1.
Who We Are?
2. Why the Web Site?
3. How Do Companies and Organizations Make the
Grinch List?
4. What is Our View on the "Holidays?"
5. What To Do with the
Grinch List?
6. Do Companies Market
Differently in Stores vs. Online and Catalogs?
7. What To Do with the
Contact Information Listed for Various Companies and
Organizations?
8. Can You Recommend an Organization to the Grinch List?
9. What We Do with Your Offer
to Help?
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Who We Are? |
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We are ordinary people who
have decided to create this site with our own resources.
We are not profiting from this site and have spent much of our
own time putting it together. We both have full time
jobs - this is our effort to encourage you to speak out if you
feel as we do. We are unable to add our profiles since we have
received a couple of threatening e-mails out of the hundreds of
positive and gracious responses from the many fine people who
have take the time to do so.
We are probably like most of you who are frustrated
with an ongoing assault of our heritage in the public space. The
selective intolerance by the same companies, organizations and
groups that profess their allegiance to multiculturalism and
the First Amendment is quite disturbing and duplicitous - hence
the Grinch List.
However, we
respect the right of all Americans to celebrate what is
important to them throughout the year – we just don’t want
others to determine that for us because of their political
motivations – a disturbing trend.
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Why
the Web Site? |
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The concept of
the Grinch List began in 2002 when we were out shopping for
Christmas. We noticed the trend to remove Christmas from
many of the traditional Christmas merchandise and voiced our
concerns to the stores. Many of the employees agreed and
recommended that we contact the corporate offices. The
responses we received prompted the idea to organize a list
that we can manage online.
We hope that
this site informs and encourages you to take action by letting
others know how you feel about this issue and stand up to
those who think your culture is not important. We also hope to
elevate this issue to a level where intolerance and censorship
is challenged - it's up to you!
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How Do Companies and Organizations Make the Grinch List? |
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The Grinch list
is primary the result of our own experiences and input from
you since 2003. Though the process is not scientific,
the minimum requirement is that there is an obvious intent to
censor references to Christmas via merchandising, official
policies, and/or advertising. We realize that there are
differences between the companies and organizations that are
listed in terms of making the list - whenever possible we try
to indicate the differences.
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What is Our View on the
"Holidays?" |
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We are not
opposed to wishing people “happy holidays” since there are many
who don’t celebrate Christmas. However, we stand against those
organizations and companies that remove references to Christmas
because of political correctness while at the same time
recognizing and promoting non-Christian holidays and cultural
events. We have been told many times by companies that engage in
multiculturalism that they remove references to Christmas because they
feel it might offend those who don’t celebrate Christmas. This
viewpoint should never be tolerated in a country that embraces our
religious freedom and is at the forefront of the purposes behind
this site. Moreover, we respect the rights of others to celebrate
this time of the year in the way that they see fit – it’s
America.
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What To Do with the
Grinch List? |
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Since the Grinch list is
primary the result of our own experiences, we encourage you to
question the practices and policies affecting the companies and
organizations within your own State, and voice your concerns if
you feel the issues central to the site are evident.
We recognize it is
possible for a national chain to merchandise differently for a
particular region, so it is conceivable that some of the
companies listed may not apply to your area. So we encourage you
to check the stores where you shop.
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Do Companies Market Differently in Stores vs. Online and
Catalogs? |
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Yes.
Some of the
companies listed on the Grinch list may censor Christmas in
their retail stores while their online sites and catalogs may
not, as an example. This is because many of these
companies are operated under different divisions that are
dedicated to each of these venues. Where possible, we try
to make the distinction between these three areas on our list.
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What To Do with the Contact Information Listed for Various
Companies and Organizations? |
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When possible,
we've provided contact information. This is to assist
you to ask questions and voice your opinions about practices
that you may disagree with.
We've
decided not to post a form letter as many of you suggested
because we want your opinion truly is from you. The
effect is less if companies view your comment as part of an
organized campaign and a form letter.
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Can You Recommend an Organization to the Grinch List? |
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Yes, however
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We have received hundreds of suggestions to the list and can
only consider those that we can verify. Since our time
and resources are stretched, we are unable to verify all of
your suggestions at this point. We recommend that you
voice your concerns to the appropriate parties to affect
change in your particular State. We've also received
many recommendations for local and/or regional companies.
We are unable to verify many of those recommendations so we
will not be able to add them to the list. You are also
encourage to post your nomination to our
guest book.
We will do our best to modify the list.
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9. |
What We Do with Your Offer to Help? |
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We've received
many gracious offers of help us with the site and even
financial offer! We appreciate your offers but we could
not find time or ways to use your help yet. We are
committed to start early next year (2005) so that we may
contact you if your offer still good.
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