It's Called "Christmas"

[genericman]

This past Friday was Pittsburgh's annual Light-Up Night event, a civic event that signifies the start of the holiday season - not the Christmas season, but the holiday season. As a man who was born and raised Jewish, I used to find it amusing when people tried to sanitize the holiday season so as to be inoffensive; now I'm more offended by it.

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[churlish]

I was at the mall *gasp* on Friday, and one of the major department stores earned my business (well, yes, they were having a fantastic sale, but what got me in the door was a cleanly decorated front window that read "Happiness is celebrating one holiday at a time") because while every other store in the place was already packed full of red, green, and plastic foliage, they weren't - and whatever persuasion of "Winter Holiday" anyone does or does not subscribe to, I refuse to gear up for one weeks before another as even commenced. That'd be like starting Valentine's Day after Thanksgiving.

[sorakirei]

One of the things that gets me about the whole we-can't-call-it-christmas-anymore thing is that even though they aren't calling it Christmas why is there red and green everywhere? Why are there so many special sales? I am very offended at how commercial the season has become, and that's not my christian side that's talking. I worry about retail workers. The mess they have to deal with and super extended work hours. It's terrible. I remember when the malls would close at regular time thru December except maybe one day. Now those poor people have to be open until 10pm almost every night and sometimes as late at 11. O_O Not right! /sigh Sorry shouldn't be ranting here.

Wow!

[akktri]

That's refreshing! I didn't know Jews had that opinion.