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So fricken sick of the "Happy Holidays" debate. Wasn't it bad enough last year?

Let's face it, the "Christmas Season" takes up roughly a third of the year, if not more. It starts before Halloween and goes all the way up through New Years.

In the meantime you've got Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Chirstmas, Solstice/Yule and about fify bajillion other holidays that I'm missing.

If you're so worried about the "Reason for the season", why in the effing h-e-double-hockey-sticks are you out getting into fist fights over a PS3 or whatever gadget of obscenely inflated cost your kid wants?

Believe it or not, "Happy Holidays" and "Seasons Greetings" were meant to include you too.

And now, I bid you Merry Solstichristmakwanzakkuh.

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[seaya.livejournal.com]

It's like this.

I walked into the pre-K class the other day and saw all the Christmas decorations. The kids were doing C for cookies. So I thought they were also doing C for Christmas. I asked that and the teacher said "No, we can't say Christmas, because *some* people would get *offended*." Well, that was extremely offensive to me, especially her condescending tone. I was too flabbergasted to reply, and she probably wouldn't have listened anyway, because people in the dominant culture talk about other holidays grudgingly as some kind of "duty" and take any statement about how they aren't the only people in the world and Christmas isn't the default as being somehow a war on them.

And you know, I would rather they fully talked about Christmas one day, Chanukah the next, Kwanzaa the next, and called them what they were, than give a 30 second mention of Chanukah and Kwanzaa grudgingly, while portraying "generic holiday" with the Christmas trimmings. *That's* fucking offensive.

[ranger-hotsauce.livejournal.com]

while portraying "generic holiday" with the Christmas trimmings. *That's* fucking offensive.
Not addressing your point in the slightest, but it reminds me of when I was in Malaysia. I was there during Ramadan, which took place in June that year, and all the stores had signs saying things like "seasons greetings!" along with colorful displays of lights, tinsel, garland, and the like. I found it interesting.

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

See, here's the thing. You say: "Happy Hanukah"

I say... what? "Thanks. Actually, it was over a week ago, and it's really a minor unimportant occasion that isn't even a day off. I don't do anything for it except light candles in the evening and then go on with my life like it's an ordinary day, which it is, so as much as I appreciate you mentioning it, it's really not worth mentioning."

And nobody would know about it if it didn't happen to fall on Christmas. I don't _want_ Channukah lumped into the same bucket as Christmas. If you're going to educate people about my religion, tell'em that we celebrate our New Year's in September, or something. Tell them about the occasions that matter. Mentioning Hanukkah just because it happens to be around the same time of the year as Christmas, to me that is every bit as offensive as the rest of the pseudo-pc "holiday" policies.