Godless Rockhead and the "Holiday tree"

[AzJames73]

MineralMan (100,581 posts)                      https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218260526

Why This Atheist Has a Holiday Tree
Everyone seems to be celebrating something during Winter. Since I love celebrations and parties, I put up the Holiday Tree yesterday and decorated it with ornaments related to all December events celebrated by those I know well and even those I don't know. It's an ecumenical, multicultural Holiday Tree. Whatever holiday you celebrate, it stands as a symbol of your holiday:

Diwali
Hanukkah
Christmas
Winter Solstice (my personal favorite - it's also our wedding anniversary)
Kwanzaa
Yule or Jul
New Year
Chinese New Year

Happy Holidays to Everyone! We can all celebrate by my tree!

MERRY CHRISTMAS Rockhead !!

[Old n Grumpy]

Wow, what a guy, you are a hero at the dump and a zero everywhere else!

[thundley4]

Kwanzaa, a made up holiday created by a criminal.

[SVPete]

I realize facts don't matter on DU, but does MM realize that Chinese New Year is over 2 1/2 months away? And that 2017 Diwali was over 2 months ago?

Maybe if MM's "diversity" were in his life rather than his fantasies he would have had an idea how stupidly anachronistic that post was.

[Old n Grumpy]

I realize facts don't matter on DU, but does MM realize that Chinese New Year is over 2 1/2 months away? And that 2017 Diwali was over 2 months ago?

Maybe if MM's "diversity" were in his life rather than his fantasies he would have had an idea how stupidly anachronistic that post was.

Reality and truth don't matter to the dumpers, it just needs to sound good to fit their narrative.

[67 Rover]

MineralMan (100,581 posts)                      https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218260526

Why This Atheist Has a Holiday Tree
Everyone seems to be celebrating something during Winter. Since I love celebrations and parties, I put up the Holiday Tree yesterday and decorated it with ornaments related to all December events celebrated by those I know well and even those I don't know. It's an ecumenical, multicultural Holiday Tree. Whatever holiday you celebrate, it stands as a symbol of your holiday:

Diwali
Hanukkah
Christmas
Winter Solstice (my personal favorite - it's also our wedding anniversary)
Kwanzaa
Yule or Jul
New Year
Chinese New Year

Happy Holidays to Everyone! We can all celebrate by my tree!

If you are going to include "Kwanzaa" then you must include Festivus dip$hit. 

[franksolich]

Wow, what a guy, you are a hero at the dump and a zero everywhere else!

 

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

If you are going to include "Kwanzaa" then you must include Festivus dip$hit. 

Yeah.
He includes Kwanzaa, a holiday invented by a racist psychopath who did time in prison for kidnapping and torturing two of his own followers (I've heard some of the things he and his buddies did to them included beating them with electrical cords and toasters, crushing their toes in vices, and sticking hot soldering irons in their mouths), yet doesn't include Festivus, a holiday specifically designed "For the rest of us"?
Bigoted, hypocritical moron.

[67 Rover]

Yeah.
He includes Kwanzaa, a holiday invented by a racist psychopath who did time in prison for kidnapping and torturing two of his own followers (I've heard some of the things he and his buddies did to them included beating them with electrical cords and toasters, crushing their toes in vices, and sticking hot soldering irons in their mouths), yet doesn't include Festivus, a holiday specifically designed "For the rest of us"?
Bigoted, hypocritical moron.

Time to air the grievances!!!! 

[AzJames73]

Yeah.
He includes Kwanzaa, a holiday invented by a racist psychopath who did time in prison for kidnapping and torturing two of his own followers (I've heard some of the things he and his buddies did to them included beating them with electrical cords and toasters, crushing their toes in vices, and sticking hot soldering irons in their mouths), yet doesn't include Festivus, a holiday specifically designed "For the rest of us"?
Bigoted, hypocritical moron.

Yep. He is a POS:

Criminal convictions and imprisonment

In 1971, Karenga was sentenced to one to ten years in prison on counts of felonious assault and false imprisonment.[16] One of the victims gave testimony of how Karenga and other men tortured her and another woman. The woman described having been stripped and beaten with an electrical cord. Karenga's estranged wife, Brenda Lorraine Karenga, testified that she sat on the other woman’s stomach while another man forced water into her mouth through a hose.

A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of the women:

    "Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said. They also were hit on the heads with toasters."[17]

Jones and Brenda Karenga testified that Karenga believed the women were conspiring to poison him, which Davis has attributed to a combination of ongoing police pressure and his own drug abuse.[5][18]

Karenga denied any involvement in the torture, and argued that the prosecution was political in nature.[5][19] He was imprisoned at the California Men's Colony, where he studied and wrote on feminism, Pan-Africanism and other subjects. The US organization fell into disarray during his absence and was disbanded in 1974. After he petitioned several black state officials to support his parole on fair sentencing grounds, it was granted in 1975.[20]

Karenga has declined to discuss the convictions with reporters and does not mention them in biographical materials.[18] During a 2007 appearance at Wabash College he again denied the charges and described himself as a former political prisoner.