Posted on 12/24/2016 8:34:04 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
I’m still trying to actually find, here in uber liberal Northern California, with many friends who work for the government even, ANY incident of anyone, anywhere facing any type of opprobrium for saying ‘Merry Christmas’.
“A ‘schizophrenic felon’ and ‘Al Sharpton’ did!”
Repetitively redundant over n over agin n agin !
One of the best statements I ever read about this nonsensical “holiday” was by someone here on FR: The only people who celebrate Kwanzaa are white, female elementary school teachers.
Kwanzaa is Ghetto Festivus.
I remember that post too.
“I’m still trying to actually find, here in uber liberal Northern California, with many friends who work for the government even, ANY incident of anyone, anywhere facing any type of opprobrium for saying ‘Merry Christmas’.”
I am in Northern CA too, and I’ve not heard of anyone being criticized for saying Merry Christmas.
And to be honest, I never paid attention to when people started to say Happy Holidays. But, I started to get grumpy about people saying it to me a few years ago.
Alot of employers in the service industry dictate that Happy Holidays be used...it may be invisible to you as a customer, but the employee may be under strict orders not to say Merry Christmas.
That’s a perfect illustration from The Simpsons.
No nation in Africa recognizes Kwanzaa.
Maybe so. I know I was wished “Merry Christmas” a Starbucks, Peet’s Coffee and aJC Penney employee recently... i think “Happy Holidays” is not exactly recent :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7aivTkmH8g
Futurama, actually. Same guy that does The Simpsons, though.
Good link in the article for more info about this made up holiday:
http://www.weirdrepublic.com/episode27.htm
I'm not happy with them forbidding their employees from responding to a customer's 'Merry Christmas' with a 'Merry Christmas!' of their own.
Actually, a good way to respond to someone who says “Happy Holidays” is to say “Happy HOLY Days” to you, too!
Or blandly as ‘which holidays are those?’
ask!
June Teenth? LOL
Did you forget “old maid”?
I bagged groceries as a teen in ‘64-’65. I remember the lady manager telling us to say “Seasons Greetings”. What a crock.
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