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.

Normally I can Google better results (ie more recent)

One thing I hate is the phrase Happy Holidays.

They didn't have to change it. They may have chosen to change it because someone in management is stupid, but that is a different issue.

I've never been on GB News in my life. I'm repeating what I saw shared by a friend, including screenshots. Did you note that my post was not a complaint?

I think the evergreen trees were as a distinction from silver, white, pink tinsel etc.

My husband’s workplace have had to change “Christmas party” to “Winter party” and Easter is now “chocolate day”, all because ONE PERSON found the original names offensive and complained. This is in the UK.
Of course this isn't true. It is just posted to stir up dissent.

Tesco now has "Evergreen Trees" vs naming them Christmas Trees. Thats a recent one but there was no Because...

Amongst all their merchandise that still bears the name Christmas...

It never was! The pagans celebrated the longest day of the year, usually in the "Christmas" week. Early christians appropiated that festival to foist their religion onto us (as they did with the existing pagan easter festivals). So christ wasn't born in December (if he was born at all), he wasn't reseurected at easter (if that ever happened) and according to the latest UK census, we are no longer a christian country. Enjoy your christmas celebrations and I will enjoy my Winterfest.

That's an American term that has been around for decades. Happily it's never caught on in the UK.

I’m an atheist and so do I.

Many people don’t like dried fruit. Or can take alcohol for medical reasons

But somehow you haven’t seen all the other Christmas stuff (including trees) clearly labelled as such? You need to get your eyesight tested.

Another example of people frothing pointlessly. My DH stepmum posted on FB that she'd been told we can't say Christmas or Easter any more. I'd love to ask her to substantiate that claim and say who 'told' her this. Pretty sure nobody ever has said you can't say Christmas and Easter. Other words also exist to describe times of the year eg 'festive', 'winter', 'spring' etc. Some people might choose to use them, others might not. I've never yet heard of anyone actually being offended by Christmas or Easter.

And we all have a choice when it comes to supermarkets anyway. Just vote with your feet and shop elsewhere if you find it offensive. I don’t shop at Tescos, but only because their food is crap.

People are being rather disingenuous here.

There are many many examples of companies / councils avoiding the word Christmas in favour of "festive season" or similar for years.

No doubt this was done to be inclusive.

Pointing it out - and that it's ridiculous because non Christian communities probably couldn't give a damn - does not mean you're part of a stupid Mail reading right wing conspiracy.

The levels of patronising admonishment on this thread.. it's like a James O'Brien phone in.

I find this nonsense offensive. Absolutely nobody finds Christmas offensive. Its a made up dog whistle.

Do you also hate “Seasons Greetings”? That’s been around a while.

asking them what their plans were over the Christmas break

If that was exactly how you phrased it and it's in the UK they were a bit daft then. The Gov.UK website lists Christmas Day and Boxing Day bank holidays, so you were correct calling it the Christmas break.

However, if you asked two Muslims what they were doing for Christmas, then that's a bit tactless

This is the thing I’m talking about

I've never come across anyone who finds Christmas offensive, most people who are not Christian celebrate it in a secular way.

The Ultra-Orthodox Jews, eg Hassidic, do not acknowledge Christmas but have no objection to anyone else doing so.

I am not religious in the slightest but I like a celebration and Christmas is as good an excuse as any.
I don’t see it all as a religious occasion, Santa isn’t part of religion and it’s all about the presents, food drink and spending time with family.
I was surprised at Easter when the school cancelled the Easter activities for inclusion reasons especially when at other times my children come home with a Diwali lamp they made or something from other cultures but their own must be excluded though.

I can’t say they were offended by the Diwali lamp so I don’t see Easter as anything to be offended of other than an excuse to eat chocolate so don’t see why they should have to be discreet or ashamed about their own culture.

But it’s not done because anyone is offended. It’s done (positive spin) so everyone can be involved or (negative spin) for sound commercial reasons.

And if this had been a well known company and official policy you can bet the media would have been all over it.

OP please read through your own thread. This was debunked ages ago

Please tell is more. Assuming they’re actually working over Easter, most work places don’t actually have Easter celebrations. Do they say to eachother “Happy chocolate day”, “Are you working on chocolate day?”, “FFS I can’t believe I have to work on chocolate day!” ?

How exactly has this rebranding happened?

I work at a university and a few years ago, someone complained about our Christmas party not being inclusive, so it got renamed Winter Social. It’s the same event (buffet meal). Honestly I do feel a bit upset - we don’t have a party because of the season (it’s the only social event of the year!).