Satire: Bari Weiss's: A Charlie Brown Christmas by Jennie Egerdie

[AStern]

Sixty years ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut on CBS. Today, as part of CBS’s new initiative to modernize content, CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss updates this Christmas classic.

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Charlie Brown and Linus lean on a brick wall. Snowflakes fall around them.

CHARLIE BROWN: I think there must be something wrong with me. I just don’t understand Christmas, I guess. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel.

LINUS: Charlie Brown, you are the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem. Maybe Lucy is right. Maybe it is because of woke.

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Charlie Brown sits in front of Lucy’s psychiatric booth.

CHARLIE BROWN: I feel depressed. I know I should be happy, but I’m not.

LUCY: It’s because of mainstream media cowardice. In an age of lies, telling the truth is a huge risk. I think we’d better pinpoint your fears. Are you afraid of being silenced because of your “privilege”? How ’bout for the crime of listening to a diversity of opinions? Are you afraid of getting canceled for freethinking? Or for fighting a culture war between people who think the Confederate flag is a beautiful symbol of resistance, and those who hate America?

CHARLIE BROWN: There’s a culture war?

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bari-weisss-a-charlie-brown-christmas

[erronis]

1. I do like McSweeneys - a bit droll - to counteract the fake syrup of xmas-time.