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joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 03:57 PM
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Conservative wants to "Kill Kwanzaa"
How to Kill Kwanzaa

by A.M. Siriano
siriano@amsiriano.com

If Kwanzaa is simply a celebration of African culture by people of African descent, I have no trouble with it. After all, the Greeks have their celebrations, and the Mexicans, and the Chinese, and just about every other ethnic group in America. So why should I care that Kwanzaa is a “made-up holiday,” as I so often hear? After all, someone, somewhere, got the idea that we should start hanging silly colored lights on our houses and firs every December. The “made-up” argument just doesn’t fly, unless history no longer involves, um, the past.

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But even if Karenga is a charlatan and a creep, shouldn’t we allow Kwanzaa to stand on its own? After all, I have defended Christmas and Easter against legalists who bemoan their pagan beginnings. The fact is, the heathen elements have long been supplanted by Christian ones, so again, I ask, why should I care?

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Okay, I take it all back! Is it safe to assume that Kwanzaa is a disguised form of communistic ideology that yearns for one-world government? Can you say “Lenin,” “Castro” … “Soros”? Enlist me in the struggle to take Kwanzaa down, folks. I don’t advocate gun-totin’ insurrection … at least not yet … but why not fight this nonsense with some of the very tools that the enemy has used against Judeo-Christian traditionalism for centuries? Disrespect, ridicule, scorn.

And so, an idea: Let’s turn Kwanzaa into an obscenity. The liberals did this to the name of God, and they have worked wonders. The result of years of over-familiarity and abuse has turned “God” into a meaningless, innocuous word, thus helping to render His laws and principles so much garbage to our atheist-tainted minds. If it can work against the very Creator of the Universe, surely it can work against a made-up holiday!

A few examples:

* You’re nothing but a piece of kwanzaa.

* Kwanzaa you, loser!

* Get off the road, kwanzaa-kween!

* Shut yer pie-hole, ya filthy kwanzaa!

* Take this job and shove it up your kwanzaa!


http://www.therealitycheck.org/GuestColumnist/amsiriano122804.htm

Isn't this the same technique Rascist use when they created the "N word?"

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PaganWarrior/

"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion, but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."-- Thomas Paine
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 04:02 PM
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1. who died and made them king of the universe?
I am all for doing away with conservatives. It would lower the cost of dog food and fertilizer for one thing, help save the economy, the environment and our constitution.

The rest of the world might actually start liking us again, tentatively, and GLOBAL WARMING WOULD BE SOLVED because all that hot air from those assholes on legs would be gone!

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Jackie97 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 10:45 AM
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11. Yeah, but....
doing away with conservatives wouldn't make us liberal like. Social conservatives are the ones most of the time against tolerance, not most of us.

Besides, BS would just start up in other countries because....

1) Most of the world still has a lot of conservatives. They're the third world. They know their own ways and probably aren't interested in others. Once they industrialize, this might change. Of course, they don't necessarily want to industrialize.

2) Assholes wanting world domination would just pop up in England, Russia, and France. That's human nature. The US is hated right now as the super power. That will change in the future. Hopefully, the next superpower won't be as ruthless though. The US actually can be better than past super powers to a point. Past super powers never saw it as their duty to give aid to others, just take from them. That's the evolving nature of conscience. England and most other industrialized countries would be the same way. Hopefully, the next super power will be even less ruthless than us.
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 04:06 PM
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2. What a ass. nt.
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Ranec Donating Member (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:39 PM
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3. I enjoy this type of reasoning...
Edited on Wed Dec-29-04 05:39 PM by Ranec
"I don't celebrate or even understand the holiday, therfore it must be destroyed."

Hmmm...All of this conservative BS about holidays has lead me to actually read something

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/kwanzaa1.html

and

http://slate.msn.com/id/1041/

Now I feel better, and maybe I learned something.

Maswera sei? Habari Gani?
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Biased Liberal Media Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 08:55 PM
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4. What grade is he in? n/t
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seaj11 Donating Member (506 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 01:22 PM
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5. "You're nothing but a piece of kwanzaa"?
Three words: :wtf:
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seaj11 Donating Member (506 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 01:29 PM
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6. Just read that piece of shit...
Only a pathologically paranoid nutjob could get communism out of Kwanzaa. (Restraining myself from complaining about RW nutjobs' demonization of communism.) And he thinks followers will feel "scummy" when practicing their newly demonized religion? Please, get yourself a real "reality check."
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joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 04:19 PM
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7. Please note the Author's e-mail address ;-)

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Lone_Wolf_Moderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 02:31 AM
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8. I don't get how he got communism from Kwanzaa either.
I will take issue with your asserion that communism doesn't need to be demonized though. Communism sucks.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 08:17 PM
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9. Liberals are responsible for making "God" a curse word?
Wow. I had no idea that we had been so powerful for so long.
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Jackie97 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 10:38 AM
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10. Somebody give this man his cocoa puffs.
He's going cuckoo.

When will we finally get rid of the McCarthyists?

I love how he claims that we tried to destroy certain Christian ideas. No idiot, we fight for our right to not have it forced on us. Furthermore, we never demanded an end to Christmas.
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Stop_the_War Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 09:24 PM
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12. I Love Kwanzaa
and I'm Irish
:) :) :) :) :)
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:26 AM
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13. The writer has hit the right wing trifecta of
stupid, mean, and crazy. :eyes:
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