Who are people who find Christmas offensive

So what are these couple of Muslims from Birmingham doing or saying?

Don't want to put their name but it's in the very south of England.

Exactly this! It is a financial decision to stretch out the season and be able to run events either side of Christmas.
The descriptors such as iced fruit cake are for people who do/do not like icing- the shop wants to make money and still have a huge amount of Christmas branded items.
The countdown calender is to appeal to the ( huge amount of) people who no longer use or understand the term "advent" and do not use an advent calendar. It is the general public losing these traditions- not the "woke".
And as I mentioned earlier the only actual documented council not having Christmas lights this year is a reform council.

Seasons greetings all! (As seen on Christmas cards in the renown woke Victorian era🙄).

Totally false. The Tesco website has a whole section devoted to "Christmas" with a choice of 95 different "Christmas" trees. Did you hear this on GB News? Or read it in a tweet by Reform UK?

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I've come across a couple of examples of this. Both Muslims from Birmingham.

Interestingly what we think of as traditional British Christmas only really dates back to Victorian period. Before the Victorian revival of Christmas as a family focussed festival Christmas had declined in importance as a festival and wasn't really observed that much. Pre Civil war Christmas was more of a wild and rather spooky pagan affair

Which garden centre is this?

I think this is the point - it’s not ‘banning’ Christmas as such, but a definite toning down of some elements. As an example our local Christmas market has always been called that. This year it’s a winter market - no mention of the word Christmas. You do have to ask yourself why little things like this are creeping in, but l don’t think it’s necessarily because anyone is actually objecting - we live in an area of high immigration and people of all faiths take part in various multi-cultural events. I get the feeling that it’s more down to people determined to be offended on behalf of others, rather than other faiths or cultures actually taking offence.

Just as an aside, a poster upthread says all of Tesco’s boxed Christmas trees have the word Christmas on them. They don’t. We bought one of the Evergreen trees mentioned and although they were displayed within a Christmas setting in store, the word Christmas doesn’t appear on the box.

No one is stopping anyone referring to Christmas though. That's the point most of us are making it's all nonsensical chatter that anything is being banned or changed.

I'd love to see some evidence of it being banned.

75% think OP is NBU. 🤯There is no hope for MN.

But why shouldn't we refer to 'Christmas' as we have always done? We don't make a fuss if people living in the UK celebrate Chinese New Year, Diwali, The Prophet's Birthday or Eid or expect them to change the name of that celebration! My local garden centre has just advertised that they are selling 'live trees' - no mention of 'Christmas trees'!

Do tell us who is offended.
Also who is trying to control Christmas or anything else?

It’s not the ’leftie Corbyn shagger types’ as you so quaintly put it who perpetuate this myth, nor are they the ones who want to divide the country. It’s the extreme right who make the fuss, want to divide peaceful communities and in addition do their best to blame the ‘lefties’ for their own behaviour.

You might recognise yourself there.

Exactly. And they're all available under a massive Tesco-branded banner saying "CHRISTMAS TREES". 🙄

According to Wikipedia, Seasons Greetings became commonplace in the 1920s. It’s that woke Time Machine again.

Oh joy, this again. Hiding thread.

My very multicultural workplace.tends to opt for variations on "Happy Christmas break however you are spending it". I think that is fine, as it acknowledges Christmas but also the fact not everyone celebrates it (including some nominally Christian people who for various reasons find Christmas difficult).

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Every day is chocolate day at Cadbury.

DH used to design the Christmas cards for his company and at some point was told he was no longer allowed to use the word Christmas. I would have thought that was quite common among companies. I can see both sides of the argument for/against it tbh.

The Christmas Market in the city ( rubbish though it is) is now officially called the Winter Market

You sure about that?

This thread is a thinly veiled anti immigration thread.

No one finds Christmas offensive. HTH.

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