A tasty morsel from “The Week” in the new June 6, 2005 edition, of NR:

“Diversity,” “sensitivity,” “inclusion” . . . The warm, viscous vocabulary of the multicultural project washes over us day by day, enervating and stupefying us until at last we yield, to watch passively as yet another familiar and cherished aspect of our culture is dismantled and hauled away to the dump. Most of us yield, anyway. Not so the citizens of La Jolla, Calif. In response to demands that the word “Christmas” be dropped from the name of their traditional annual parade to make the event more “inclusive,” the La Jolla town council voted to keep the name just as it is. It will not become a Holiday Parade, a Winter Solstice Parade, or, as in the old Soviet Union, a Grandpa Frost Parade. It will remain a Christmas Parade. Thanks to the good people of La Jolla for thus standing athwart history; and God bless them, every one.

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