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radekas

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Aug 26, 2009
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Because, you know, there's a "War on Christmas." Supposedly people are offended by being wished Merry Christmas, supposedly... This is a large segment of Trump voters. Is this a problem in other countries? Immense horseshittery?
It's a problem in the whole "Western" civilization. Most of the politics who won elections in the last 2-3 years were doing this.
 

Enron

Tickle Me
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Oct 11, 2005
75,659
The amount of people who bitch about people being offended by the phrase "Merry Christmas" is the same as the amount of people who get offended by the phrase "Merry Christmas".
There are people who are offended if you say Happy Holidays too. Can't. Fucking. Win.
 

Post Ironic

Senior Member
Feb 9, 2013
42,253
The absolute craziest imo are fat apologists.

I sort of dislike that we're completely health obsessed these days, but those fuckers are insane.
The fat acceptance/body-positivity movement is completely fucked. Promoting being happy with morbid obesity is deranged and dangerous. And they've gone beyond the idea of just acceptance of being fat and positive about your body. They now have "healthy at every size" to suggest that the morbidly obese can even be healthy. They are as bad as the "flat-earthers" with their denials of science. They are trying to cherrypick data from various studies to make the claim that obesity isn't linked to health problems.
 

Seven

In bocca al lupo, Fabio.
Jun 25, 2003
39,318
The fat acceptance/body-positivity movement is completely fucked. Promoting being happy with morbid obesity is deranged and dangerous. And they've gone beyond the idea of just acceptance of being fat and positive about your body. They now have "healthy at every size" to suggest that the morbidly obese can even be healthy. They are as bad as the "flat-earthers" with their denials of science. They are trying to cherrypick data from various studies to make the claim that obesity isn't linked to health problems.
It's incredible. And it's annoying as fuck because they abuse a good idea, being okay with who you are, to avoid having to address their own shortcomings.
Yeah.. That kind of shit is just insane.
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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I say Merry Christmas and I'm not religious. I do like Christmas tho.

I feel like people who complain about either or need attention.
Not to offend all the non-Satanists, I don't tell kids "Happy Halloween" but rather "Happy Pagan Holiday" :pado:
 

X Æ A-12

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Sep 4, 2006
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I say Merry Christmas and I'm not religious. I do like Christmas tho.

I feel like people who complain about either or need attention.
that shit is mad annoying though. When I was in high school a lot of teachers would have small Christmas parties and everyone would bring food day before winter break instead of doing work and in my junior year some Jewish girl (who was already a hated cunt) complained to administration that it was offensive. Nobody was allowed to have a Christmas party and we got fliers telling us that we weren't even supposed to say Merry Christmas at school...

Its a school of 1300 people and 1299 of them don't get to do something fun cause she's miserable about life and could pull the jew card?

obviously its pretty unimportant in the big picture but still
 

Fr3sh

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Jul 12, 2011
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:rofl::rofl:
that shit is mad annoying though. When I was in high school a lot of teachers would have small Christmas parties and everyone would bring food day before winter break instead of doing work and in my junior year some Jewish girl (who was already a hated cunt) complained to administration that it was offensive. Nobody was allowed to have a Christmas party and we got fliers telling us that we weren't even supposed to say Merry Christmas at school...

Its a school of 1300 people and 1299 of them don't get to do something fun cause she's miserable about life and could pull the jew card?

obviously its pretty unimportant in the big picture but still
:lol:
I'm glad it ruined your Christmas :lol:
 

Zacheryah

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Aug 29, 2010
42,251
- Third wave feminism is shit-
- political correctness is shit
- progressive leftie democrats are shit
- body acceptence is shit
- Black Lives Matter is shit



Democrats really ruined america
 

Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
42,253
- Third wave feminism is shit-
- political correctness is shit
- progressive leftie democrats are shit
- body acceptence is shit
- Black Lives Matter is shit



Democrats really ruined america
Make America Great Again is shit
Trickle down economics is shit
Tea-party conservatism is shit
Evangelical Christianity is shit
Etc etc etc

Republicans really ruined America.

:p

But in all honesty Zach, overly simplistic way of looking at things. All those things you mention arose and gained traction as reactions to the socioeconomic climate of when they were born... And the things I mention generally arose as reactions as well. The problem is not inherent to those things, it's that people take those things too far, they lose perspective as soon as they gain a voice.

Reactionary politics and Partisanship ruined America. The inability of Americans to find common ground, a middle space.
 

Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
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How is it an issue to say merry Christmas? I mean some people want to complain for the heck of it, but be an actual issue? Sounds ridiculous, there's no other term like happy holidays here in Sweden, everyone says God Jul and just go about their business. But then again Sweden is fairly secular as heck, so less easily triggered Christmas wise.

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