I'm with O'Reilly

Bill O'Reilly told a Jewish voter who's offended by Christmas to get over it. Of course, he said it in a blunt way, but then Michael Medved, who is an Orthodox Jew, probably would have as well. O'Reilly accused the caller of insulting the majority. Prompting this response from a commenter at Hit And Run:

Jews getting upset over the Christian roots of Christmas reminds me of Christians getting upset over the pagan roots of Halloween. It misses the point. Just treat Christmas like a secular holiday -- after all, popular culture's been doing that for half a century.

Good point. What's the point of griping that the rest of the world doesn't revolve around you? This is just the self-pitying, whining kind of silliness that makes political correctness both disgusting and pointless. We can thank our courts for buying into the stigmatization nonsense that has given every minority a sense of narcissism and entitlement that society can't and shouldn't deliver.

Yes, people should be sensitive, but out of kindness and tolerance, not because they're afraid of being called bigots or threatened with lawsuits. You can't legislate tolerance. Trying to do so ends up legislating intolerance.