The biggest reason the war on “Happy Holidays” is dumb as fuck is that even in a strictly Christian context, the holidays in question are Christmas and New Year’s.
Even the most carefully sheltered religious ignoramous who’s never heard of Diwali or Chanukah HAS heard of New Year’s Day. You know—that thing that happens a week after Christmas? That’s often a government-mandated statutory holiday? Where all the calendars change? So close to Christmas that many businesses, schools, and other institutions often take the days between them off too?
It’s so absolutely clear that the grown adults peddling this crap are making something up to get angry about, because Christians have been wishing each other Happy Holidays for centuries. (Twelve whole days of Christmas, and extra events like Epiphany or Feast of the Innocents, too! These days we even get Second Christmas, for the Julian calendar folks!)
They’re not angry about “erasing Christmas”. Christmas is indelible. They’re angry at having to acknowledge literally any other religion as having a right to exist, more or less. They want to live in a theocracy, while simultaneously saying that religious oppression would be terrible if it happened… to them.
I’m so goddamn sick of it. Of people who ask “Which holidays?” as if it’s some sort of sick burn, not something that can slide from moderate inanity through to actively bigoted malice.
Keep Christ in Christmas?
Great idea. You start. Love your neighbour and shut the fuck up.
