Minnesota resident's Christmas light display shamed for 'harmful impact' to community in anonymous letter

[Dashinka 25,869]

People will find anything to be offended by.  Here is an idea...You be You.

 

 

Minnesota resident's Christmas light display shamed for 'harmful impact' to community in anonymous letter

 

"The idea of twinkling, colorful lights are a reminder of divisions that continue to run through our society, a reminder of systemic biases against our neighbors who don't celebrate Christmas or who can't afford to put up lights of their own," the letter, shared by Crime Watch Minneapolis, reads. "We must do work of educating ourselves about the harmful impact an outward facing display like yours can have."

 

The letter has received pushback on social media, with former Baltimore Ravens quarterback Derek Anderson replying "Saw this coming a long time ago. “If I can’t have it nobody can” or “ if they have it we all deserve it” that’s not life."

 

Another user pointed out the irony that the letter writer is "doing exactly what they accuse the homeowner of doing- not being accepting of others."

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-residents-christmas-light-display-shamed-for-harmful-impact

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

Despite normally only doing a tree and sometimes small front/back yard displays, best way to get me to light up my house like Times Square is to do what they're doing. The "[insert holiday or social norm] is canceled" movement should be shown up with the appropriate, contemptuous two words I'm thinking. 

[Dashinka 25,869]

We do not do a lot ourselves either, but I did add a few more lights.  We and our next door neighbor did a bit of a theme.

[yuna628 9,873]

Honestly this sort of letter makes it rounds on a variety of subjects almost every year. It's usually either just some neighbor that's annoyed by the traffic or the visuals or it's a faked letter entirely by a crazy person. We had one guy every year with a massive production/radio station thing, and the cranky neighbors were having none of it. Didn't matter how much money the guy raised for cancer charities and veterans programs either. He ended up selling all his stuff and the display is no more.

 

This year everyone is into displays, which is pretty nice. They went all in just like they did for the Halloween decorations.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,425]

I only have Redneck neighbors.  Rednecks dont usually try to mind somebody else's business 

[Steeleballz 7,550]

1 hour ago, yuna628 said:

Honestly this sort of letter makes it rounds on a variety of subjects almost every year. It's usually either just some neighbor that's annoyed by the traffic or the visuals or it's a faked letter entirely by a crazy person. We had one guy every year with a massive production/radio station thing, and the cranky neighbors were having none of it. Didn't matter how much money the guy raised for cancer charities and veterans programs either. He ended up selling all his stuff and the display is no more.

 

This year everyone is into displays, which is pretty nice. They went all in just like they did for the Halloween decorations.

 

  Everyone is stuck at home. so I expected to see a lot of decoration this year, and there have really been some amazing displays. I suspect some of my neighbors will be setting up GoFundMe accounts when they get their electric bills.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,425]

3 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  Everyone is stuck at home. so I expected to see a lot of decoration this year, and there have really been some amazing displays. I suspect some of my neighbors will be setting up GoFundMe accounts when they get their electric bills.

Clark Griswold will always be the man 

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

3 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Clark Griswold will always be the man 

Bobby, we checked all the lights didn't we?

[Dashinka 25,869]

28 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

Bobby, we checked all the lights didn't we?

I thought it was Rusty?

[Dashinka 25,869]

 

 

 

[Prizm123 1,086]

they were just upset because it wasnt as awesome as this