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November 16, 2009
Massachusetts Parents Equate Santa Claus with the Nazi Swastika
Posted by The MaryHunter at November 16, 2009 6:58 PM
The annual Assault on Christmas is revving up this year. Dateline Chelmsford, MA, specifically the Byam Elementary School:
Kathryn McMillan and Kathleen Cullen, who both have children at Byam, asked school officials to allow all holiday items at the gift shop following a ban on Santa, candy canes, stockings, and all Christmas, Hanukkah and other "religious items."
But a meeting with some PTO parents on Thursday night grew heated as emotions got in the way.
"One of the parents said, 'If we allow Santa, what do we say if a child brings in a swastika? Do we allow that too?' "
McMillan said. "All I could think of was, are you kidding? You're comparing a Christmas ornament to a swastika? It seems as if reason is lost somewhere and I just hope we can find it again."
It seems that wrapping paper can even be banned by the bonkers Byam PC police:
Red and green tissue paper to wrap presents was also crossed off the list because it looked too "Christmasy," McMillan said.
I'm wondering if the school had a Halloween gift shop that at least allowed sales of wicken paraphanalia. Indeed, Chelmsford appears only a brimstone's throw away from invoking that tired old meme equating Santa with Satan.
The resemblance is certainly startling. (Thankfully in black and white.)
On a tip from Anonymous Countermoonbat.
