With the approach of Christmas, the voices that consider one of the biggest holidays of Christianity and the traditions and customs built around it over the centuries to be racist, exclusionary and misogynistic have become louder again. Former US President Donald Trump also spoke in this regard, referring to the supporters of the so-called cancel culture and emphasizing: It doesn't matter what religion people are, everyone enjoys the spirit of Christmas and the atmosphere of the holiday, despite the fact that these crazy people have appeared, who they also want to eliminate it, along with many other important things.
Those who want to abolish everything in the name of excessive political correctness are waging an increasingly aggressive campaign against the Christmas holiday every year, and the Fox News Christmas tree in downtown Manhattan fell victim to this. symbol.
The tree was put up again the next day, and several participants at the ceremony expressed their indignation about the incident. - Christmas should be the happiest time of the year. I can't imagine how someone could do that, one of them told The New York Post. In recent years, New York's iconic Christmas tree, the pine that has been erected every year since 1931 in front of the Rockefeller Center, has been criticized.
Last year, Brian Kahn, a researcher at Columbia University, proposed in an article the discontinuation of the tree stand, which dates back to almost a century of tradition. Kahn called the spectacle, visited by nearly 125 million people every year, a symbol of "American exceptionalism", which, according to him, has lost its festive character and is used exclusively for commercial purposes. .
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