Laurent Courtines – MeowSplash

Please do not get me wrong. I love the Jews, I love the Muslims, Black people,  Yellow,  Brown whatever you got,  I like them- I love diversity.  Without differences we wouldn’t have ethnic jokes. Plus I live in New York City and have my whole life – you basically can’t be a racist (well you can be but only if you live in a far flung neighborhood in Queens or Brooklyn).  It makes no sense IN Manhattan to be racist. Lastly I come from a sweet mixed up background – Papa (that’s what we call him, but with a French accent) is a French Monarchist – Bronx Jew mix who was raised entirely Catholic and Mama (also in a French accent) is a Puerto Rican (who are an intrinsically mixed people as it is)

My point—oh yeah.  Basically,  I can say what I want when it comes to racially or ethnically insensitive things.  That brings me back to “Happy Holidays“  I hate it.  Whether we like it or not,  Christmas in the United States has lost any of it’s religious meaning.  It has nothing to do with Christians – and has everything to do with buying shit.  In fact I would venture to say it the ultimate American holiday.   Can we just get ride of the catch-all “Happy Holidays” crap?

Why are you getting so fire up?  Who really cares?  Well,  no one.  I get that.  It’s just that we complicate things all the time with extra words, new phrases, new terms etc.  Orwell was right in his book “1984″ except he got it backwards.  Instead of reducing the the dictionary with Newspeak we’re adding to it with “WeakSpeak”  Everything is losing it’s meaning.  Think about it?  Happy Holidays? What does that mean?  Can I use it at Memorial Day?  Can I say it to an English person when the go “on holiday”  It’s Merry Christmas because it the words MEAN SOMETHING.  Anyway.  I’m done. (and no I am not re-reading or editing, it’s my site dammit)