# It's "Merry Christmas," not "Happy Holidays."
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 2, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812 "2011-12-02T07:47:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
**Page:** 22
### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/421 "2011-12-07T04:02:05Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> my WAN here in the office bans a number of sites. stormfront is classified as a hate site. what is it, a message board whose members all have nicks that end with 00?
I’m sure there’s a wikipedia article on it. You claim to be clever. Look it up yourself.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/422 "2011-12-07T04:04:19Z")
a white supremacist named don black. HA!HA!HA! i’d rather be barry white.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/423 "2011-12-07T04:11:50Z")
You treat this casual racism as if it’s a joke. It’s not. I had friends in high school with n\*gger scrawled across their locker. We had a swastika painted on the newspaper box in from our home growing up. Remember the part about my parents being Holocaust survivors?
We lived in a middle-upper middle class town that was about half Jewish, and this crap still happened. Your chuckling and delight and amusement in racism today is absolutely mind boggling.
To you it’s somehow cute and delightful. To many of us we know how quickly society can turn and instead of protecting its citizens, prey on them. Chuckle away. It’s truly sad you don’t see what harm you cause with your lighthearted attitude and your passive (and at times overt) acceptance of real racism.
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### Author:  [@Mom-of-Andrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mom-of-Andrew)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/424 "2011-12-07T04:12:43Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#):
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> Au contraire, my friend. Grilled pineapple is NOM NOM NOM.
There is also a strong contingent of people backing pineapple as a pizza topping.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/425 "2011-12-07T04:14:33Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> While Jews do assimilate well, we’d like to keep our own identity as well.
> [@DocCathode](#):
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> Wait, there’s a Borg joke in there somewhere.
I used to be 12 of 31, but I bargained them down to 3 of 8.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/426 "2011-12-07T04:15:59Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> I used to be 12 of 31, but I bargained them down to 3 of 8.
This is going to end up being one of those things that haunts me for years to come, isn’t it?
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### Author:  [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/427 "2011-12-07T04:19:43Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> You treat this casual racism as if it’s a joke. It’s not. I had friends in high school with n\*gger scrawled across their locker. We had a swastika painted on the newspaper box in from our home growing up. Remember the part about my parents being Holocaust survivors?
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> We lived in a middle-upper middle class town that was about half Jewish, and this crap still happened. Your chuckling and delight and amusement in racism today is absolutely mind boggling.
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> To you it’s somehow cute and delightful. To many of us we know how quickly society can turn and instead of protecting its citizens, prey on them. Chuckle away. It’s truly sad you don’t see what harm you cause with your lighthearted attitude and your passive (and at times overt) acceptance of real racism.
It’s a joke to him because he IS a racist and anti-Semite. He finds it funny to denigrate people for their skin color or their belief system. That’s why he does it.
> [@Mom-of-Andrew](#):
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> There is also a strong contingent of people backing pineapple as a pizza topping.
Those people need medication.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/428 "2011-12-07T04:21:02Z")
all i ever wanted were my two front teeth. [mutter-mutter.]
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/429 "2011-12-07T04:21:58Z")
> [@Frank](#):
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> Suicide by mod, is all I can think.
Anti-semite pretending to be a troll, or a troll pretending to be an anti-semite?
First person to mention the late Earl Warren gets a knee in the beytsim.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/430 "2011-12-07T04:33:07Z")
oh, just a cheerful cockroach who can’t work the shift key…
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### Author:  [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/431 "2011-12-07T04:37:36Z")
You can say almost any holiday greetings you want to me just as long as you feed me pfeffernusse, candy canes and iced gingerbread.
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### Author:  [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/432 "2011-12-07T04:39:11Z")
> [@Mom-of-Andrew](#):
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> There is also a strong contingent of people backing pineapple as a pizza topping.
I concur. I’m not a huge fan of pizza, but when I do eat it, I prefer pineapple and Canadian bacon with green peppers and onion.
Pineapple is also delicious on skewers with teriyaki chicken, peppers and onions.
Pineapple upside down cake…meh. A little too sweet for me.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/433 "2011-12-07T04:40:45Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> oh, just a cheerful cockroach who can’t work the shift key…
archy is miles above you in terms of both intellect and charm.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/434 "2011-12-07T04:42:31Z")
well he is a journalist.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/435 "2011-12-07T06:02:07Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> a white supremacist named don black. HA!HA!HA! i’d rather be barry white.
You really are one sick fuck.
To the rest of you, have a Patrick Swayze Christmas!
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/436 "2011-12-07T06:36:15Z")
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