So they don’t even count as ethnically Jewish? Huh.
Oh for the days when men practiced boxing, shooting and fencing, carried sword canes, and settled arguments the biologically correct way. 
Guinastasia:
Who doesn’t count as ethnically Jewish?
I cannot tell you how often a polite gesture has ruined my religious observance. Something must be done about ‘those people’.
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Just out of curiosity, may I ask for one concrete example?
Sometimes I wonder how people like that would get on around here where we celebrate
Christmas
Hari Raya
Chinese New Year
Deepavali
as official state sanctioned holidays, in addition to Easter, and many companies will also celebrate Hungry Ghost Month…
Have her send out a retraction email, apologize to the guy for using a generic word and re-title it
IO SATAURNALIA FESTIVITIES and mention that they will not be torturing nor burning anybody in the amphitheater this year.
“Happy Holidays” and “Season’s Greetings” were being used when I was a child. Never in my life have I seen either used as a matter of pc. This is my 71st Christmas.
Some of the larger stores like Walmart ask their employees to say “Happy Holidays” just as a matter of inclusiveness. It doesn’t mean “Don’t have a Merry Christmas.”
To me it’s the difference in telling a woman that one of her feet is bigger than the other and, instead telling the same woman that one of her feet is smaller than the other.
I am a Christian who enjoys good wishes in any way that it’s said or implied. If I wish someone “Merry Christmas,” I would not appologize for saying it. I wouldn’t mind saying that I’m sorry the other person was offended by my good wishes.
My usual signature (author unknown) is this:
“You may take the expression “politically correct,” write it on a piece of paper, set it ablaze and place it far, far inside your sweetly rounded, cherubic bum.”
I am sick to death of hearing that expression, but that is my problem, not yours.
I wish you all merriness and light.
(Can I say that in the Pit?)
Was she “offended” or did she just not participate?
Why are you so hostile to the Jehovah’s Witness? What difference does it make to you whether she participates in the potluck or not? To say “you DO eat” shows that you have exactly zero understanding of how JW’s handle these things. I’m not exactly an expert myself, but having worked with a few and talked with them about it, I know that dealing with holidays in a work situation can be tricky for them. So cut them some slack and lay off the nastiness. The personal lives of your coworkers is none of your business.
I am generally in agreement with your post, well, other than your allowing such an insignificant issue to bend you so utterly out of shape. What I don’t understand is your suggestion that black people are as observant of Kwanzaa as Jewish people are of Chanukkah.
Is it your belief that enough black people celebrate Kwanzaa for it to be a major issue if it is not acknowledged? How many black people do you personally know who observe Kwanzaa? I don’t know any.
Sorry, I meant someone who converted to another religion – an apostate, as you said.
The OP provides the narrowest of anecdotes. Can anybody find a documented instance of an English speaker being offended by the word “Holiday”, one that is not based upon hearsay? After all, we haven’t seen the allegedly offending email and perhaps the OP hasn’t either. There’s a lot of third and fourth hand stuff operating. I’m not saying the story is impossible, but I think the OP would agree with me that it’s unlikely in a way. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be put out by it.
Guinastasia:
I think you’re referring to what someone else quoted as the Reform position.
All I ever said on the subject was (in response to Green Bean) that Orthodox Jews of all types have the same standard for considering someone to be Jewish. That standard does not exclude people who have converted to another religion (although apostates of that sort might be excluded from certain Jewish rituals).
Okay, I see.
Next year, send him his very own personal “happy go fvck yourself” message.
Ugh. I would hate to see the decorations for that celebration.
Damn you. Just… damn you.
That shit was funny.
The real question is whether this holiday is Hanukgiving or Thanksukkah.
Maybe he can’t - he doesn’t observe his diet, either.
Is it significant that the title of this thread isn’t Political Correctness ruining the US (or at least Christmas?) ?
Or is it possible that one can simply use “holidays” colloquially to refer to this time of year without having a political/PC agenda?