Evil in Wheelchairs

I really, really don't care for inserting myself into the whole woke business. It's simply a morass which can only muddy everyone. Then something happens which makes me ask, who would even, ever think that? 

Doctor Who is a long running and generally entertaining British sci-fi franchise. The most recent version reintroduced a character called Davros. Davros has been around since 1975 and is evil. Very, disgustingly, despicably evil. He has also always been wheelchair bound.

They changed that. The new Davros can walk because, in the words of Russell Davies, the BBC executive currently in charge of Doctor Who, "We didn't like the imagery of the bad guy being in a wheelchair." 

He's on to something, you know. When I first saw Davros way back when my initial thought was, "Huh. Dave down the street must be evil because he's in a wheelchair..."

Of course that wasn't my first thought. I can't imagine that it was anybody's first thought. Nor their second, third, or eighty ninth. How twisted could a mind be to even draw that conclusion, that outrageous thought, from such a benign fact?

Do they, the woke crowd, actually mean this stuff? Are they that stupid, or do they in fact have an agenda? Sometimes I wonder.

Honestly Bronner's?

I've complained about politics all week. I'm going to complain about something else today.

Recently while on the end of a sales trip, the work done and no particular reason to rush home, I stopped by Bronner's, a huge Christmas store in Frankenmuth, Michigan. I was feeling nostalgic and wanted to get my Christmas on, because I really do like Christmas and the feel of Christmas. I simply want it to stay in its lane.

Bronner's advertises widely that we need to keep Christ in Christmas, a sentiment which I agree with wholeheartedly. The store does not hide its Christian roots. Still, I was disappointed to see them selling 'Holiday Countdown Calendars', whatever they are, alongside traditional Advent calendars. Advent calendars are popular for counting down the 25 days till Christmas once December rules the year.

Really, Bronner's? Keep Christ in Christmas but offer generic Holiday Countdown memorabilia? Have you sold out that much to secular consumerism? Have you actually bought into the don't offend anyone mantra? How do you justify that? "Nothing says keep CHRIST in CHRISTmas like our handy dandy Holiday Countdown Calendar!"

I'm disappointed. I truly am.