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.

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.

A week before, is close enough to winter.

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

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/

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

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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

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

Do you often organise things by the astronomical calendar?

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.

Yep OH is an astronomer

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.

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.

Does anyone ever say that in the UK?

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

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

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

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.

CHRISTMAS!!!!
There, I said it.
I'll await the po po.
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Better alert Noddy H as well 🤪

So once again this thread goes exactly as I and others predicted. Almost 400 posts and not one concrete example of banning Christmas to be found. Surprise, surprise.

I don't think they exist, OP.

It's a form of middle class racism where they think that those poor brown people can't possibly cope with us having a (not even that religiously based, these days) party/festival.

I find Christmas tat offensive from an environmental perspective, but that is another point entirely!

I think the last person to ban Christmas in Britain was Oliver Cromwell. Bloody.woke Puritans.

How is this racism? Is there a specific skin colour that doesn’t do Christmas? The whole debate is about ‘woke’ and pandering to a tiny minority of people, who probably aren’t even from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Not saying I agree with the debate, I don't really care what these things are called. Tesco is draping with Christmas stuff, it being called an evergreen tree on a tiny placard doesn’t change anything.

I work in marketing and we use a lot of synonyms such as the holidays, winter season, festive season etc. It’s not to avoid offending people of other religions, it’s because

1. Christmas now starts in October but that’s very early so we can span the whole of that time if we call it winter/festive time.
2. There are only so many times you can use the word Christmas in an email or on a website without it being too much.
3. We don’t have to rewrite everything on the 27th Dec. Christmas is over but winter/the holidays aren’t.
4. We can sell products at other times of the year if they don’t specifically mention Christmas.
5. We can avoid offending some Christians who still see Christmas as a religious holiday and the birth of Jesus Christ, rather than the inclusive (commercial) occasion that people of many religions celebrate by buying things like OTT decorations and novelty gifts despite not believing in/caring about Jesus.

Christmas is so far removed from its religious roots that it actually has become just a time of year rather than a religious holiday.
At this point, is it much different to putting up loads of lights and saying you’re celebrating Divali even though you have no interest in Hinduism? I haven’t asked any Hindus if they’d be offended, but surely “Festival of Lights” would be a better choice of name, rather than pretending you’re celebrating a religious Hindu festival when you’re actually just picking and choosing the fun bits you like.