Who are people who find Christmas offensive

Exactly. I've never yet on any of these threads which appear yearly like clockwork seen an example banning Christmas.

I work at a boarding school with kids from all over. We do Christmas outings, lunch etc and they all love it. The only thing that they don't do is the church service if they aren't Christians. So no offence taken by other cultures. It's a daily mail/reform thing to make us resent immigrants.

In our school (to be fair, it has been a few years) 65-70% of the student body speaks a foreign language as their native language. Obviously there are Christians in the mix as well but majority are muslim. The ones that complain are the "non-foreigner" local atheists. Same on out scoutd Christmas party. The Muslim and Hindus are the most active in Christmas Carol singing.

My guess a lot of times when places make the 'don't want to offend' decisions haven't actually spoken to anyone. I've noticed in my hobbies that the concern doesn't usually come from the target group. Meaning whenever we talk about fees. The ones most concerned about affordability for others and need everything to be practically free are the ones who can afford it, the ones who have less (unemployed, students) etc. Have never complained and alway pay in time.

Because it’s not running solely for Christmas?

Banning the word Christmas literally never happened

That’s just it becoming Americanised though

It is a winter market is it not?
Do we not want people to enjoy the holidays, if they have some?

I think that's a good way of putting it - its subtle but its there. And actually I think its overwhelming generated by 'white British' secular Guardian readers, many of whom enjoy a little bit of 'owning the Christians' if they're honest about it.

As a Christian I draw a clear distinction in my mind between Christmas the Christian festival and Christmas the food'n'tat fest. I celebrate both quite happily, but I think for most Brits of all beliefs Christmas is just the latter and isn't offensive to anyone

And yet they are holding 'Christmas' concerts there

I mean, christans actually renamed a midwinter festival, and so I feel people can call it what they like, and celebrate how they like. I hope you can celebrate in ways that are meaningful to you, and let others do the same. Nobody owns christmas.

I can give an example.
Birmingham City Council.
The Christmas Market in the city ( rubbish though it is) is now officially called the Winter Market.
The Christmas lights in the town flash “ Happy Holidays”
iThere must be some very offended councillors.

This is a lovely uniting topic. Both sides get to overstate their claim and feel very smug about how right their are.

”You can’t say Christmas these days”, clearly false.

”This literally never happens”, also clearly false.

Wow - this is the most obvious example of faux-outraged shit-stirring. Nobody is offended. Hilarious that you couldn't dig up a more recent example than some local nonsense in Stoke on Trent from 2014

Oh my god, someone here fell for the Tesco trees story 😂. Disappointed but not surprised.

It’s,as far as I am aware, not about anyone finding Christmas offensive, but about making one lot of celebrations to include all midwinter-adjacent celebrations.

This is a total myth designed to titillate the tabloids. There are stories about Christmas being “banned” in the papers every year and invariably they turn out to be a massive overstatement of what’s happened.

I have worked with numerous Muslim and Jewish people over the years in different organisations and none of them has ever been “offended” by Christmas.

If you were bothered to look at the full picture, all the trees are in a large cardboard crate, labelled 'Christmas trees', they have option including 'evergreen' but also one with built in LED lights, an alpine snow version.

The cake is a fruit cake, the box it is in has Christmas trees and there is holly on the cake. Again it is one of a variety of cakes.

On the Stoke on Trent City Council website there are frequent mentions about Christmas and not one (that I could find) about Winterfest.

I lived in a mainly Muslim area for 10 years. Every year without fail my next door Muslim neighbour would bring me round chocolates and biscuits for Christmas.

After an hour of googling is that the best you can do? Stoke on Trent council 11 years ago?

We call it Christmas as it’s the traditional name for the celebration although we are atheists so has no religious significance for us

I do think this is more to do with the creeping use of American phrasing. You see that everywhere now

Here's another example (Winter Market rather than Christmas Market):

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/activity/winter-market/

I think OP is refering to the people who pressure for the word Christmas to be avoided in case it offends the delicate sensitivities of some other religious and cultural groups. Regardless of how other people celebrate or what deity they wordhip (or dont worship) Britain is supposed to be a Christian country. I am agnostic bit I see no offence in people celebrating an important religious event. No more than some of my neighbours celebrating Ramadan or visinng the Seikh temple. Im sure they are not offended and many of my Muslim neighbours decorate their houses and have flashing lights which can be seen all down the street.

The side of christmas I find deeply offensive is the pressure to consume and spend money on tat. Its offensive that parents with little money for necessities are made to feel bad about not being able to buy their children the latest tech or advertised tacky toy.

Yes but it was cancelled until Donald Trump brought Christmas back in 2016.