Charles Krauthammer wishes everyone a Merry Christmas, after he made it clear that:
It is the more deracinated [big word there, Chuck] members of religious minorities, brought up
largely ignorant of their own traditions, whose religious identity is
so tenuous that they feel the need to be constantly on guard against
displays of other religions -- and who think the solution to their
predicament is to prevent the other guy from displaying his religion,
rather than learning a bit about their own.
Krauthammer - as is his habit - isn't particularly interested in the actual facts or arguments here - he simply assumes certain things with no evidence for it. Among other things, he is "struck":
... by the fact that you almost never find Orthodox Jews complaining about a Christmas creche in the public square.
So there it is: Christmas may be about wishing Christian friends a happy holiday, but it is also an opportunity to:
Slam the non-Orthodox!
Now, the paucity of Orthodox complaints may have something to do with the fact that most Orthodox Jews send their kids to private schools, where Christmas is barely mentioned. And that the haredi live in close-knit communities where the Christmas creche isn't an issue to begin with.
This kind of Jewish divisiveness is just so 90's, but since Krauthammer
feels free to put forward "facts" for which he has no evidence but his
own prejudice, why can't we? Nah, never mind.
But is anyone else struck by the irony that Krauthammer uses his column
to call for greater tolerance and acceptance of one religious group
(Christians) while maligning another (non-Orthodox Jews?)
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