Happy Holidays to you all! Get bent, FOX news. Let everyone celebrate the season. Now, I am off to prepare for Festivus at my house.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    That whole debate is one of the dumbest things to come out of America.

    The rest of the world doesn’t worry about it, because Christmas is like 90% secular. The Christians do their thing today, and leave the rest of us to celebrate Christmas with friends and family and too many cold cuts of meat. You can say happy holidays and nobody’s gonna get upset, but even as a non-Christian I’m more likely to wish you a merry Christmas.

    (The poms and their “happy Christmas” are weird though. Just sounds wrong.)

    • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      It just proves you can convince conservatives to be angry and scared about literally anything.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      FYI, the majority of Americans don’t give a shit either and think it’s embarrassingly stupid.

    • ThenThreeMore@startrek.websiteEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      (The poms and their “happy Christmas” are weird though. Just sounds wrong.)

      As a Brit I’ve never heard happy Christmas. It’s always merry Christmas. Then it’s happy new year.

  • CCL@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    St. Valentine’s day did not start as a secular celebration. St. Valentine lived in what is now Turkey, he became known as the patron saint of love because he used to marry Christians in secret when it was illegal to do so under Islamic rule.

  • OpenStars@kbin.social
    1·
    9 months ago

    I thought originally it meant like Merry Christmas + Happy New Year, bc professionals might take that whole week off so like “see ya next year Bob, enjoy your holidays!” (plural)

    Then some people started using it to throw in like Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Eid al-Fitr / end of Ramadan, plus there’s Buddhist, Hindu, Hispanic / Latin American (Las Posadas), Scandinavian (Lussinatta), German (Krampusnacht), Chinese (Dongzhi Festival), and in UK/Canada/Australia/New Zealand. there’s Boxing Day afterwards, etc.

    Okay so Diwali is a bit of a stretch, being more than a month earlier but it still feels like it fits:-). The rest all occur within about a month of one another, so saying “Happy Holidays” is by definition inclusive of others who may or may not share your particular religious belief structure.

    Which ofc is why Faux News had to go to war against it, promoting instead the Christmasgasm that Jesus most definitely invented (/s btw bc rather, everything He ever said or did goes directly against what they are trying to claim it is all about). But fuck Fox, do what you want, and I wish you Happy Holidays (whatever form they may take for you:-).

  • MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Some of these, especially Valentine’s day, could also be labeled “commercial” but I guess that’s the nature of capitalism to commercialize any kind of festivities.