I got a business email that was signed:
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Merry [COLOR=“Red”]CHRIST[/COLOR]mas
So someone still thinks its an issue.
Is there a “put the ‘mass’ back in Christmas” movement?
Blessed? BLESSED? Honestly, I would find that to be equally polarizing. And no, I am not being “a delicate snowflake”, I’m pointing out to dropzone that the term can be a bit Christ-laden.
I already got a third-hand missive on my facebook feed about this, except that the originator implied that it was an edict from the University administration, and then went on to complain about how stupid, etc the ‘libtards’ were.
The purpose, as far as I could tell, was to stir up animosity against ‘liberals’.
Reading the comments, including those from my own family, made me lose a little more faith in my fellow humans.
It’s simply referring to deep-voiced Brits named Brian.
Well, this is a time of great personal growth for me. Is that what you meant?
Wait, so now Christmas is inherently more “joyful” than any other holiday around this time of year?
We should ask Jewish people about the War on Hannukah, then.
Commanding people to be happy is a colonial imposition.
Or for the loners out there-Let’s put the “wrist” back in “Christmas”.
Sadly my Facebook feed is filled with relations posting “It’s Merry Christmas, not Happy Holidays! Repost if [del]you’re unthinking sheeple[/del] you agree!” text-on-picture memes. I just keep on scrollin’…
You forgot the part that goes “Sadly, 97% won’t repost this”.
Since this thread is nothing more than a platform to gently rant against liberal, ivory-tower snowflakes, I highly doubt your claim that you’d be “quite happy if the entire debate was over for good” is sincere.
Some guy at a university somewhere (and ooh goody, he teaches a namby-pamby liberal subject, which means you get some built in “scorn for the screeching lefties” points for this without even having to work for it) says, “hey, here are some options for making events more inclusive,” and you’ve decided that even making a suggestion about such a thing brands one an idiot, even though, of course, you think that Mr. Kessler should do whatever he wants around the holidays. I guess as long as he doesn’t share the ideas with delicate special snowflake Christians who just can’t comprehend what he’s saying without getting the Christmas vapors.
This barely deserves a response. Either you are serious, in which case your comprehension of what you’re actually talking about is criminally lacking, or you’re making a joke, in which case you are also being a mean-spirited, disingenuous dick about it.
If you wanted to make fun of people for bothering to even suggest (not mandate or require) ways to make December events more inclusive and less Christmas centered, you should have opened a pit thread, instead of hiding behind a veneer of friendliness and faux-humble confusion.
“and I already know who you are.”
I also perceive less petty fighting about this issue this year. Could be because of the larger scale pettiness in the wake of the election, just that I’ve tuned out the people (in media and web) who fight about it every year, or it’s just on its way to being resolved in harmony (the least likely reason 
).
But as for going from ‘Holiday’ to ‘year end’, that’s kind of natural once you reject as somehow prejudicial a focus on the thoroughly secularized but theoretically religious holiday Christmas in the West (Santa Claus as an explicitly religious symbol is a stretch IMO, that’s pretty far from ‘let us all pray to Jesus’ at public events :)), and/or assume a lot of people from ‘faith traditions’ other than Christianity and Judaism.
Because AFAIK ‘Happy Holidays’ originated in the US mainly to not be exclusive of Chanukkah, itself a holiday originally mainly emphasized by US Jews, not Jews worldwide as much. It wasn’t intended to appeal to Muslims of whom there were very few when I was kid in NY, but some of the very numerous Jewish people were offended by ‘Merry Christmas’. And at that time it was also less common (1960’s) for non/anti-religious people to feel they were being somehow oppressed if they had to hear any reference to religion however indirect, as in again for example the common extremely secularized version of Christmas.
But I can easily imagine that in a Muslim majority country ‘what holiday?’ would be a reasonable reaction, though ‘the holidays or our Christian and Jewish colleagues’ a reasonable response if they are numerous enough. Maybe I’m not ideological enough about this, but if a big chunk of a school or office staff has ‘holidays’ or even ‘Christmas’, I don’t see why it’s such an imposition on those who don’t to have group celebrations in a non-explicitly religious way. If only a few people have ‘holiday’s’ and everyone else doesn’t, it would be stranger.
“Bah - humbug!” works quite well, too. 
Am I the only one slightly amused that the Professor of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies at a predominately women’s university is a white male?
[sub]Is that reverse diversity? Reversity? Reversity University.[/sub]
Keep in mind that New Year’s Day is also a holiday at most US workplaces that occurs around the same time frame as the Holiday That Dare Not Speak Its Name. Could not one of the Holidays in “Happy Holidays” be assumed to include New Year’s Day?
Bah, Humbug! In Australia, which is considerably less Christian than the US, it’s simply not an issue. Almost everybody I know says “Merry Christmas!”, and nobody says “Happy Holidays!” That’s because for most of us the holiday has become completely secularised: it’s Santa Claus, Christmas trees, snowmen* and presents, with no sign of the Christ child in the symbolism. So those of us aware of the controversy in the US regard it with some amusement.
- Not real snowmen, when the temperature can reach 40† on Christmas Day.
† That’s 104 for the nonmetricated.
I have to agree that using snowflake and snowmen themes is an oppressive construct, not only for those from hot, humid climes, but also for northern native peoples who do not view snow as a joyous event, but something to be endured in the never-ending battle for survival.
If you can’t be all-inclusive, don’t celebrate at all.
You should get that biopsied.
BTW usage of “Happy Holidays” is by no means a “PC-era” liberal construct - as perthis recordingof a song from a musical written in 1942.
Having it become some sort of recent deliberate snub of the Christian majority by the liberal PC police is a retcon by the culture warriors.