- Update: Mark Steyn reports that Amazon has amended its post: The "Twelve Days Of Holiday" promotion has now been amended to "The Twelve Days Of [click here for offensive C-word]".
- Roger Kimball recounts some recent examples. This is a phenomena that occurs, and reoccurs, throughout our culture every day. Hint: It's not healthy. (HT: the Corner)
One small excerpt from his much larger article:
My second example is a seasonal one. In a recent column, Mark Steyn pointed out that the mighty Amazon.com is advertising a special music sale called “The Twelve Days Of Holiday“. (Hat tip for this to Instapundit.) This is what happens when you bend over backwards to mollify multicultural sensitivities. The linguistic absurdity (”On the first day of holiday, my true love gave to me . . .”) is not fortuitous: it is the presenting symptom of that moral illness that underlies the whole enterprise. In a later column, Mark reports that a reader who complained to Amazon about the excision of the word “Christmas” received this canned response from Amazon:
Please accept our sincere apologies if you were offended by the use of the word “Christmas” on our website. Our intention in referring to Christmas is to give specific ordering guidance for a specific holiday, not to exclude other faiths.
Other examples he cites may be more apropos the title I gave this post. [Read more]