So the holidays are upon us, and this is the time of year people are at their stupidest, racially.
For example, people get offended seeing a fucking tree decorated with things and shit because their definition of such decorations on a tree equates to the word "Christmas", which in turn equates to a religion other than their own and therefore is offensive. Fuck those assholes.
Well, off to Texas we go now :
Town In Uproar After JPMorgan Tells Man To Remove Christmas Tree Because It Will Offend People
Courtney Comstock, On Friday December 3, 2010, 9:09 am EST
A Texas town is in an uproar over a Christmas tree that was removed from a branch of Chase bank because it was considered offensive.
A business man who says he's "known for his Christmas trees," (seriously - he said that and he also said he "enjoys the Christmas season so much that he decorated 35 trees at his home") donated the tree to his bank, the Southlake, Texas branch of Chase, so that it could display it in the lobby.
A day later, JPMorgan told the bank's branch managers to remove the tree.
Here's the explanation a spokesman for JPMorgan gave to the Star-Telegram:
Greg Hassell, a JPMorgan Chase spokesman, said that the company's policy isn't anti-Christmas. "People wish their customers merry Christmas when it's appropriate," he said.
However, to ensure that everyone who visits Chase branches feels welcome and comfortable, the bank's policy is to use only decorations supplied by the company.
"We appreciate the thoughtful gesture from Mr. Morales," Hassell said. "Unfortunately, we're unable to keep it [the tree] on display for the remainder of the holiday season." JPMorgan Chase ensures that decorations are "something everyone is comfortable with, regardless of how they celebrate the season," Hassell said.
So the bank doesn't want to alienate anyone who doesn't celebrate Christmas by putting up only a tree, and in order to insure it doesn't, it's a company policy to only display company decorations.
So we understand where JPMorgan is coming from. It might have been a little more spirited to tell the bank to put the other decorations up early, but whatever, we get it. Boy, are we in the minority.
Bryan Fischer, the director of issue analysis for the American Family Association, told the Star-Telegram that Chase's decision is "absurd."
"According to Advertising Age, 91 percent of American people celebrate Christmas," he said. "That means that the single most inoffensive thing you can do at this time of year is wish someone a merry Christmas."
And Antonio Morales, the man donated the tree, defended himself by saying, "I put a tree up in [my landlord's] office," he said. "It doesn't offend him, and he's Jewish."
The issue here that the town doesn't seem to get is that JPMorgan is not against Christmas trees.
Here's proof. The bank's New York headquarters decorated for Christmas last year with a Menorah, 2 or 3 Christmas trees (if I remember correctly), and non-denominational decorations like mistletoe and strings of lights.
But that's not good enough for Fischer, who thinks that JPMorgan is involved in some sort of a mass scheme to belittle Christmas.
He told the Star-Telegram:
that companies that have gotten away from acknowledging Christmas claim that they do it because they want to be inclusive (the bolding is ours).
... But what? They do it because they hate Christmas?
That's silly. Only a Scrooge hates Christmas.
But anyway, the debate here has oddly become, did JPMorgan really remove the tree because it's company policy? Or because they didn't want to offend people, and thus the bank misunderstands Americans and has no Christmas spirit?
WTF. What in the fuck is wrong with people to be offended by a fucking tree!
If you're offended by a tree, you've got some serious fuckin' mental problems, buddy.
If you're offended by things, materials, stuff, intentions, well-wishing behaviours, you've got an even more serious mental problem and should probably just do away with yourself or go back where you come from. It's nothing short of a miracle that people, for such a short amount of time, actually do nice things for others, having some racially sorry mother fuckers piss themselves in a huff over a fuckin' tree with lights is even shorter than paradox and more so an atrocity.
What the fuck is so wrong with people that they need an entire series and collections of governments (minus those that actually do the right thing and give anyone those attempt at changing their conservative ways a big FUCK YOU) to step in and say "ok, take all those nice things, despite them being with the utmost positive and wonderful intention, down, or shove them up your ass, whatever feels adequate, because you're OFFENDING someone, a strict, low, low, low, low, low minority that don't even originate from here, but have more say and power than your sorry, festive, generous, happy ass".
Apparently tolerance is a one-way shit-stain that is only enforced by those that aren't offended.
As for myself, I'm always mother fuckin' offended when I read about shit like people not respecting others, yet demand practially to gunpoint that those very same others respect them!
Merry Christmas! And a big fuck you to those that are offended by those words. Suck me balls
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