Holidays erased and replaced

 Just read an article by Jason Rantz in mynorthwest.com

The King County Office of Equity and Social Justice (OESJ) spent taxpayer dollars on a calendar that erases the names of America’s traditional holidays, which included religious holidays. Actually, it erases most holidays, replacing them with heritage celebration months to better reflect the office’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, so long as it doesn’t represent the traditional American celebrations, or those of Christians or Jews.

Seattle, Wa is part of King County, which has numerous other cities in it as well.  If you’ve followed the news in the past 8 months you know that Seattle has its share of Anarchists protesting and setting things on fire.  In fact, we had a 6 block part of downtown Seattle taken over by Antifa and BLM and the mayor and city council did zero to discourage this.  Businesses lost, rapes, murder….nothing done.  The mayor described all of this as a “summer of love”.  Still continuing by the way.

But King County did come out with a 2021 calendar, somewhat similar to one published in 2019…..at taxpayer expense….that eliminated Mother’s Day (Because it showed gender intolerance), Father’s Day (Because it showed gender intolerance), Independence Day (Because it supports a country that is embedded in racism), Memorial Day (Because it supports those who participated in nation building), Labor Day (Token day of worker oppression), Easter (Because it shows a religion of intolerance, hate, racism, discrimination), Thanksgiving (Because it celebrates how white's destroyed Native Americans), Christmas (Same as Easter).

The good news is that these holidays are represented by a ‘circle’ on the date, so that the day stands out, but no annotation of why the ‘circle’ is there.

However, there were ‘holidays’ inserted with notable descriptions. Black History Holiday, Asian Love Holiday, Indian/Native Holiday, BIPOC Support Holiday, Gay/Lesbian Month, Transgender Awareness Month.  There is not one month that doesn’t have some social justice DAY or MONTH celebrated for these “causes.”  

When asked how “inclusion” means removing all of the holiday labels they don’t agree with or oppose, (which by the way is exclusion), the people asking were accused of being hostile, racist and white supremacists, yes even black callers. Thanksgiving is omitted from the calendar, replaced with Native American Heritage Month. Christmas isn’t mentioned on the calendar, either. Instead, the calendar celebrates International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10.

Hanukkah most definitely doesn’t get a mention. As far as Jews go, they stopped being progressive around the start of the anti-Semitic Boycott-Divest-Sanction movement. Of course, no mention of Jewish American Heritage Month in May.  No worries, in April, the calendar celebrates Arab American Heritage Month.

If I receive a 2021 calendar from OESJ, I better have another calendar close at hand.