{"id":8341,"date":"2017-12-18T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=8341"},"modified":"2017-12-18T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T07:00:10","slug":"monday-musings-war-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/monday-musings-war-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"#MondayMusings &#8211; The War on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Monday Musings<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Happy-Hanukkah-Tags-Dark-Blue.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9862 size-thumbnail lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Happy-Hanukkah-Tags-Dark-Blue-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Happy-Hanukkah-Tags-Dark-Blue-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Happy-Hanukkah-Tags-Dark-Blue-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Happy-Hanukkah-Tags-Dark-Blue-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Happy-Hanukkah-Tags-Dark-Blue-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Happy-Hanukkah-Tags-Dark-Blue.jpg 700w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a>The &#8220;War on Christmas&#8221; is exactly how privilege works. \u00a0Once society moves toward inclusion: Happy Holidays (which includes Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, and Festivus). \u00a0Those in a privileged position, because they are the dominant group, experience this inclusion as persecution.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not persecution, it&#8217;s simply acknowledging\u00a0others as equally important in celebrating American traditions. Insisting only &#8220;your&#8221; holiday be acknowledged, as a matter of right, is an unacceptable demonstration of high-handed privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing America was more homogeneous, and that minorities were invisible or of no consequence, is not going to bring back the 1950&#8217;s. \u00a0We have moved on as a culture and the tide of minority demographics won&#8217;t abate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kwanzaa11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9863 size-thumbnail lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kwanzaa11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kwanzaa11-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kwanzaa11-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kwanzaa11-300x300.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a>Isn&#8217;t enough that the stores and streets and commercial buildings are flooded with images of Santa, reindeer, candy canes, elves, and Christmas Trees. \u00a0Can a small gesture like &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; give some acknowledgement that others celebrate in a variety of different ways.<\/p>\n<p>The (usually) Angry White Male insisting on Merry Christmas is the frustrated cry of someone not willing\u00a0to share the toys. \u00a0Which is antithetical to what Christmas is really about in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#MondayMusings &#8211; Christmas Isn&#8217;t Under Threat To Anyone But The Privileged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[25,26,1328,27,28,30,31,32,33,115,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42],"class_list":["post-8341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monday-musings","tag-character","tag-characters","tag-christmas","tag-emotional-toolbox","tag-etb","tag-film","tag-films","tag-laurie-hutzler","tag-movies","tag-musings","tag-nine-character-types","tag-screenplay","tag-screenplays","tag-screenwriting","tag-script","tag-scripts","tag-scriptwriting","tag-tv","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"ttshowcase_normal":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg",125,70,false],"ttshowcase_small":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg",75,42,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg",1280,720,false],"Image Size 500x500":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg",500,281,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault-300x400.jpg",300,400,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg",600,338,false],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maxresdefault-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Laurie Hutzler","author_link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"#MondayMusings - Christmas Isn't Under Threat To Anyone But The Privileged","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}