Minority Wins

Throughout history majority groups have won arguments far more times than a minority. Strength in numbers as they often say, even our judicial system is scared of the power a majority holds that a jury in most western countries require a complete same vote from all involved. Yet with political correctness swinging into our lives, we are seeing a change more powerful than any climate change discussion. Its the power shifting from the majority to the minority.

Policies used to exist to keep the overwhelming majority happy and it worked fine, until certain minority groups came into play. I'm talking about Christmas time at your local shopping centre, where you will no longer see the words "Happy Christmas" because this may offend the small group who do not celebrate Christmas. No longer do children sing carols at their school come end of year, because they are generally all heavily catholic based, which means we may once again offend small groups.

But you know what I think we should do, celebrate what the majority does and to the groups who are not happy, do you feel good about yourself, wrecking it for the rest of us? Do children really see the underlying catholic tones in a simple carol? Or do catholics get offended when we go to a Caulfield South shopping centre around Hanukkah and see posters everywhere celebrating their spiritual time? The answers to the above questions are no. We get on with our lives and seem to embrace the cultural differences of our fellow Australians. But it seems there are some out there who do not feel Australian enough to allow freedom of choice and freedom of celebration.

I want to celebrate Christmas, its a wonderful time to catch up with family and eat food and be merry. But its overshadowed by the minority turning what was formally known as Christmas into more like "25th December Celebration Day", because with all its identity stripped from it by political madness, thats what it should probably be called.

Is it fair that we change our ways of life to suit new comers and yet they dont change to suit ours. We abolish public holiday celebration in order to save them the offence, and yet they dont even think its wrong. When a Muslim girl wears a Hijab to school, we cant ban her from that, because its her religous choice. Even though it may offend her fellow classmates. They cant wear hats to school, because some religion didnt tell them they could. The more we let religion reign supreme in our decisions, expecially around children, the more we weaken ourselves to the the minority.

I want my Christmas posters hanging high in shopping centres and around councils with the traditional words across them, just give us that for Christs Sake.