EMMIE SMASH

[emmelinemay]

Warning, strong opinions are about to be put forth.

Someone in a dept meeting just complained that our company christmas cards (which feature a TOTALLY non-denominational picture of...our logo) said 'Happy Christmas' on the front.

Ok. If i lived and worked in, say, Israel . I would NOT complain if my company put out 'Happy Hannukah' cards. Nor would I insist they change it to 'seasons greetings'. If I lived and worked in, say, Indonesia. I wouldn't complain about people celebrating Eid.

Christmas is the holiday season here in the UK, that is the festival we choose to celebrate, be it because you are celebrating solstice, the 'birth of jesus', whatever. If you live here, accept that we celebrate christmas. It's NOT offensive to say 'Happy Christmas', i'm sorry, but it' ISN'T. Not in the UK.

I must be getting intolerant in my old age, as i am starting to get really frustrated when the majority panders to the minority 'just in case' offence is caused.

Don't even get me started on people that want to live in the UK from somewhere else but don't learn English. If i wanted to live in Germany. I'd bloody well learn German.

You know, next year, this ONE person has asked that we put 'seasons greetings' only on the cards, which currently say 'Merry Christmas' on the outside and 'Best wishes for the New Year' on the inside - because not everyone has their new year now either o_O

Feel free to offer alternative view points, if you disagree! Only well put arguments need apply...

I have to say, i was tempted to claim i was a Pastafarian,, and that i insisted that we all only eat pasta at social functions.

Comments

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

me too.

the director of the dept knows how opinionated i am and kept shooting me 'SHUT UP' looks. I just couldn't be bothered in the end, rather i sat there biting my lip and mentally composing an LJ rant...

This guy works in inclusion, as in in trying to make sure minority groups are able to access the same services as majority groups. Sometimes i think he forgets that the majority have rights too...

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

The funny thing about equality is, once people get it, they always find it's not all it's cracked up to be.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

hmm. I'm not sure i actually follow you here.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Well, if we're all equal, and you can't overtly mention Christmas, then he can't mention Hannukah either can he? So it's not really equality he wants, it's special privileges, he wants more rights that you, and he wants you to feel guilty for not giving them to him. You can bet if you did point this out he'd immediately accuse you of oppressing him...

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

it's not that he wants us not to overly mention christmas, he wants us to not exclude people that DON'T celebrate christmas by re-wording things to make things non-specific.

[camillastar.livejournal.com]

I'm going to tell Yusuf right now that I'm offended that he bought Christmas cards this year with the words 'Merry Christmas' on them. What was he thinking?

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

hahaha :D