• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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      It started because corporations offered guidance to their retail employees that shoppers preferred “Happy Holidays” because it was more inclusive. Retail drones were told what to say, and when Christians got wind of it, they lost their collective brain cell.

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        So those Christians spend December berating retail workers being paid so little they’re forced to rely on food stamps for saying the wrong thing while imagining themselves free speech warriors.

      • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
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        As a kid, I always thought it was because it was shorter than “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,” which was very common until the proliferation of “Happy Holidays” where I grew up. I have to imagine retail employees were glad to cut in half their mandatory goodbye phrase regardless of the reason.

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      I’m an atheist and ethnically Jewish and I’ve never enjoyed Christmas. If anyone would be attacking anyone for saying, “Merry Christmas,” it would be me.

      When someone says “Merry Christmas” to me, my usual response is, “thanks, you too.”

      Because, unlike Conservatives (apparently), I’m okay with people saying something I don’t agree with when they’re just trying to be friendly.

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        Meh, I make a point to say happy holidays back just because I like getting a rise out of idiots.

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      I mean, I imagine under Nero is was somewhat frowned upon. But since Constantine not really