Look Out Pagans!
Either the Pagans are next on the list of religions under attack, or some folks really need to brush up on their holiday icons.
The Easter Bunny is a vanishing breed.
Not that there’s a shortage of 6-foot white rabbits carrying baskets of colored eggs. It’s just that Mr. Shopping Mall Bunny is becoming more politically correct.
And what’s politically incorrect about the Easter Bunny? Well, it’s tough to tell from the article, but maybe a couple more quotes might help shed a bit of light on the subject.
Saturday, Baxter the Bunny is available for photos at the Mall at Wellington Green. At Town Center in Boca Raton, Peter Rabbit will hand out goodies and pose for pictures.
“Because we’re such a multicultural community, it’s good just to remain neutral,” mall General Manager Sam Hosen said.
It’s easier, I suppose, to just throw up a giant anonymously-named bunny to hand out candy and eggs than to actually attempt to explain why the bunny is doing such a thing. Not that the mall folks can come up with an explanation.
“I suppose the name Easter Bunny is fairly unusual. We have Easter eggs too,” Boynton Beach Mall Manager Andrea Horne said. “I know it’s probably not the popular thing to call it.”
The rabbit’s name seems to have little effect on shopping habits. “I’m not really sure how religious the bunny is,” The Gardens’ Roberts said.
There’s a lot of confusion here – the kind of knee-jerk political correctness that, to my way of thinking comes from enormous heaps of ignorance than it does from any noble impulse to protect some suppressed class of people.
After all, when was the last time you met an Angle or a Saxon who worshipped the old Roman goddess of fertility?
No, it’s a lot easier to rename the bunny after a felonious little rabbit who broke into Farmer MacGregor’s vegetable patch, ate himself sick, and lost a perfectly good jacket and pair of shoes than it is to attempt to convey a message about the Easter Holiday (from either the Pagan or Christian perspective – pick one).
Better just to throw an inexplicable anonybunny at the kids and bury them under mounds of treats than it is to attempt to give them a taste of their nation’s culture or heritage.
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