Who are people who find Christmas offensive

My local Tesco actually stock a wide range of vegetables in December. Any sensible person would be eating carrots and brussel sprouts! Possibly parsnips and red cabbage but nobody needs broccoli etc. My granny never ate broccoli in December.

I actually want to know more now! Maybe you should do an AMA about it.

This. It’s lack of funding, plain and simple.

And the Americans have been using it since the 1860s. Back then , they weren’t exactly paragons of virtue or wokeness , were they ?

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Does anyone ever say that in the UK?

I mean, this is a stupid tangent that has nothing to do with anyone banning anything.

There will be plenty of councils of all political hues who can no longer fund Christmas lights when 10 or 20 years ago they could.

It's a pretty small part of my life. But I'm happy to piss off anyone going on about its Christian significance. Same old symbolic appropriation that all religions like to indulge in. Some people do love to get irritated. All about fitting in with who they want to fit in with.

Yep OH is an astronomer

Basically - racists pretending to be patriots say crap like this to make others feel they need to ‘get their country back’.
please don’t fall for this nonsense.

Do you often organise things by the astronomical calendar?

It is a result of the action and policy of the Reform Kent Council.
Again, based on factual evidence in this thread so far:
Council Christmas lights stopped by the action of the woke= 0
Council Christmas lights stopped by the action of Reform=1

@LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway

It's not made up nonsense either. If they are being honest, everyone alive in this country, knows of at least 3 or 4 councils who have banned Christmas signs, and schools that have nonsensical 'plays' in mid December

Hand on heart have never come across it during my decades in this country. Other than on here or right wing media

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Astronomical winter is 21 December so a month away. Winter does not start on 1 December

Well... Googling this topic, I learned that: "on a smaller scale, some atheist and skeptic groups celebrate Newtonmas on December 25th as a secular alternative."

So for the 'Bah Humbug'/'I'm offended, me'... brigade, I give you the British Humanist Happy Newtonmas card. (Please can any mathematicians around explain the mathematical symbols? It's a bit subtle for me...)

https://humanists.uk/shop/newtonmas-christmas-card/

On first page:

The Winter Fair really is the perfect way to get into the festive spirit and kick off your Christmas preparations.

And it starts in November

A week before, is close enough to winter.

Can you give us actual examples?

The phrase Happy Holidays is very much an Americanisation not anything 'woke'.

I've also just looked up Christmas cakes on Tesco & there's a whole section with Christmas all over it for example a new product called Christmas Cupcake platter, as well as some products called what they are like fruit,gingerbread, apple etc. I assume many of those are products they'll sell more broadly throughout the Winter months & not just the run up to Christmas.

It’s not a ban. It just doesn’t have any money.

There are some that take exception to it op, and I have heard them first hand, as they claim that the U.K. isn’t Christian any longer and Christmas shouldn’t be more important/bigger than other religious festivals.

I also know of people triggered by Christmas and certain songs due to childhood trauma.

We will always enjoy a huge Christmas here as culturally it’s the highlight of the winter for British society. Not everyone has to join in.

Yep it is. So far no one has been able to name a Council who has actually banned Christmas lights, but the actions of a Reform council means at least one Parish won't have them (although they are still paying for them).
So far, based on evidence:
Christmas lights stopped by the woke=0
Christmas lights stopped by Reform = 1

We had one of those plays last year. The person who normally does the plays was off on long term sick , so the person covering picked a random thing off BBC because it came with everything needed , it was free, was suitable for the number of children and it kept the “tradition “ of musical plays. The main thought behind it was “easy, quick, doesn’t add to my stupidly high already workload”.

@Smilesinthesunshine

as a previous poster pointed out both sides are wrong

Every time someone posts evidence it's shot down in flames and shown to be incorrect. Previous poster is wrong.

Name just one of these councils.