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19 December 2015, 02:42 PM
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Offend who & why?
About as valid as saying' Please don't say BMW as I only like Subaru's & that word offends me.'
'Could you say 'German manufactured motor vehicle.'
'Oh dear! No.That might offend the Germans.'
'How about foreign car?'
'No,that would offend anyone foreign.'
'Oh dear.Better not say anything just to be safe.'
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19 December 2015, 03:16 PM
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Offend who & why?
About as valid as saying' Please don't say BMW as I only like Subaru's & that word offends me.'
'Could you say 'German manufactured motor vehicle.'
'Oh dear! No.That might offend the Germans.'
'How about foreign car?'
'No,that would offend anyone foreign.'
'Oh dear.Better not say anything just to be safe.'
About as valid as saying' Please don't say BMW as I only like Subaru's & that word offends me.'
'Could you say 'German manufactured motor vehicle.'
'Oh dear! No.That might offend the Germans.'
'How about foreign car?'
'No,that would offend anyone foreign.'
'Oh dear.Better not say anything just to be safe.'
19 December 2015, 03:26 PM
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19 December 2015, 06:26 PM
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Offend who & why?
About as valid as saying' Please don't say BMW as I only like Subaru's & that word offends me.'
'Could you say 'German manufactured motor vehicle.'
'Oh dear! No.That might offend the Germans.'
'How about foreign car?'
'No,that would offend anyone foreign.'
'Oh dear.Better not say anything just to be safe.'
About as valid as saying' Please don't say BMW as I only like Subaru's & that word offends me.'
'Could you say 'German manufactured motor vehicle.'
'Oh dear! No.That might offend the Germans.'
'How about foreign car?'
'No,that would offend anyone foreign.'
'Oh dear.Better not say anything just to be safe.'
"Happy Holidays" incorporates numerous holidays - not just Christmas itself, but also New Years, and Hannukah (when it happens to fall around the same time of year, although this year its closer to Thanksgiving). I find it strange that so many people seem to get offended that you don't acknowledge Christmas by name.
As someone who has a large number of non-christian friends and acquaintances, I appreciate the fact that no everyone celebrates the same holidays, so I prefer to say "Happy Holidays" rather than assuming that everyone celebrates the same holiday that I do.
Christmas is already everywhere anyway - christmas music playing in stores, christmas specials on television, christmas lights and trees everywhere, do you honestly think the holiday is diminished by a few people referring to it as a "holiday" rather than by name?
I have a Jewish friend who was yelled at in a store because he said "Happy Holidays" - the customer angrily replied "You mean MERRY CHRISTMAS". Are we now going to force someone who is not a Christian to say "Merry Christmas" simply so Christian people don't get offended or angry? If a Christian person was working in a retail establishment that forced him to say "Happy Hannukah" to customers, I honestly expect that there would be some kind of revolt from the "war on Christmas" crowd, or some Christians would boycott the store. I don't see why saying "Happy Holidays", which is all-inclusive, is really any less acceptable to Christians - and for the record, I'm a Christian myself. Happy Holidays can be said by any person, regardless of religion, and said TO any person, regardless of religion, and will cover whatever holidays either person wishes.
As a final note, I will say this - the remarks from some of the people in the "No" column are somewhat misguided. Several of them have invoked the idea of "freedom of speech" and "freedom of religion". Those principles (enshrined in the 1st Amendment) only apply to limiting what the government can do. A private citizen asking someone to say "Happy Holidays" does not offend the 1st Amendment. It only violates the 1st Amendment if the government itself tells people what they can or cannot say. If the government is not getting involved then there is no "free speech" issue.
Additionally, one person in the "no" column said that the government should "take back Christmas" and deny the holiday to anyone who is non-Christian and therefore force those people to work on Christmas. For the government to treat people differently (and to treat some in a negative manner by forcing them to do things that others don't have to) based solely on their religion actually DOES violate the freedom of religion (notice that the government is the one doing the regulating in that scenario) and therefore that suggestion would be unconstitutional.
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19 December 2015, 08:30 PM
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Who says anyone is offended by 'Merry Christmas'..............it's been debunked so many times.Try and find a real world example of anyone who is actually offended by it instead of reading media driven clap-trap.
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Someone educated beyond their intelligence.
Debated by pseudo-intellectual prissy, small minded, dinner party activists.
Remember the definition of an intellectual is;
Someone educated beyond their intelligence.
20 December 2015, 10:09 AM
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Merry-Christmas to everybody!
If it makes you feel better though, you can also say its mis-spelled equivalent
Mary-Christmas which is the translation of my first name from French
Marie-Noëlle
Don't be offended: these are Holy Days (this is from where the word holidays started: people were off work during the holy days in order to celebrate and thank their God for all the good things he gave them!)
So have happy merry holy days
If it makes you feel better though, you can also say its mis-spelled equivalent
Mary-Christmas which is the translation of my first name from French
Marie-Noëlle
Don't be offended: these are Holy Days (this is from where the word holidays started: people were off work during the holy days in order to celebrate and thank their God for all the good things he gave them!)
So have happy merry holy days
20 December 2015, 12:48 PM
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