Roosevelt Field Mall's 'politically correct' Christmas display to be removed

[Renew Deal]

Mall's 'politically correct' Christmas display is so bland that it offends shoppers and has to be taken down

Roosevelt Field Mall replaced their traditional display with a winter 'glacier'
Shoppers say they were told new decor was so as 'not to offend anyone'
But bland design sparked outrage and shoppers threatened a boycott
Now the mall has conceded and torn down all traces of the plastic glacier







A Long Island mall has been forced to tear down its 'politically correct' Christmas display to replace it with more traditional decorations after shoppers threatened a boycott.

Scores of customers complained after Roosevelt Field Mall, in New York, ditched its annual holiday village in favor of a winter-themed 'glacier' instead.

Many mocked the futuristic display as something that would look more at home on the set of Star Trek than as Santa Claus' grotto.
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Now DailyMail.com have learned that they mall have bowed to pressure and removed the glacier display entirely.

The mall have removed all traces of the bizarre white plastic design and gone back to basics with a red throne, Christmas trees and sled.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3309521/Mall-s-politically-correct-Christmas-display-bland-offends-shoppers-taken-down.html

[Takket]

1. that display was pretty pathetic. Glad they changed it back.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Politically correct? That display is a lobotomized version of Winter.

[Renew Deal]

5. lol

[ryan_cats]

3. I

I live to see things like this happen.

The law of unintended consequences strikes again!

[NightWatcher]

4. It looks like Santa went to the Apple Store

Or used that hydro massage bed they have at the mall

[shenmue]

6. Used to go there all the time, when I was growing up in NY

Great place to get pistachios.

[merrily]

7. The first display was ugly, but the war on Christmas sneaks up on me every year.

[Lex]

8. Looks like laziness to me.

"Just hang some icicles and tell everyone that people were offended by the other stuff."

[Facility Inspector]

9. Christmas Cult of Death

and Santa (Satan?) is the executioner.

[HassleCat]

10. A case of PC? Or artistic sensibilities?

How is ditching the old stuff a concession to political correctness? The plastic glacier is just ugly.

[gollygee]

11. It was probably more a desire to be cool and high tech than laziness

but it's ugly regardless.

[FLPanhandle]

12. I'm a pretty hardcore atheist, but no one is offended by stores putting up Christmas displays

Except when they do it too early.