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University Prof Wants You to Say This Instead of 'Merry Christmas' to Stomp Out ...
The Blaze ^ | December 23, 2015 | Jason Howerton

Posted on 12/23/2015 10:22:27 AM PST by Zakeet

Complete Headline: University Prof Wants You to Say This Instead of 'Merry Christmas' to Stomp Out 'Cultural Insensitivity'

Instead of saying "merry Christmas" this year, a University of Central Florida political science professor wants you to try out a new phrase: "Happy federal holiday."

The professor, Terri Susan Fine, argued in an editorial published in UCF Today that "we show cultural insensitivity both by equating one major holiday with a minor holiday and failing to recognize that diversity includes those who celebrate neither holiday."

When you say "merry Christmas" or "happy Chanukah," you're not being "inclusive" enough, according to Fine.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christians; discrimination; education; pc
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To: Zakeet
Guilty

21 posted on 12/23/2015 10:32:47 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Stop using the Christian date system. Use something else!

They already do: C.E., for "Common Era". They also use "BCE", for "Before Common Era".

It's the Christian calendar relabled.

22 posted on 12/23/2015 10:32:49 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: Zakeet

How do they feel about saying “aloha snackbar”?


23 posted on 12/23/2015 10:33:43 AM PST by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: Organic Panic

That was my thought when I read it. The “Federal God” must be given its due. Does that mean that the 10th amendment makes the states “minor gods”? So much for separation of church and state!


24 posted on 12/23/2015 10:33:56 AM PST by Purdue77 ("...shall not be infringed.")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

[[cultural insensitivity]]

It’s when you don’t run up and hug a homosexual and tell them how much you love their sin and how happy you are that they are out to destroy them oral culture In this country.

It’s when you cite a bible verse to anyone in public

It’s when you Give Credit to God for anything

It’s when you practice your religious belief, which is your constitutionally protected right to do so, and don’t bake a cake for a gay couple

It’s when... Heck- it’s when you don’t fall at the feet of the left and lick their boots clean for them


25 posted on 12/23/2015 10:35:07 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Zakeet

“Happy federal holiday”

That’s one of the days that Boxer gets to rest before being sent to the glue factory, right?


26 posted on 12/23/2015 10:35:23 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: euram

Agreed.


27 posted on 12/23/2015 10:35:52 AM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Zakeet

A total waste of “federal” and state taxpayer monies

Get rid of this bitch. Fire her sorry ***


28 posted on 12/23/2015 10:37:18 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Muslim silence = complicity. Muslim immigration: END it, can't mend it)
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To: Zakeet

I don’t say “Merry Christmas.”
I say “Merry Christ Mass.”


29 posted on 12/23/2015 10:37:55 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Zakeet

This cretin is a university professor, huh?

SIGH.

I make it a point to say “Merry Christmas” to every single person I meet these days. If someone idiot is offended by it, that’s THEIR problem.


30 posted on 12/23/2015 10:38:29 AM PST by Pravious
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To: Old Sarge
It's the Christian calendar relabled.

It's the Christian Calender that they are attempting to call something else because they *HATE* that Christianity is the foundation of our dating system.

Nobody pays attention to "common era" crap. It is more or less universally still "A.D."

31 posted on 12/23/2015 10:39:07 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Zakeet

And this moron gets paid for poisoning young minds.


32 posted on 12/23/2015 10:39:59 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Zakeet

And this moron gets paid for poisoning young minds.


33 posted on 12/23/2015 10:39:59 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Zakeet

This insensitive clown doesn’t go nearly far enough, because it offends those offended by the government’s insistence that we celebrate those days it orders us to celebrate. Instead, this:

Happy Merry Festive Significant Observant Noted Protested Ignored Endured Inclusive Something or Other All things to All People with Apologies to All.

And, of course, I apologize to anyone demanding it for any reason.


34 posted on 12/23/2015 10:40:31 AM PST by DPMD
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To: DiogenesLamp

Jews use different dates.


35 posted on 12/23/2015 10:41:43 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: Zakeet
Maybe Terri Susan Fine is the granddaughter of Larry Fine and she is just trying to be funny. She sounds like a Grand Stooge to me.
36 posted on 12/23/2015 10:42:01 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Zakeet

“Holiday” is derived from “Holy Days”. It is Old English.

Happy Holy Days!!!!


37 posted on 12/23/2015 10:42:02 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Zakeet

BTW, Merry Christmas Marines!
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38 posted on 12/23/2015 10:42:02 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: Zakeet

I call the word “diversity” the “D” word because it has become obscene to me.

.


39 posted on 12/23/2015 10:42:12 AM PST by Mears
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To: Cowboy Bob

They make them.


40 posted on 12/23/2015 10:42:47 AM PST by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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