Why do people blame the liberal PC brigade for wanting to get rid of 'Merry Christmas' in favour of 'Happy Hol

Question

'Happy Holidays'
Surely, this is the ultimate expression of conservative, right wing, capitalist consumerism.
'Merry Christmas' excludes a lot of potential sales... from non-christians , who will also be celebrating Hannukah, or Eid or even just New Year.

ie, if you are selling cards you may sell 10 million 'christmas' cards - but you may sell 13 million cards if you change the greeting to something non-denominational

capitalists hate to miss a sale

so why is 'happy holidays' always blamed on the liberal PC brigade?

Answer 1

watever.

Answer 2

Because it usually is some do-gooder councillor who makes the decision for everyone to ban anything to do with Christmas, regardless of the fact that no non-Christians have made any formal objections and that Father Christmas and decorations have about as much to do with Jesus as the Queen's t!ts

The PC brigade are as bad as the health and safety brigade, they all need taking out and shooting! Kiddies playground, a vital part of a kid's development? Taken away due to health and safety reasons (closely linked to insurance in case some idiot of a parent sues because their little darling got a grazed knee from a bit of unpadded grass). Now teens and grown-ups can be struck down by a small cut which they would have got in a playground and thus helped build up their immune system. It's all just bollocks!

Answer 3

I would guess that, even if you are correct and the Merry Christmas-> Happy Holidays change was brought on by commercial interests, I would say that people are heartily sick and tired of the continual nonsense that comes from the PC brigade.
The Merry Christmas-> Happy Holidays change is so much like the rest of the PC rubbish so that's why people assume that PC is to blame.
In my opinion, PC *is* to blame.

Answer 4

I have no problem with 'Happy Holidays' or any other generic, sterilized concept but that being said, Christmas has been Christmas for generations. Don't expect the world to roll over and just forget a long established and respected tradition just because someone feels it should be remolded into a one-size-fits-all, cookie cutter holiday.

I grew up with Christmas and if you don't mind, I think I would like to keep it, thank you.

Have a nice day :)

Answer 5

It does smack a little of "controlling the masses".
I have always looked for, and had no problem in finding, cards carrying the simple message "Seasons Greetings" for friends who are non-believers and friends of different faiths.
This leaves me plenty of room to add my own appropriate wishes for December and the New Year. For me it has always been a time to keep in touch and catch up with any important events and, as someone has already commented, for many people it isn't a holiday; someone has to keep the ship on course.
Whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever faith or not you hold, as Dave Allen would have said "May your God go with you" and have a lovely, "that time of the year"

Answer 6

There is no move to replace Merry christmas with happy Holidays, the problem is that the USA has too much influence.
The problem is not real, it is just a few newspapers trying to sell copy.
Ask most Muslims and Hindus and they are not offended by Christmas.

Answer 7

the problem people have is that Britain is a CHRISTIAN nation, and as a Christian nation it should celebrate CHRISTMAS, not Eid or Hanukkah. at the end of the day if i moved to Saudi Arabia or Israel or Pakistan or India i would not expect the government to celebrate my festivals and i would accept that they want to celebrate theirs in peace i would never argue with them and suggest that i found it offencive!!!

i am all for multiculturalism but that doesn't mean that my celebration should be stopped!!! there are councils out there trying to remove the nativity scenes from the public displays, this is WRONG! if the Muslims, Jews, Hindus or bloody Jedi's want to put lights or decorations up i haven't got a problem with that, in fact i think it would be lovely but don't try to stop others from celebrating their faith!!!

Answer 8

Why don't we make ALL the holidays "holiday day" instead of identifying which one we are celebrating? The profits will go through the roof. That's all that matters, right? Who cares if Christmas is Christian and you aren't? It's all about YOUR money, correct? NOT!

I'm not following the idea that we should homogenize everybody's religious feelings just to give non-Christian leaders at Wal-mart more profit. That thought is anti-family, anti-American and anti-caring in general.

Screw big business. Up with faith in all its forms.

Answer 9

There are hundreds of different cards, birthday cards, for sister, brother, Mother, Dad, etc. Why change Christmas cards ? If some ones offended by that one, they can buy another one. I've seen virtually naked people pictured on some cards, so what, you don't have to buy them.
I think all the political parties have their politically correct brigade.

Answer 10

Because they are the people who watch every word they say and thing they do just in case there's the slightest possibility of offending a single person.As a supposedly Christian country,although why a country has to be any religion I don't know,it is Christmas time.If we were a Muslim country then it would be Eid time.

Answer 11

That would be false really, what about all the people who's jobs don't stop at this time, like emergancy medics, firefighters, and such, but "Merry Christmas" would still be nice for these people, even though they are not on holiday.