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Originally Posted by Janszoon
I completely disagree with what you're saying about "Happy Holidays". It's not some new thing being foisted upon people, it's the name and chorus of an incredibly popular 70 year old song by Irving Berlin and has been a very common (some might even say traditional) Christmas and New Years greeting for decades. It's only since the late 90s that idiots like Bill O'Reilly have decided that it's some kind of PC thing that need to fly into a rage about.
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I think it's only appropriate to wish "Happy Holidays" if you don't know the person well enough to know what their religion association is, but that should only be plausible for maybe your mailman or something of the sort. Or maybe for atheists, I guess, depending on their preference.
I don't know, I probably will always celebrate Christmas, not because I give a **** about some guy who didn't exist, but because I enjoy giving other people gifts and baking ****loads of Yule related food.
But I agree with Moonlit in that it really causes a lot of cultural erasure, and having one generic holiday is pretty goddamn boring.