We can’t seem to get through the holiday season without some prominent conservative declaring the PC-brigade is waging a war on Christmas, and this year is no exception.
Taking up the fight this time is commentator Prue MacSween — yes, the woman who told Sunrise‘s infamous Indigenous affairs panel last year that “just like the first Stolen Generation where a lot of children that were taken because it was for their own wellbeing, we need to do it again, perhaps”.
MacSween logged on to Twitter yesterday to complain that a four-year-old boy was upset at Myer Bondi Junction after seeing a woman dressed as Santa Claus. “Why are we traumatising little kids with this gender nonsense,” MacSween asked, before going on to liken the practice to “child abuse”.
It’s a lot to unpack. But even putting aside the claim that a woman dressing up as a fictional man amounts to an attack on Christmas, gender, and the family unit, something about MacSween’s allegations just doesn’t stack up.
As Guardian Australia journalist Naaman Zhou noted on Twitter, according to Myer’s website, there is no Santa Claus at its Bondi Junction store.
Which means one of two things. Either the child — well-versed in “stranger-danger” — was simply calling out a store-Santa imposter, or the lady Saint Nick was a figment of a MacSween fever-dream.
Do we really need to know about all the petty stuff these panjandrums blow on about to each other? The big stuff is bad enough without adding frills.
Its hilarious that these dimwits can declare a “war on Christmas”, when Christmas decorations are on full display-in our Malls-as early as October…..or even September in some cases. Same is true of Easter, where Hot Cross Buns & Easter Eggs will show up on shelves as early as late January.
If Christmas shopping seems a little more laid back this year, perhaps it is far better explained by 6 years of stagnant wages, & not some concocted “war on Christmas”. Oh, but the Murdoch apparatchiks would never suggest the former, as that would be an attack on their own Far Right ideology.
An example of why Australia needs to spend lots more money on mentally disturbed people.
So ‘gender nonsense’ is child abuse, but lying to children about the existence of a supernatural being (Santa) for about 8 years isn’t? Or lying to children about the existence of a supernatural being (god) for all of their lives?
All this woman needs is a pointed hat and a broom, she has everything else required to become a full blown witch, these conservatives are really horrible types, like Kerry Anne hasbeen on channel 10, and these other media outlets and radio channels shock jocks who continue driving their advertisers and customers away in droves then wonder why .