Halloween - It's Political Correctness Gone Mad I Tell Yer!

Those pesky Christians are at it again, banning fun. Bastards. From The Guardian:

A Church of England bishop campaigning to rebrand Halloween as a "triumph of good over evil" claimed victory yesterday after two supermarkets agreed to stock less sinister alternatives to the usual monster masks and devil costumes.

Sainsbury's has written to the Rt Rev David Gillett, Bishop of Bolton, saying it will now also sell glowsticks, hair braids and face paints. Its chief executive, Justin King, said he could understand the bishop's worries about the antisocial effects of Halloween products.

At a launch yesterday at Manchester Cathedral to highlight examples of cuter Halloween costumes, Bishop Gillett said he was delighted the church had persuaded supermarkets they had a responsibility to offer choice. He added: "I now hope parents will use their spending power, vote with their baskets and do what they can to show big businesses that we want Halloween to be a more positive festival for people of all ages."

Cuter Halloween costumes? Fuck off. People should be scared shitless. That's the whole point.

Will these do-gooders never learn?? When will there be an end to this political correctness that blights this country? The Christians have already had a pop at a musical that portrays Jesus in a nappy, right-wingers get all politically correct over Israel and now Christians want to make Halloween 'cute'. And do you know what the really funny thing is? They band the phrase 'politically correct' around like it is a left-wing ideology. Priceless.

Go Back To Bed, Australia

You've got to love the reactionary right. They just never take the time to think things through. For some bizarre reason, most of the righties that comment on Tim Blair's blog seem to think that nobody who has an opposing view reads his site. I'm mean, even I know that there are people out there who read this blog and disgree with everything I say (that's how this started in the first place). Are they stupid, or just plain naive? Take the recent furore over that song. Now, you can hate that song as much as you like (it's ok, I'll let you), but as soon as you attack it publicly on a blog, what do you think is going to happen? Your opponents will find out about the song and spread the word, as has happened. If they had kept quiet about it, it would still be the same small group of people who had heard it. Idiots.

On top of that, you get reactionary morons saying things like this:

And then there’s Anarchists that hate America- America, where mistrust of government was written into the constitution and everyone’s allowed to own a gun just in case they need to overthrow the State on short notice. The USA is about the closest thing to a successful Anarchist society that will ever exist.

Posted by wreckage on 2007 03 19 at 07:36 AM • permalink

Come again? The USA is about the closest thing to a successful Anarchist society that will ever exist?? Now, I'm no anarchist (cue dumb righties scratching their heads and saying 'But your title......'), but the US?? A country that spends more on the military than any other country in the world, a country that has Christofascists in the White House, a country who locks people up at will and the most successful capitalist economy in the world?? What definition of anarchy were you thinking of?? The slightly mad, strait-jacket afflicted, knuckle dragging, right-wing definition (brought to you be Conservapedia), by any chance?? And they call this:

an overdose of facts and reason.

Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 03 19 at 11:30 AM • permalink

Only in your tiny little brain my friend.

Still, the whole 'debate' (such that it is) reminds me of something good ol' Bill Hicks once said:

Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!

Although, obviously, you can substitute 'America' for 'Australia' and the message would still fit.

Rise of the Christofascists

A perfect example of the growing Christofascism, courtesy of my friend Saboma at Maryannaville:

This is the real threat to our democracy.