- C.S. Lewis, God In The Dock
This is a picture of a Christmas wallhanging I sewed a couple of months ago: You may notice that it displays the title from the Christmas/winter song Baby It's Cold Outside which has yet again come under attack from the usual po-faced suspects: the extreme umbrage brigade. Recently a radio station in Cleveland removed the song from its playlist after a complaint from ONE listener, calling the lyrics "problematic". The station then ran a poll asking listeners their opinion: 94% of the responders wanted the song to be played on the air. Despite this, the song remains banned because in the wimpy world of sycophantic appeasement of the perpetually outraged, the squalling of a tiny minority whose pushiness is only exceeded by their ability to raise a stink counts for more than the wishes of the vast majority of normal people. Don't like a song? Don't listen to it. I personally have an aversion to John Lennon's Happy Xmas (War Is Over), as well as anything by the Chipmunks but I'd never go so far as to demand that they stop being played, because I'm not an hysterical autocrat. We'd all be a lot better off if the impertinent demands of a few whingeing twerps who won't mind their own business were treated with the scorn they deserve. "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, God In The Dock
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