Thousands gather for Portland’s woke ‘tree’ lighting ceremony

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00:00The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, this is not. The city of Portland, Oregon is getting

00:06dragged online after it refused to use the word Christmas while lighting the city's,

00:12well, lighting the city's Christmas tree. Thousands gathered in Pioneer Courthouse Square

00:17for the 41st annual lighting, but city leaders and other speakers at the ceremony went out of

00:23their way to avoid using the word Christmas, instead referring to it simply as the tree.

00:28Not even a generic holiday tree, nope, just the tree, like when the Dixie Chicks became

00:34the chicks. The event began with a woman from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs thanking

00:40everyone for attending on Native American Heritage Day. The next speaker, draped in a Palestinian flag,

00:46led free Palestine chants and said, quote, this is the perfect time to bring this up.

00:51There are a lot of genocides going on. Is this the perfect time? Now, while the word Christmas was

01:00avoided at all costs, the city managed to wedge in some holiday spirit. Santa Claus attended the

01:06festivities, but he probably just went by Nick that day. And the crowd was led in a sing-along of songs

01:13like Angels We Have Heard on High and Deck the Halls. I guess they just gave up on the non-denominational

01:18cheer by that point.