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In reply to the discussion: I got my first "Merry Christmas" said to me yesterday [View all]liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)you can tell if it is said with a kind of "fuck you" kind of tone. I never understood why Happy Holidays was so offensive. It includes Christmas as well as all the others. The insistance that Merry Christmas be the official seasonal greeting. It's as if they are saying that Christmas is the most important holiday, the dominant holiday. They don't want to acknowledge the fact that there are other holidays. That's not to say that you can't say Merry Christmas. Back before Fox News created this whole war on Christmas nonsense people use to say both Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays with true sincerity. When people use to say Merry Christmas to me I would say Merry Christmas back. But now there is an insistance that by goly Merry Christmas is the official seasonal greeting and don't you dare say Happy Holidays and vice versa.