Comments | craftygeekette: Babies R Us + Jebus =??? WTF

craftygeekette

Babies R Us + Jebus =??? WTF

Feb 10, 2008 11:46

So I went into Babies R Us friday night to pick up a roll of the border we are using in the baby room. Yep we are doing a cheesy "ABC" border. I was quite annoyed however to find that the border only went to E. I'm going to be teaching my son the alphabet, and he's only going to know the first five letters. That's ok....it was cute ( Read more... )

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nekhochan February 10 2008, 23:51:50 UTC

Write a letter? Is it really THAT offensive?

craftygeekette February 11 2008, 02:08:27 UTC

I think it is offensive actually.
I wouldn't write a letter saying "oh you guys hate non-christians" but I would send a letter saying "Hey, why do you need to play those songs when there are many other neutral choices out there?"

I'm not going to quit shopping there because of it, and I wouldn't write a rude letter. I would just a letter saying "Hey this is offensive, because not everyone shopping here is christian, so maybe you should play more general music."

...and when I say letter, I mean email. I wouldn't go much further than that.

nekhochan February 11 2008, 02:52:01 UTC

I know it would be an email...do anyone but little old ladies sit down and write actual letters to companies anymore? LOL My grandma used to do that...she was..quite, um, spirited. LOL.

I guess I am curious that if it would have been any other religion besides christian, would it have been offensive? Pagan? Muslim? Jewish?

And this comment:
"I wonder if the Babies R Us tape nazi is a dedicated, conservative Christian trying to get at "us" one song at a time."

Now THAT is offensive. I'm still waiting for that open-minded left to blow me away with their tolerance.

gunthar February 11 2008, 06:08:51 UTC

Maybe you should write an email to the manager of this journal and threaten to not buy anything here any more if she doesn't change her tune.

Geeze, Craftygeekette, why do you need to hold these personal opinions when there are many open-minded conservative choices out there?

HA! I said "open-minded conservative." I am a funny cheese.

nekhochan February 11 2008, 12:52:55 UTC

Dude, I never said she isn't entitled to her opinions. Erica and I have been friends for over 10 years now, and have disagreed enough times to end most friendships, but have stayed friends somehow. I think its because neither of us expects the other to change, but we do enjoy challenging one anothers opinions in a format such as this. When you lay your thoughts and such out in a journal, I think that a little friendly debate is okay. I keep it civil, I don't call names, I don't make it personal.

nekhochan February 11 2008, 13:46:18 UTC

I try to only call political candidates that I don't like names. Huckabee can take it.

I completely respect Holly's views, and she catches me on a lot of my heated statements and challenges me. I went to bed last night thinking about her. I had something brilliant to say and now I can't remember it. *sniffle*

If I really didn't want to hear what Holly had to say, I'd filter her, but I care so I don't.

nekhochan February 11 2008, 13:47:34 UTC

Apparently I'm not signed in at work but this was Erica. :)

craftygeekette February 11 2008, 13:43:05 UTC

I never said I was open minded to people who shove their religious beliefs on others. The thing is that although it is seemingly non-offensive, if they were playing a song about how god doesn't exist or how evolution is great, you know they would get TONS of letters. Why is one belief ok and the other is not? Yes, a song from any religion in a baby store in February would be just as offensive. Although I can admit, I might not easily recognize it as well because I'm very aware of the Christian religion and in this country, that is the main religion who seeks to oppress others.

I would NOT take offense if they did a holiday tape in December and had the Dradel song (one of my favorites btw) along with christmas songs, along with muslim songs (although I don't know any admittedly).

These songs were over and over again Christian aimed songs. Maybe I just got the bad end of the tape, but it's what I heard.

nekhochan February 12 2008, 02:33:44 UTC

BTW, thanks for defending me there. I appreciate that with all my heart. AND it shows a certain level of maturity to admit to a couple of those things. :) Good for you!(I certainly am not always so humble...)

Anyhoo, I am shocked that ANY corp would be ballsy enough to play anything religious at all. While I'm not offended, I am suprised by it.

And I guess I find religions like radical islam to be more oppresive than christianity by far. Yeah, the crusades were a loooong time ago, and radical jihadists are STILL blowing themselves and other innocent people up daily. And thats RADICAL islam, not all of it. And I think any religion in any form of a radical type is bad, including radicals in christianity. But even they don't hold a candle to the radical islamists.

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