…for bitterness and snark on EN:


tishy: if i hear one more person pointedly and snottily reply "Merry
Christmas" when someone says :Happy Holidays", I may be forced to
convert myself
Vanyel: I always respond "Happy Chanukah"
tishy: that's really starting to bug me, and even as a non-practicing
christian it makes me feel ashamed to be even loosely associated
with them
marcie: i bet
marcie: there are at least 3 other winter holidays widely celebrated in this
country
cerby: I've started responding with "happy lemming-like blately
consumer-guilt driven time of year"
Vanyel: I'll show you a fucking war on christmas
Vanyel: when santa claus gets shot on his sled by anti aircraft fire
marcie: and with 82% of the country identifying as xian at the last census,
i don't get why some xians are so fucking threatened by that fact
cerby: err, consumerism
Vanyel: THEN its a fucking war on christmas
marcie: ahahah
marcie: kwanzaa, hanukkah, and solstice are not going to dismantle the xmas
machine as we know it
marcie: more's the pity
Vanyel: THATS what I should answer
tishy: my mom actually sent me a link to some conservative's rant about the
"Merry Christmas" thing, and he said something to the effect of "90%
of Americans celebrate Christmas"
Vanyel: HAPPY SOLSTICE
tishy: i have a hard time believing that one
marcie: there is nothing worse than an oppressive majority that thinks it's
a repressed minority
tishy: and even if 90% do celebrate it, a significant portion of those
don't celebrate it as a religious holiday
marcie: exactly
Vanyel: if you want to know what a repressed minority is, go visit
christians in Iraq.