• buddhabound@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just say whatever you want to say.

    That’s the point of the meme. I generally try to tailor my season’s greetings to the person I’m talking to, if I can tell they might have a preference. Someone standing in front of me with a Jesus is the reason for the season sweatshirt on? Probably gonna get “Merry Christmas”. The goth kid that was in line in front of them? Probably getting “Happy Holidays”.

    Would the goth kid complain to my boss about what I say to the other person? Almost certainly not. Will the “Christmas” person complain because they overheard someone say “Happy Holidays”? It’s quite likely. Do I care what either of them say to me? Nope.

    That’s the thing. We’d like to be able to say whatever seems right, but for some fucking reason, “some people” get up in arms and pretend like they can’t say “Merry Christmas” when literally no one cares what greeting you use, except the same people complaining about what they “can’t say”.

    Also, sidenote: the venn diagram for people who complain that they can’t say “Merry Christmas” and the people who intentionally misgender people is damn near a perfect circle.

    • paddirn@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s a victimization fetish, which is probably why they’re such a reliably consistent voting group, because they can be whipped up into a frenzy over anything and are constantly made to feel like their way of life is under attack. That entire world view uses that as justification for anything they do, since they’re already “under attack”, that completely excuses any trash thing that they do because they “didn’t start it”. They can never do anything wrong because everybody else already did something wrong first (whataboutism).

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        1 year ago

        Reminds me, there was a study done with brain scans to see if there was a difference between liberal and conservative brains. Conservatives have larger amygdalas on average, so makes sense that their fight or flight reactions are higher.

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      I won’t be surprised if besides that made up thing was created as a populist political point (I’d let you keep it, now vote), it could be also created as a marketing one (buy our xmas\alt-xmas merch to show 'em, btw we sell both). And that it’s probably came as a part of the red scare, in spite of commies having long-going traditions around the New Year celebrations, some even more noticeable like statesmen adressing the nation at 00:00.