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To: Lane3 who wrote (6785)	12/13/2005 8:02:40 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 542193

That amounts to what I called "expressions of it", and apparently these expression are indeed hostile. But I think "Anti-anti Christmas" would cover more than just those expressions. Tim

To: Lane3 who wrote (6785)	12/13/2005 9:05:17 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542193

The anti-anti-Christmas guy compared the holiday-tree folks to Nazis. You know that when someone brings up that particular n-word, he's over the top. Who posted the Wonkette comment, which I can't completely recall, the one that went something like when someone complains about the persecution of Christians in the US given the Happy Holiday talk, you know you are in the presence of a retard? I wish I could remember it exactly.

To: Lane3 who wrote (6785)	12/16/2005 5:13:30 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542193

Exapnding on my last response. "Anti-anti-Christmas" can mean someone who reacts with hostility or even law suits or violence to any attempt to have a "Holiday party" rather then a "Christmas party", or even to secular Christmas trappings rather then Christian religous trappings (Santa Claus rather then Jesus). That's one extreme. That is hostility, and it might be untempered. But it could also be used to refer to people who are responding to a similar extreme from the other side. The people who complain to HR that at a holiday party someone sang Christmas carols. It can also apply to people who make a mild and measured complaints against more mild anti-Christmas statements or actions. Calling people Nazis because they put up a tree and call it a holiday tree, is both over the top, and hostile. But just asking "why can't you call it a Christmas tree?" isn't either. Tim