A politically correct Easter?

[Sakurazaki1023]

I'm not particularly religious, and I still find this mind-numbingly stupid.

This knee-jerk political correctness needs to stop before things start getting even more pathetic then they are all ready. How much longer until Christians decide that Halloween supports Paganism and needs to be changed? How much longer until Saint Patrick's Day is changed because somebody complained about Irish stereotypes too loudly?

Screw political correctness, I'm going to go buy a metric ton of chocolate and celebrate Easter.

 

[TwitchBlues]

I think this is a ridiculous way to do something like this, but I'm overall in favor of the dissolution of most of the established holidays. The main reason that so many no longer know what they are celebrating as to render it wanton in the first place. Easter bothers me less than some of the more storied holidays (I'm looking at you Christmas), but tradition for the sake of tradition irks me.

 

[Wintermoot]

I alway,s thought the eggy part of easter was fairly neutral.

 

[Gudrests]

I for one now celebrate
"The religiously non-denominational spring festival of chocolate egg hunting"
I don't really find it that all important to rename it and I'm not a christian so I just sort of think it as a holiday that Christians renamed themselves like Christmas (Winter Solstice), although perhaps if I were a Muslim or a Jew or a Hindu I would want for the holiday to no longer be associated with Christianity so that people of my religion could share in on the fun without betraying their god(s)/beliefs...

Political correctness is killing America. That is all.

Really? I thought it was the trillions in bone-crushing debt... Or perhaps the two party system... and then there are all of the other factors....

LOL the debt killing America? I do have to ask...which country has the ability to...ohh foreclosure on America?

also I am offended by the word Spring....Thats allergy season to my people.

 

[Hiphophippo]

What the OP is missing is that this is not true in any way. It's a false news story picked up all over the country because alarmist media sells. It's absolutely been proven false.

 

[Sakurazaki1023]

I'm not particularly religious, and I still find this mind-numbingly stupid.

Those very words, mind-numbingly stupid, is coincidentally the very same words I would use to describe all you nutters who started whining before even confirming that this was even true in the first place.

Whether it's true or not, there are plenty of examples that are just as moronic as this. If this is fake (and I'm pretty sure it is), then it makes the situation worse. If we've become this used to people take political correctness too far, then there's something wrong.

 

[DaJoW]

that sausages must be renamed "Emulsified high-fat offal tubes". People make these stories up and there are plenty of boneheads ready to believe it.

To be fair, that was part of the plot of an episode of "Yes, Minister" and it is ever so easy to confuse a comedy show with real life. Though they must have missed the end where it was merely classified as "English sausage".

 

[orangeban]

The beautiful thing is nobody will read that link, and instead you'll just get more mad ranting. Already there's been 20 posts since mine, and only one that picked up on the fact that it's all bollocks. The rest is just the usual reactionary bullshit.

Still... Bloody political correctness eh? Can't say anything these days...

Actually, this whole thing beautifully illustrates something that I've held to be true for quite some time; that being politically incorrect is the most politically correct thing in the world. If you want to go with the flow, complaining about PC behaviour is the only way to go.

It's like people listening to stuff like The Cure or Nirvana and thinking that makes them "alternative". No, screw that, I'm alternative, because I listen to Westlife and Barry Manilow!

A good way to sum up this forum is someone farting in a crowded room and 90% of the people in it going "OMG GAS RUN AWAY!" and the rest just raising eyebrows and laughing.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Just a small point...which I'm hoping some of our Biblical Scholars can update me on...but is there actually a religious significance to the chocolate eggs?

(I'm gonna discount the idea that it symbolises the rock outside the cave.)

 

[zombiestrangler]

No amount of bullshit is going to make certain holidays what they aren't.

 

[j0frenzy]

Why do we care? If I want to go out today and hold a spring sphere hunt (I would probably get actual spheres but that is besides the point) how does that in anyway affect you going out and looking for Easter Eggs? I think the name is stupid. I don't have a problem hunting for Easter Eggs when I just want to participate with my friends even in a religion that I am not a part of. But what I do has no bearing on what you do. Go out and hunt for Easter Eggs and care no more. If your biggest problem in life is what pastel-colored plastic treats people are looking for one day a year are called then you really need to get out more.
And protip: if you are going to try and Americanize a holiday and make part of American culture, you should not complain when the non-Christian Americans want to participate without invoking Jesus Christ. Easter is a Christian holiday. It is the second biggest church-going day of the year if not the biggest. You are not going to convince that it is a secular holiday just because chocolate in on sale dirt cheap at CVS. The holiday is a big deal because it is about Christ's resurrection and the secular parts people love celebrating were co-opted in to make it more appealing. (Yes, I realize that even the date was co-opted. Doesn't matter. The primary reason why Easter is a big deal is that whole God thing).
Also, political correctness is not evil and killing this country. The only people who think so are the people who don't come from a background that could be derided by words in the English language just because of who their ancestors were. They are the people who wants everyone to appease them because they are the most important and screw everyone else. We don't have to be inclusive because they are covered. I call bullshit. Trying to remove words and practices from our culture that inherently put down specific groups of people because they are a minority is a good thing. Trying to make it so that women don't have their own, generally lower sounding, jobs because they can't be actors or congressmen is a good thing. Stopping people from saying that they were gypped or jewed out because they got a bad deal is a good thing. And recognizing that there is more than one holiday that takes place in December and it is not just about your evergreens and obese men is a good thing. The only difference between the supporters of political correctness and detractors of it is not that they each feel special and want to be catered to, it is that the detractors feel like everyone should be catering just to them because they are more important.
Now I am done.

 

[orangeban]

I'm not particularly religious, and I still find this mind-numbingly stupid.

Those very words, mind-numbingly stupid, is coincidentally the very same words I would use to describe all you nutters who started whining before even confirming that this was even true in the first place.

Whether it's true or not, there are plenty of examples that are just as moronic as this. If this is fake (and I'm pretty sure it is), then it makes the situation worse. If we've become this used to people take political correctness too far, then there's something wrong.

Yes, it is obviouslly political correctness' fault that a lot of people overreacted about a lie and took the oppurtunity to rant on there favourite subject. Obviouslly.

 

[WaderiAAA]

THERE IS A WAR ON EASTER!

In all seriousness though it is ridiculous. Take the Easter out of Easter and there is no point? If they want to be respectful to everyone, why not just make up their own traditions instead?

 

[Tiger Sora]

Later today I'm going to partake in an Easter Egg hunt.
PC be damned.

Wanna go sing Christmas carols later on?

I'll join you. I don't give a crap about PC. I'm not religious either but I'm like that small gray area between religious and atheist, that don't care.

 

[alandavidson]

I'm having a hard time taking life seriously anymore. There are just too many things that bring the lulz

 

[Seagoon]

The world spirals off into a deranged, fascist land of extreme political correctness... free speech is banned... everyone is kept under surveillance...

don't lie... you would rather have an apocalypse than that.. 2012, we embrace you!

 

[GrizzlyCow]

Can I be cool too if I badmouth Political Correctness?

 

[orangeban]

The world spirals off into a deranged, fascist land of extreme political correctness... free speech is banned... everyone is kept under surveillance...

don't lie... you would rather have an apocalypse than that.. 2012, we embrace you!

I suspect this is a joke, please let it be a joke but if it isn't then I will say that I'm pretty sure political correctness is about not offending people and isn't really a government conspiracy.

 

[Jonluw]

I'm all for dropping the religious side of the easter holiday in public institutions, but can't we just still call it Easter?
And why does 'egg' need to be replaced?

Spoiler: And since it is easter, I figure I should post this:

 

[UltraDeth]

*Ahem* Shouldn't that be "Spring ovals"?