Boycotting Wal-Mart over wages, benefits = BAD; over Christmas = GOOD?!?

[sysoprock]

From our friends over at the monkey house...

WAL-MART CAVES; BOYCOTT ENDS
Catholic League ^ | 11 November 2005 | William Donohue

Posted on 11/11/2005 5:58:29 AM PST by big'ol_freeper

Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on Wal-Mart’s decision to yield to the league’s demands:

“Yesterday, I said the Catholic League’s boycott of Wal-Mart would proceed until the company a) rendered an apology b) withdrew its insane statement regarding the origins of Christmas and c) revised its website. When I left the office last evening, none of the three demands were met. When I checked news reports this morning, and Wal-Mart’s website, all three were met.

“Wal-Mart spokesman Dan Fogleman released a statement last night saying, ‘We sincerely apologize to any person or organization that was offended by the inappropriate and inflammatory comments made by this former associate.’ Fogleman was referring to the objectionable remark offered by a Customer Service employee, Kirby, who started the entire controversy by sending the insane statement regarding the origins of Christmas to a female customer. Alas, Kirby has been fired. As for our third demand, Wal-Mart has now adjusted its website so that when a customer types ‘Christmas’ in its search engine, it no longer gets, ‘We’ve brought you to our ‘Holiday’ page based on your search.’ Now the customer is taken directly to a site named ‘Christmas.’

“Wal-Mart says it is not going to change its policy of encouraging employees to say ‘Happy Holidays’ instead of ‘Merry Christmas.’ This is dumb, but it was never part of the Catholic League’s complaint. We only trigger boycotts when we’ve been grossly offended.

“This is a sweet victory for the Catholic League, Christians in general, and people of all faiths. And it means that Wal-Mart can now enter the Christmas season without this cloud hanging over it.”


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Soooooo, let me get this straight, when Wal-Mart is abusing it's employees and shutting down local business and basically leading the corporate race to the bottom, everything is ok?

However, when Wal-Mart steps outside of the Christian Arena when discussing Christmas, it is time to rally the troops?

These people are seriously living on another planet.

[shoelace414]

1. Wal-mart hates christmas

afterall only like half their sales are for christmas.

[begin_within]

2. Boycotting Wal-Mart is always good.

[ucmike]

3. they forced walmart to be uphold the traditional xmas values

of cheap, made-in-china, consumer goods.


they are outraged at some stupid email, but have no problem with the fact that walmart (and others) have reduced the spirit of christmas to an 8 week period of rabid shopping starting at halloween and ending on christmas morning. (i haven't studied the bible in a while, can anyone quote the section where it mentions buying 1 and getting the 2nd for %50 off)

they took care of one anti-christmas tree, and ignored the whole anti-christmas forest behind it.

[LostinVA]

4. Sam 3:19 n/t

[LookManLook]

5. some real bright responses

To: CharlesWayneCT
sent the e-mail to Walmart and they stood behind it.
It was probably just some low level homosexual that responded to the Catholic League.


42 posted on 11/11/2005 6:18:01 AM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: big'ol_freeper
“Wal-Mart says it is not going to change its policy of encouraging employees to say ‘Happy Holidays’ instead of ‘Merry Christmas
Wait a minute. This sort of encouragement appears to be religious oppression - not to mention discrimination.

I will shop at Wal-Mart this Christmas. I will methodically pick out what to buy, place it in my cart. I will proceed to check out. After items are rung up, I will ask to see the management and inquire about their policy about allowing employees to wish me a Merry Christmas.

If I don't like the answer, I will walk away and let them see how much money and business they lose on at least my transactions.

Chubbie <


44 posted on 11/11/2005 6:18:39 AM PST by Chubbie
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To: big'ol_freeper
This was an overblown brouhaha, but that customer service guy was a wiseass jerk. First rule of customer service is don't mock the customers.
One more Kerry voter on the unemployment line.


4 posted on 11/11/2005 6:02:14 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: mewzilla
FYI.."Kirby" has just been hired as an organizer by MoveOn.org



37 posted on 11/11/2005 6:13:45 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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Gotta love the guy above's sig.