Who are people who find Christmas offensive

[Blopi]

It really boils my piss when organisations curtail Christmas stuff as it may offend people.

Who are these people who find Christmas offensive? In my life I have worked and met people from various religions, cultures and countries. NOT one found Christmas and things that go with it. I didn’t work with Jehovah Witnesses but they don’t get offended. Most said they decorated their homes, wore Xmas jumpers and ate food which was suitable or tailored to their religion. Those who didn’t decorate their homes love seeing trees lit up.

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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).

Oh joy, this again. Hiding thread.

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

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

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.

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

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'!

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

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.

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.

Which garden centre is this?

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

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

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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?

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🙄).

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

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

And largely imported by a German (Prince Albert)!

Nobody is offended by Christmas and nobody is banning it.

Organisations may ask for celebrations to be inclusive, so not too alcohol focussed not too much religion without recognising other faiths, ensuring dietary requirements are met, ensuring disabled and neurodiverse people aren't excluded.

At my workplace we celebrate Christmas but we also celebrate Diwali, Eid, Hanukkah, Chinese New Year, St Patrick's Day, and various secular festivals.

Why not? It's hardly outing.

Does anyone really have to issue an outright ban though ? The notion that putting up a tree or designating a ‘Christmas’ market, or any other public Christmas event is going to offend others can be enough in itself.

Our local Christmas market has always been designated as such, up until this year. Now it’s a Winter Fayre. The Christmas trappings still appear but the the actual word doesn’t appear in any of the advertising. Someone, somewhere has made that decision on behalf of everyone. It may not be a ban, but l do think there’s a certain amount of policing going on by those who take it upon themselves to be offended on behalf of other cultures and denominations, who in reality haven’t raised any objections.

Bloody Germans. Coming over here and importing their traditions 😁

I don't think posters are being disingenuous, maybe fed up at the annual madey upy I'm-so-furious-Christmas-is-banned threads that appear like clockwork that are divisive and a tad racist. Every example given on here of organisations avoiding the word Christmas is untrue they all very much use that word a lot. No-one has yet provided examples where this happens. IRL I have never come across this or anyone alleging to be offended by the word Christmas. {Maybe your New York example would be to do with the fact that they have the largest community of Jews outside of Israel? Just a guess? But I would have disagreed with the restaurant)

And every year the Daily Mail and the Telegraph perpetuate this myth and wind up their readers (and make money).