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.

One of your other accounts has already posted this bullshit and been laughed off the thread...

Oh yeah, the 'who can we be offended for?' gang, who, oddly, like to talk a lot but not actually do much to change anything (if it does actually need changing).

Except it tends to be the 'rightie' media making it up @Livelovebehappy

It started on the 1st November which is hardly Christmas is it?

um surely it's the right that perpetuates this myth?! Your hypothetical Corbyn shagger would want a woke non denominational holiday (if the person even existed which they don't)

This Birmingham "winter market" ??
https://thebfcm.co.uk/

I agree. Most of the "Christmas" stuff is actually just midwinter stuff based around killing animals and feasting and having time off from farm work.
I go to church and give to charity at Christmas and those are the Christian bits for me (not saying that Christians have a monopoly on charity). I couldn't care less if other things are called "festive" or "midwinter".

Forget the date, the article doesn’t say who is offended does it? Does some councillor in Stoke hate Christmas?! 🤣🙈lol

Except it’s the reform lot trying to push that Christmas has been “cancelled”, and whipping themselves up into a rage over it. So much so they won’t actually enjoy the season. Meanwhile us “liberal lefties” are laughing and having a nice drink!

If you are so offended go to their Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market or all the Christmas events they've listed:

https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50062/christmas_in_birmingham/2815/wd_christmas_events_in_birmingham

[again, no-one has banned the word 'Christmas']

It’s a huge claim to make that anything literally never happened.

Anyway, I’m not here to fight on either side here. But yes, many organisations have moved toward more generic greetings and namings, sometimes alongside continuing to use Christmas too. And many orgs continue to say Christmas as they always have done. So both sides get their fun.

Op, that article is from 2014. Were you that desperate to find a source to back up your claims? I've seen the outrage on social media about Tesco and its 'evergreen trees'. I was in my local Tesco yesterday and checked out the claims. The word 'Christmas' is everywhere (yes, even the trees). There is no offence, or ban on Christmas, other than in the fevered minds of Daily Mail-readers (or 2014 Independent readers I suppose). Another tactic used by unscrupulous individuals to sow division and discord among normal people.

Don’t know anyone who is offended by Christmas!

DC go to a lovely inner city multicultural school - parents from many religions and backgrounds attend the school Christmas fair and kids Christmas show!

Nobody is offended. The worst kind of flag waving racists simply claim people are offended to stir up the hatred they thrive on.

It's all nonsense made up by Reform types

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/tesco-is-celebrating-christmas-contrary-misleading-online-posts-2025-11-20/

OP have you got any other examples other than Stoke on Trent council from 2014?

I’ve worked across multiple public sector bodies and no one has shied away from Christmas, I definitely see inclusivity mentioning major religious festivals from other religions mentioned, but never seen Christmas avoided.

What a load of rubbish.

The OP seems to have plopped and run.

It's the daily diet for the hard-of-thinking Reformers. They need to keep up their apoplexy levels.

I'm a 'Corbyn shagger' and love to do Christmas presents with my Muslim neighbours.

Oh - has the manfactured culture war outrage calendar moved on from poppy rage to 'they are banning christmas'? I love the warming glow of seasonal confected outrage - 'tis the season

I know this is pedantic, but relatively few Brits are atheists judging by surveys. And IIRC atheism is actually an older people thing these days. Most Brits are non-religious in the traditional sense, but aren't atheist. And even then we're really only talking about white Brits. The current massive wave of imimmigration isn't exactly a win for secularism.

I don’t understand where this Tesco crap has come from. It’s the style of the tree. Evergreen tree (green), Snowy tree (you guessed it has fake snow on it). It’s so people who want a green tree know what’s inside the box and don’t accidentally buy one with snow on it. All shops have been doing this for years so customer know the difference between the types. Asda are also naming their trees this way btw, I saw them yesterday but no one is gunning for them for some reason.

I think this is just another creeping Americanisation. For a long time in the US they have used terms like “Happy Holidays” to cover a long festive period from Thanksgiving to Christmas - including Hannukah. So the term has been generalised.

In the UK we absorb and adopt lot of US culture, and those ranting about “creeping Islamification” never seem to worry about creeping Americanisation. In fact many of those people continually appeal to Donald Trump !

And the outrage is entirely manufactured. On social media, it seems like the idiot army learn what today’s outrage is (oh no Tesco evergreen trees) and all go nuts posting about that. Next day - new outrage for them to sheepishly grift about.

Come on! It's an annual ritual. Like moaning when the clocks go back/forward.

I don't think it's a huge claim to be fair. No one has ever shown any proof that it's been banned. Moving towards a more generic greeting or categorising a group of events occuring in winter as a winter festival doesn't mean Christmas has been banned.

If someone provides any proof I will happily change my opinion but until then I maintain it's accurate to say it has never happened.

In the last few years the company I work for has switched from using Christmas to words like Festive, winter and holidays for internal staff events and communications around Christmas. So, I think this stuff does happen on a small scale but it’s just misguided DEI not some big conspiracy.
Both sides need to calm down, yes the word Christmas is sometimes swapped for another word, no it’s not because it’s been banned or because people are offended.