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The rampaging cancel culture rides again. It's totally out of control.
Roger Craik
Maple Ridge BC
On 2020-11-28 9:45 a.m., Lonnie Somer wrote:
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Hi Tweeters,
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I agree with Gary. I'm Jewish and I'm a birder. I'm also an
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anthropologist who studies various traditions around the world and
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their importance for maintaining continuity for cultures and
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subcultures. It's been called the Christmas Bird Count for more than
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100 years. It was never used in a discriminatory fashion nor was it
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intended to be exclusive, as far as I'm aware. I'll keep calling it
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the CBC. Now, I'm off to go pishing on Schmuck Rd. in Sequim.....
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Good birding,
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Lonnie Somer
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Seattle
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On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 8:27 AM Ken Trease <krtrease at gmail.com
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<mailto:krtrease at gmail.com>> wrote:
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👍 well said Gary
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Sent from my iPhone
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On Nov 28, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Gary Bletsch <garybletsch at yahoo.com
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<mailto:garybletsch at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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Dear Tweeters,
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May the name "Christmas Count" remain. It's called a Christmas
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count; there's nothing wrong with calling it such.
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When I was a kid birder in New York, most of the older birders
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who mentored me on my first CBC's were Jewish. None of them had
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any beefs (or porks!) with the name.
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It would be hard to find anyone on this planet who loved
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Christmas more than I did as a kid. I was the last one on the
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block to stop believing in Santa Claus. By the time I was sixteen
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or so, however, the excesses of the season began to inflict their
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existential nausea upon my spirit. Those excesses have multiplied
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to a staggering degree since then. My revulsion for this annual
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cacophonous glut can hardly be expressed.
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Last December, I made my escape to South America, where I
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detected nary a hint of yuletide mania until about the 20th of
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December. Glorious! I was all ready to make it an annual habit
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when the pandemic came along.
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Even so, the Christmas Bird Count is one of the few things that I
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do like about December-- other than the beginning of lengthening
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hours of daylight in our hemisphere.
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My objection to the suggested name change, then, is not because I
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want to put the "Christ back in Christmas," or because I want to
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fight a rearguard action against what some call "the war on
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Christmas."
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Far, far from it! I just don't like this penchant for taking a
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belt sander to anything rough or nettlesome in a word or name. I
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characterize it as a misguided attempt to protect tender
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feelings, bordering on the self-righteous. Such rechristenings
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always remind me of /Brave New World,/ where all of the steeple
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crosses had their tops sawn off, turning them into capital T's,
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in honor of Henry Ford's Model T automobile. How Orwellian!
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Yours truly,
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Gary Bletsch
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