{"id":1004,"date":"2007-12-16T17:07:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jochenenglish.de\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2007-12-19T13:47:33","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T12:47:33","slug":"politically-correct-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"Politically Correct Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pas\u00adsend zur Jah\u00adres\u00adzeit von <strong>Phil\u00adipp Winn<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201aTwas the night befo\u00adre Christ\u00admas, and San\u00adta was a wreck.<br>\nHow to live in a world that\u2019s poli\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly cor\u00adrect?<br>\nHis workers no lon\u00adger would ans\u00adwer to \u201eElves\u201c.<br>\n\u201eVer\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly Chal\u00adlen\u00adged,\u201c they were cal\u00adling themselves;<\/p>\n<p>And labor con\u00addi\u00adti\u00adons at the North Pole<br>\nWere alle\u00adged by the uni\u00adons to stif\u00adle the soul.<br>\nThe reinde\u00ader had vanis\u00adhed, wit\u00adhout much pro\u00adprie\u00adty,<br>\nReleased to the wilds by the Huma\u00adne Society.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And equal employ\u00adment had made it quite clear<br>\nThat San\u00adta had bet\u00adter not use just reinde\u00ader.<br>\nSo Dancer and Don\u00adner, Comet and Cupid,<br>\nWere repla\u00adced by four pigs, and you know that loo\u00adked stupid!<\/p>\n<p>The run\u00adners had all been remo\u00adved from his sleigh;<br>\nThe ruts were ter\u00admed dan\u00adge\u00adrous by the EPA.<br>\nAnd peo\u00adp\u00adle had star\u00adted to call for the cops<br>\nWhen they heard sled noi\u00adses on their roof-tops.<\/p>\n<p>Smo\u00adke from his pipe had workers quite frigh\u00adten\u00aded.<br>\nHis fur-trim\u00admed suit was cal\u00adled, \u201eunen\u00adligh\u00adten\u00aded.\u201c<br>\nAnd to show you the stran\u00adgen\u00adess of life\u2019s ebbs and flows,<br>\nRudolph was suing over use of his&nbsp;nose.<\/p>\n<p>He had gone on Geral\u00addo, in front of the nati\u00adon,<br>\nDeman\u00adding mil\u00adli\u00adons in over-due com\u00adpen\u00adsa\u00adti\u00adon.<br>\nSo, half of the reinde\u00ader were gone; and his wife,<br>\nWho sud\u00adden\u00adly said she\u2019d enough of this&nbsp;life,<\/p>\n<p>Joi\u00adn\u00aded a self-help group, packed, left in a whiz,<br>\nDeman\u00adding from now on her title was Ms.<br>\nAnd as for the gifts, he\u2019d never had a noti\u00adon<br>\nThat making a choice could cau\u00adse so much commotion.<\/p>\n<p>Not\u00adhing of lea\u00adther, not\u00adhing of fur,<br>\nWhich meant not\u00adhing for him, and not\u00adhing for her.<br>\nNot\u00adhing that might be con\u00adstrued to pol\u00adlu\u00adte.<br>\nNot\u00adhing to aim, not\u00adhing to&nbsp;shoot.<\/p>\n<p>Not\u00adhing that clamo\u00adred or made lots of noi\u00adse.<br>\nNot\u00adhing for just girls, or just for the boys.<br>\nNot\u00adhing that clai\u00admed to be gen\u00adder spe\u00adci\u00adfic,<br>\nNot\u00adhing that\u2019s war\u00adli\u00adke, or non-pacifistic.<\/p>\n<p>No can\u00addy or sweets \u2013 they were bad for the tooth<br>\nNot\u00adhing that see\u00admed to embel\u00adlish a truth.<br>\nAnd fairy tales, while not yet for\u00adbidden,<br>\nWere like Ken and Bar\u00adbie, bet\u00adter off hidden.<\/p>\n<p>They rai\u00adsed the hack\u00adles of tho\u00adse psy\u00adcho\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal,<br>\nWho clai\u00admed the only good gift was eco\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal.<br>\nNo base\u00adball, no foot\u00adball, someone could get hurt;<br>\nBes\u00adi\u00addes, play\u00ading sports expo\u00adsed kids to&nbsp;dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Dolls were said to be sexist, and should be pas\u00adse.<br>\nNin\u00adten\u00addo would rot your enti\u00adre brain away.<br>\nSo San\u00adta just stood the\u00adre, dis\u00adhe\u00adve\u00adled, per\u00adple\u00adxed;<br>\nHe just could not figu\u00adre out what to do&nbsp;next.<\/p>\n<p>He tried to be mer\u00adry, he tried to be gay,<br>\nBut you\u2019\u00adve got to be careful with that word today.<br>\nHis sack was quite emp\u00adty, limp to the ground;<br>\nNot\u00adhing accep\u00adta\u00adble was to be&nbsp;found.<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00adthing spe\u00adcial was nee\u00added, a gift that he might<br>\nGive to all wit\u00adhout ange\u00adring the left or the right.<br>\nA gift that would satis\u00adfy, with no inde\u00adcis\u00adi\u00adon,<br>\nEach group of peo\u00adp\u00adle, every religion;<\/p>\n<p>Every eth\u00adni\u00adci\u00adty, every skin hue;<br>\nEver\u00adyo\u00adne, ever\u00ady\u00adwhe\u00adre \u2013 even you.<br>\nSo here is that gift, it\u2019s pri\u00adced bey\u00adond worth -<br>\n\u201eMay you and your loved ones enjoy peace on&nbsp;earth.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pas\u00adsend zur Jah\u00adres\u00adzeit von Phil\u00adipp Winn: \u201aTwas the night befo\u00adre Christ\u00admas, and San\u00adta was a wreck. How to live in a world that\u2019s poli\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly cor\u00adrect? His workers no lon\u00adger would ans\u00adwer to \u201eElves\u201c. \u201eVer\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly Chal\u00adlen\u00adged,\u201c they were cal\u00adling them\u00adsel\u00adves; And labor con\u00addi\u00adti\u00adons at the North Pole Were alle\u00adged by the uni\u00adons to stif\u00adle the&nbsp;soul.&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}