Thoughts on British university banning the word "Christmas" for its staff?

[Cubus]

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11532363/Brighton-University-urges-staff-not-say-Christmas-Christian-centric.html

[joeldalton]

lol, moronic. White Western countries are the only ones where they're guilted into erasing their own culture.

[12Volt]

Regardless of how much of history they erase, they're still going to want Christmas as a paid holiday.
They can change the name, but they still want the perk.

[joeldalton]

@12Volt bingo. And all the advantages afforded to them by living in a Western country.

[12Volt]

People are so stupid. Ask any little kid what the meaning of Christmas is. They'll say:
Snow
Santa
Reindeer
Presents
Candy
Family
Decorating the tree
sledding down the hill

Religion will be the very last thing to be mentioned. So yes, it really is all about white people hating themselves.

[joeldalton]

@12Volt My favorite is people catching themselves starting to say 'Christmas' then course correcting because they're so worried about offending imaginary people. And saying garbage "anyone have their holiday tree up"?

[12Volt]

That has me thinking...
Do these politically correct people still put up a tree and buy presents?

Why not do this in July? They can't say: "Because of tradition" because then you could ask them what tradition they're talking about. lol

[USLegionary]

The War on Christmas is in Britain too I see. Imagine banning Jews from Yom kupper or Muslims from Ramadan.

[Cubus]

Fun thing is that this paper does not ban using the word "Ramadan".

[OlderAndWiser]

Just another example of the UK saturation with woke politics.

[NamerOfStars]

A suggestion is not a ban. That doesn't make the reasoning any less stupid, though, especially since you don't become more "inclusive" by EXcluding things. If you were a Christian, would you be offended by someone wishing you a happy Hanukkah? A desire that your experiences be pleasant and joyful is not an insult.

[Guy13]

It does not matter how the world, flesh, or culture reacts to Christmas or Christ. It is always going to be a rub when one hears you were created by an Absolute authority and even your morality, thinking emotions, physicality and world where we live were intelligently designed by Him.

Guven these realities one must absolutely follow the Absolute Biblical laws.

[FunkyMonkee]

That's a huge load of bullshit.

[Guy13]

@FunkyMonkee Yiu prove my point 💪

how so…is it bullshit ⁉️

[FunkyMonkee]

Those are NOT realities! They are man-made bullshit fairy stories.

[Guy13]

@FunkyMonkee Read the Bible. All people are religious and worship something... and for you "There being Nothing" is what you worship. YOu are in a great need of both a savior and Lord. You know you are. I know you are. And I bet there are lots who know you are in need of a savior and lord. .

[FunkyMonkee]

I'm not! The bible is just a fairy story book. I've got better things to do with my time. The only tings I worship are records, music, love and good friendships. So far, the latter two are nearly impossible to find.

[Lucy68]

When I used to work in customer service I would say, "thank you and Merry Christmas and happy holidays". Now in the south, I was corrected numerous times by customers saying, "it's Merry Christmas no happy holidays".

[Cubus]

That's sad.

[FunkyMonkee]

They don't recognize New Years Day as a holiday?

[FunkyMonkee]

Why? It IS Christmas.

[Lucy68]

@FunkyMonkee I said happy holidays from the months of November to January cause you know Thanksgiving for example. But also we southerners do have Jewish people and Indians amd Asians, and some of them don't celebrate Christmas for example and Chinese New Year if im correct is a holiday. I said both Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays but was corrected and cursed out a couple of times

[Cubus]

@Lucy68 That's why multiculturalism is bad. It creates social conflicts.

[FunkyMonkee]

Sounds like a personal problem... for them! You did nothing wrong!

[Lucy68]

I mean in the south most of the Asians I know are Christians (i. e., our old pastor who was white, wife is Korean and his granddaughter who still attends our church is half Korean). And another lady at my church, her family is Chinese and they celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and Chinese New Year. And some places not only set up a Christmas tree but also a large menorah.

[Jamie05rhs]

@Lucy68 I agree with you. I take the same approach. The only thing I don't like is when people say you CAN'T say "Merry Christmas."

[FunkyMonkee]

Well, lemmie ask you this: if you walk out of a store and the doorman/woman says, "Happy Kwanzaa" or "Happy Hanukkah" to you, would YOU get pissed at them for it and stir shit or just keep walking and hardly think twice about it?
How about this: You go to Japan and are invited to someone's house for dinner. You walk in and they tell you to take off your shoes before coming in but, you refuse because it's not YOUR way of doing tings. Or, when you go to sit down to eat, they want you to sit on the floor and use chop sticks, but you refuse and demand to sit in a chair with a normal height table and use a fork, knife and spoon to eat. To them, you would seem VERY rude because that's the way things are done IN THEIR COUNTRY!, right? It's THEIR tradition!! Well, in AMERICA, we say, "Merry Christmas" and/or "Happy holidays". That's one of OUR traditions! If YOU want to be all-inclusive and expand it to include Kwanzaa and Hanukkah, that's COMPLETELY up to YOU!! THEY don't get to DEMAND that you use THEIR term anymore than you get to tell your Japanese friends that you wanna eat with a knife and fork! If you're the guest, it's best to observe THEIR way of doing things. That works BOTH ways!! The bulk of this country is not Jewish or African, therefore, they don't get to belittle YOU for not going by THEIR rules!! They SHOULD just ACCEPT your good wishes in the manor to which they were given and make their own adjustments in their own heads! If they were to start an argument with me about it, once the argument was done, as they were leaving, I'd say to them, "Merry Christmas!".

[Jamie05rhs]

@FunkyMonkee but the opinion you just shared is "white supremacy. Lol (sarcasm)

[FunkyMonkee]

@Jamie05rhs Does that mean I'm gonna lose my jingle bells?
Blacks love Christmas, too!!

[Jamie05rhs]

@FunkyMonkee Haha. Look, man. We normal people know that it's not about race. Because we're normal, and not mentally insane like the SJW crowd. I'm just pointing out their tendency to call everything they don't agree with "white supremacy."

[FunkyMonkee]

@Jamie05rhs Exactly! I'm not about to let a bunch of spoiled rotten, whiny little babies spoil what's left of MY Christmas! I'd tell SJW's to blow me but, I wouldn't want to risk catching their disease!!

[Jamie05rhs]

@FunkyMonkee Lol

[12Volt]

Let me guess... they're still going to get that day off as a paid holiday.

[Cubus]

Nope, because it's on Sunday.

[12Volt]

In America they get two weeks off for Christmas.

[SaoirseS]

It’s pretty clear from the article that it’s not a “ban.”

[Cubus]

Imagine if someone used that word.

[FunkyMonkee]

I would, repeatedly! Fuck `em, if they don''t like it!!

[jamesgoldman]

Liberal utopia within liberal utopia bans non liberal things

About as surprising as that playing dance dance revolution in a minefield is a bad idea

[bolverk]

It is what we in the UK have come to expect from places of 'Higher Learning' . They've always got to ape American Universities, its like they cannot think for themselves.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

I don't care. Christmas has nothing to do with the Bible nor Christianity, though I love Christmas.

[InsecureLivesMatter]

It's stupid, but Christmas is a Pagan holiday

[FunkyMonkee]

I'd say it as much as possible!

[Tanisha69]

The War on Christmas continues I see.

[greenice27]

Very wrong decision.

[Jamie05rhs]

That is so dumb.

[SmokinAces2000]

Don’t care