I work with people in three different time zones. There is always someone having a flower festival, religious day or national holiday. Nobody gets offended for forgetting a holiday or if they did they don’t last long.
Maybe that’s actually why they support fascism-lite?
They only support fascism-lite because it’s the next step on the way to pure-fascism.
I have a neighbor just like this who INSISTS this is a Christian country and it’s Christmas break not WiNtEr break. Satan’s greetings from ya main witch! ✨🥰
I always like the “Put Saturn back in Saturday” retort
Same! Love this!!
I’m stealing this, I hope you know.
First time I’ve heard someone upset over calling it “winter break.” People are wild
People are wild, they forget that sometimes. And some of those wild people really do love being victims, even if it is self made drama lol
Happy summer solstice! / ☀️🌊🎄🇦🇺
I love it, wishing you all a bright solstice! ✨🤩
Oh, I like that a lot >:D Jab 'em in both the 'Murica and the Christianity devious cackling ensues
People not participating in their tradition is offensive to them
This meme is pushing it because, well, meme. And that’s all fine.
As a non-native atheist speaker, though, I have to say “happy holidays” just doesn’t roll off the tongue the way “merry christmas” does.
It’s not a big deal at all, but I do find it annoying at the minimal level.
Merry War on Christmas
fuck yeah!
True story…
At work in my department they told us we can put decorations in our (at home!) office but to try and stay religiously neutral. Meanwhile in my friend’s department (same employer) they got an email to wish employees a happy Easter back in April, happy Mawlid (celebration of Muhammad’s birth) back in September and happy Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah in October…
I’m an atheist so I don’t celebrate any of these things and to me holidays should just be spread equally to give people long weekends, but I can’t help but laugh at the hypocrisy when it comes to Christmas compared to all other holidays through the year…
That’s honestly refreshing to hear that your friends department encouraged them to celebrate multiple different religious holidays. There shouldn’t be any problem celebrating religious holidays as long as they are all given equal considerations and the company doesnt play favorites.
To me anything religious should be treated as such, something private that has nothing to do with your workplace and only secular holidays should exist considering holidays are imposed by the government and there’s supposed to be a separation of religion and State (in my country anyway), but I know my opinion on this subject is pretty extreme.
The holidays we have are so commercialized they hardly feel religious to me. Christmas and Easter are just times to spend with family, nothing to do with Jesus.
What annoys me, and I’m Jewish ethnically but I’m an atheist, is the commercialization of Hanukkah. It wasn’t even a major Jewish holiday. People just decided, “well, it’s near Christmas and they used to give raisins. Good enough.” I mean just make up a new holiday or something.
Then people should have no issue with them being moved around so the holidays are equally divided throughout the year, right? There’s no importance to them happening on the specific dates they do at the moment, right?
I’d just rather add more holidays tbh.
But that won’t happen
Canada’s done it
like I am gonna say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. The guy in the $4,000 suit. COME ON!
The man on the TV said people would get angry at me for saying merry Christmas - the guy in the $6,000 suit - COME ON
These days if you say you’re English you’ll be thrown in jail!
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year and Merry Hanukkah !!
Seems fine to me!
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Yo! saturnalia!
Merry Christmas!
Happy Hondadays.
Prison. Immediately.
Christmas is a prison. – Foucault supposedly
Merry Chrysler!
People that say this are so silly.
You’re not being oppressed. It’s just that saying merry Christmas to a crowd of diverse backgrounds is like wishing your mum a happy fathers day. She won’t be mad or offended, she’ll just think she should have breastfed you.
Yeah, I say Happy Holidays to someone I know who obviously doesn’t celebrate Christmas.
Also, it is weird for conservative Americans to be offended not greeting “Happy Christmas”, when the migrant ancestors of modern Americans did not celebrate it as a holiday until more recently. Protestants thought celebrating Christmas is a Catholic abomination. Look how tables have turned and acting hypocritical as always…
Most “traditions”, including holiday traditions, food culture, etc, are incredibly recent things. But people cling to it like they are the totality of their identify.
No you don’t understand, if I can’t force everyone to be exactly like me that means I’m being oppressed!
Or telling someone “happy birthday “ when they’re in a group of people who aren’t having birthdays themselves. Only a three year old would get upset that they’re not included.
Maybe it’s different in the US and other cultures, but as an atheist I’ve never seen the phrase as a very religious thing. I say “merry Christmas” and “happy holidays” indistinctly and I’ve never seen anyone offended by the use of either, independtly of their faith (or lack thereof).
I say “merry Christmas” on the actual Christmas day though.
I prefer to use the real term, not the christian knockoff. Happy Saturnalia everyone!
I think that is is important to note that there is very little real evidence for Christmas being taken from saturnalia. You can google christmas and saturnalia and come up with plenty of web articles, but looking at the actual history of it makes it pretty clear. Christmas takes place around the same time of saturnalia, sure, but that does not make it a Christian stab at replacing it. Saturnalia was traditionally observed between the 17th and 23rd of December, not the 25th. It was a 5-7 day festival, not a one day festival. Additionally, the church is said to have gotten the 25th by taking the day John’s father was told he would have a son (shortly after the day of attonement), the new testiment statement that Elizabeth was 6 months pregnant when Jesus was conceived, and adding 40 weeks to the end for the average pregnancy. This would put Jesus born in late December. This general time line was documented as being calculated as early as CE 200s.
