Let the name of Rudolph be stricken from every book and tablet. Stricken from every pylon and obelisk of Egypt. Let the name of Rudolph be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of man, for all time.
*snark*
PC bastages.
GEE!
BAD IMAGE FOR THE DAY.
If I had to pinpoint the one thing that was holding this country back from greatness, it was Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
I pray to Mother Earth, Al Gore, and THE ONE we stamped it out in time.
If the very words “Christmas” and “Santa” are so powerful, I hope this woman never lets her daughter leave the house in December. Shopping malls, grocery stores, even gas stations could be places of potential exposure. You just never know when a kid might run into a cardboard cutout of a fat guy in a red suit, and presto, next thing you know, the kid runs off to join the Southern Baptists.
Better unplug the TV and all radios, too. Who knows what profane words the tiny ears might hear during a commercial.
I’m just curious…what religion is Rudolph part of anyway? Scientology?
Yes – we can. MASSIVE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
Your kid’s school bans red and green colors? Merry Christmas? Cards? Gifts? Flood the school with all of them. Talk to other parents – most (even non-Christians) are likely to agree with you – and get them involved.
Are they really going to suspend an entire school because 95% of the kids show up in red and green, shout “Merry Christmas” in the halls, and exchange gifts and cards? Maybe. Some might be tyrannical and petty enough when their mandates are challenged.
Most will give in.
What’s the saying? “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance”? We only stop this slide into the abyss by fighting back.
Where’s the Festivus for the Restivus song and the Ramadan song and the Atheist song and the Agnostic song and the Ralians song and the hermit who lives in a cave in the desert and never comes out because he’s afraid of a bomb being dropped on his head’s song…
You have to be all-inclusive y’know!
PS: And, why are they only singing in English! Its racist to not sing in Spanish, Mongolian, etc…
Still need to see your birth certificate if your running for president.
Have you heard Mongolian throat singing?
AHHHH happy whatever???
Take this gift and never tell me what happens to it.
Well put. Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw once which read: “I’d rather be right than politically correct.”
Having gone to a very liberal public school myself, It’s well worth the sacrifices my wife and I make to send our kids to private school.
The song about a reindeer who isn’t accepted because he is different, then gains acceptance when everyone learns that everybody has value, is null and void by the tie to Christmas?
Jerk!
Sure thing lady, as soon as you can show me where in the constitution it says seperation of church and state.
Let’s make this one lady happy by telling her Rudolph was a North Polish Jew.
You know I hate to say it, but stuff like this is going to result in many school districts pulling most if not all music supports. Which is sad because of how music enriches the lives of people everywhere :/
Excuse me, but isn’t Christmas a federal holiday and therefor protected. If these PC crowds want to remove Christmas from our culture, they can petition congress. That should fun to watch.
Okay, I have to ask. What about the rest of the “Holiday” songs in the concert. Is Rudolph the only Christmas somg or the most religious?
Sorry for the violent imagery, but…I’d like to see the Abominable Snowman and Yukon Cornelius yank this woman’s head off and put it on top of the
Christmas, erHoliday?, Winter Solstice tree.Grow up. What a terrible example she is setting for her child.
Well, you just took everybody’s interest away…except for one lady.
Part of living in a free society is the right to be offended. These nuts need to get over themselves. We can’t take everthing out of the public area which might, at some time, be perseived as offensive to some super thinskinned wacko who wants 15 minutes of fame. The rest of us might like to enjoy the season without being reminded that not everyone is a christian.
Everybody I know celebrates Christmas including the Jewish and secular progressive people.
She should be sent to the Island of Misfit Toys
Right here, Ladd!!
Ridiculous.
May his beak keep blinkin’ like a blinkin’ beacon forever!
“I’m cute, I’m cute, she thinks I’m cuuuuttteee!”
Hopefully some bold individual will break into Handel’s Messiah and let “objecting parent who wished her name with held” deal with it.
A number of years they made a movie about Objecting Parent: The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. I would put that Objecting Parent’s name all over town. Objecting Parent denigrates Gene Autry’s version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer.
Saddle up Saturday Matinee cowboys-we ride at dawn!
I grew up with that song, my mother had it on LP. She was a huge Gene Autry fan when she was a child!
Ah me, always the peace maker…
Here’s some songs to celebrate the “Winter Festival” and not outrage the
intolerant fools’secular assertive’ among us:“We Three Leaders of Unspecific Gender From An Unnamed Asian Community Are.”
“Hark The Herald Imaginary Creatures Sing”
“I’ll Be In A Homeless Shelter For Kwanzaa”
“I’m Dreaming of a Race Immaterial Non-Religious-Specific Celebration in Winter”
“Guiding Influences We Have Sensed on High”
“Oh Come all Ye of Extreme Loyalty to Non-Material Evidence”
“Oh Population Challenged Suburban Village In Evil Jewish Occupied Palestine”
Come on! Everyone sing along!!!
Deck the halls with artificial boughs of non-endangered plant species
Fa la la la la, la la la la
‘Tis the season to be self-actualizing,
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Don we now our alternate-lifestyle apparel
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Toll the ancient non-denominational-winter-solstice-holiday carol
Fa la la la la, la la la la
See the blazing log of on-denominational-winter-solstice-holiday- non-endangered wood before us,
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Play the harp without unnecessary brutality and join the chorus
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Sing we emotionally stable in a collective group effort
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Heedless of the weather patterns despite the effects of global warming
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Fast away the chronologically challenged year passes
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Hail the new year without any implicit ageism, ye persons
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Dance in a non-hierarchical manner in merry measure,
Fa la la la la, la la la la
While I tell of non-materialistic, non-denominational-winter-solstice-holiday treasure
Fa la la la la, la la la la!!!
If you’re going to ban Rudolph, ban it because it’s boring and depressing, not because it talks about Christmas.
Seriously people – many issues here, but would someone pleeeaaasse show me the organized religion that involves Santa?
Let’s start by explaining Christmas…
On December 15th, 2008 at 12:19 pm, PKAmmoTroop said:
Ah me, always the peace maker…
Here’s some songs to celebrate the “Winter Festival” and not outrage the intolerant fools ’secular assertive’ among us:
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LOL!
“We wish you a green, eco-friendly, vegan Winter Solistice . . . and a funless New Year . . . “
The only country I know of where Jews aren’t a minority, is Israel. Jews have had to deal with being a minority for nearly two thousand years. Did she lose the memo?
Here’s a secret
A lot of the liturgy and lyrics used in Christian services come from Jewish sources. Jewish Psalms? Used every Sunday in the liturgy. And quite a few Christian hymns use Jewish Psalms for lyrics, either directly or by inspiration.
So who is it who has issues here?
This is a classic example of why the PC culture is doomed to failure, it involves a clash of values that can’t be resolved:
Rudolph has a physical deformity, his shiny nose. Banning songs about him is a violation of his civil rights under tha Americans With Disabilities Act.
This is the problem with this country, people think they have the right not to be offended.
Actually there are some Christian overtones to the Rudolph story.
Rudolph=Christ, both were rejected by the mainstream of society and gathered around them the weakest and least expected heroes.
Rudolph, like Christ wandered about, without a home, unwelcome where they came from. During their wanderings, they meet characters who were sick and also rejected by society because they didn’t fit in.
Like Christ who searched for the lost sheep and came for the sinners and healed the sick, Rudolph, rescued the misfit toys, healed the Abominable Snowman and cured Cornelius of his hate and anger.
Christ is the light of the world who brought the gift of forgiveness and salvation. His birth was heralded by the angels who sang, “Peace to men of goodwill.”
Rudolph’s nose lit the way so that Santa could bring gifts to all the good little girls and boys.
Rudolph was then accepted by everyone as a savior. Christ, of course, is the Savior and one day, every knee will bend in praise of His Glory.
Alright then. Replace that with Your a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.
And all of the students can say EXACTLY who inspired it!
I’ve been in this lady’s situation, and while I probably wouldn’t have handled it the same way as she did, I’d rather have all sides of the story before I pass judgment on her. Reading the full article makes it clear the the officials tried to put on a secular program, and not refer to one specific faith over another.
The problem is that while Santa and Rudolph aren’t religious figures, they aren’t exactly secular either. No they’re not based on scripture, BUT they pretty much give out gifts to one specific group of kids, and there’s only one religion I know of that has saints. To everyone that isn’t Christian, Santa is very much a religious figure.
Still, I don’t think that’s the meat of her complaint. It’s not that they didn’t include a Hanukkah song, it’s that they were supposed to be putting on a secular program, but when she finally finds out which songs they’re singing there’s a Christmas song included.
I deal with this issue every year, and I make it clear to the music faculty that while I don’t want to be “That Guy” who shits all over the kids’ concert, but non-scriptural does not equal secular.
Only if his shiny nose substantially limits a major life activity.
I am not sure being unable to participate in reindeer games would qualify.
My grandson’s third grade put on a “Holiday” concert. It was the most PC program I had ever heard. The theme was “gifts without wrappings.” The first song alluded to how much trouble is in the world (with the kids chanting “Tsunamis, disasters, hunger…” in the background and how noble it was to give. The kids wore white shirts, no Jesus, no carols, just Santa Claus.
I didn’t say anything to him, but my eldest grandson and I just looked at each other, shook our heads, and sang Christmas carols on the way home.
C’mon now, they used to laugh and call him names!
I’m pretty sure Title IX covers that.
They ended up eliminating the reindeer games because they didn’t have gender-based parity in participation and funding. It’s a shame, really.
The train with the square wheels was definitely disabled. The cowboy riding the ostrich was living an alternative lifestyle. The Bird Fish in a Hindu god. The Unwanted Doll had all sorts of psychological issues stemming from her fear of abandonment and crippling depression.
All victims in our society, deserving of special treatment and entitled to help from the government.
On the other hand, Rudolph was straight, able to work, and used what the good Lord gave him to better his life.
If anything, we’d be taxing Rudolph as a working citizen. We’d also make him buy carbon credits, as his nose would most certainly give off heat, warming the planet to unsustainable conditions.
if ya don’t like what’s on change the channel….it’s not like there isn’t more than 3 network stations on the air anymore…geeze…PC is and will be our undoing…
Was Yukon Cornelius Canadian? That might qualify as a disability, what with their high tax rates and nationalized health care.
That’s why as soon as my daughter was born, we started saving for Catholic school. I just wish 50% of my property taxes didn’t get sent to the public school. They don’t even like to mark Christmas on the calendar.
It’s probably a good thing that schools are generally not in session on July 4. Imagine the outrage from the left if schools allowed kids to even read the Declaration of Independence let alone celebrate it?
They simply HATE AMERICA including just about every single piece of American history and tradition that got us here going back to the Pilgrims.
And nyk thought she was the only one.
This time last year in the business district of San Francisco they had a Sit with Santa Photo display up for only two days.
Instead of the usual elves and reindeers they had Polar Bears and Seals…. uhhh, OKAY!!!!
Happy PCdays!!!!
How much government funding does THAT bring in? You could give Jesse Jackson 1 & 2 a run for the title! You could be Secretary of Something for BroBama.
I assume you’ll be moving to Illinois or Massachusetts? I would suggest New York but Caroline Kennedy would gut you like a fish.
Dude, would you let your kid sit in a stranger’s lap in SF?
Every since I heard this story I have been suspicious of Rudolph. I think we all ought to take a second look at him before singing his praises…
Rudolph is, like, the least religious Christmas song ever.
The extreme secularization of schools just gets dumber and dumber. One year when I was in college and Easter and Passover were on the same day, the school still wouldn’t schedule spring break during that time period. Wouldn’t acknowledge anything religious even if it was a special day for two different major world religions.
This kind of PC stupidity has reached moronic levels. The idea that the state cannot acknowledge that Christians exist and celebrate holidays is beyond comprehension. The fact that Christmas has become highly secularized and is celebrated by Hindus and Jews and others of different faiths seems to make no difference to the PC crowd. It is now meaningless, non-religious symbols like Rudolph the red-nosed Reindeer they object to. This is nonsense and lunacy.
merry freaking christmas. ugh….
Careful, man. With the nutjobs that are running both houses of congress now, and the republicans who just roll over for them, this kind of thing could actually happen.
Careful, man. With the nutjobs that are running both houses of congress now, and the republicans who just roll over for them, this kind of thing could actually happen.
Maybe we just need to do away with schools.
We have done away with public schools in my home. Our house is a “public school free zone” and our kids are learning about faith and religion and all manner of subversive ideas like the constitution, original intent, limited federal government, etc.