On Dec 9, 2007 11:50 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It isn't just the seasonal songs, but also the long stale traditional<br>stories that invite ridicule. For instance, consider the Dickens classic<br>that I need not even name. Marley is sent to warn Scrooge of his evil ways.
<br></blockquote></div><br>I'd like to know who still thinks it's a good idea to teach children that they need to be like everyone else or they're not allowed to play reindeer games. In our modern world if the elf applied to dental school and was discriminated by race he'd be entitled to the kind of settlement money that precludes ever needing to work again. I can't even begin to imagine the kind of protests on behalf of the "abominable snow beast" that has his teeth ripped out and forced into a life of dependent servitude inside the toy factory.
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