How to have a PC Christmas...errr I mean holiday

[halfbreed]

What the--? Where do you live?? :/

[sass in a glass]

From the ACLU (btw I despise this group) themselves:

“Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.”

Yes, my friend who is a store clerk at the mall tells me when she bids good bye to each customer she has to say "Happy Holiday" so as not to offend some people. Otherwise she'll get the boot. No kidding.

Oh and I heard a rumour going on somewhere that in Australia (I don't know exactly which location), folks dressing up in Santa suits aren't allowed to say "Ho, Ho, Ho" but instead are forced to say "Ha, Ha, Ha", once again so uptight t***s won't get offended. So my fellow EA Aussies, clarification would do. Thank you.

[jericho]

Ethel, anyone who criticizes you on your lack of political correctness is violating your first amendment rights that guarantee unabridged freedom of speech, therefore are oppressing you and your beliefs and will be terrified to learn so if you remind them.

The United States is the WORST example for Political Correctness in the entire world.

And the whole 'Ho Ho Ho' thing? Santa has been doing that since God knows how long, why is it because of a ridiculous slang term that we have to change that to 'Ha Ha Ha'? It was on TV that some Shopping Centre Santa was fired for saying Ho Ho Ho, the vox in the street was example enough of how ridiculous that is.

Political Correctness is retarded.

wait...

Political Correctness is Developmentally Challenged.

If people are going to be offended by anything Christmas they should f**k off and go to work on December 25th.

[jericho]

Something for people to laugh at...

www.sideroad.com/Business_Communication/politically-correct-language.html

There's a few that are fair enough, but others that are just plain 'developmentally challenged'.

Does this mean that instead of saying 'Oh man!' when I am disappointed about something, I must now say 'Oh person!' when I am disappointed?

[jericho]

I fear the true meaning of Christmas was lost a long time ago, my family still acknowledges the birth of Christ, however the rest of the day is spent with family and loved ones. That's a good enough reason to celebrate Christmas, as long as we acknowledge its true meaning, I see no problem with all the commercial stuff.

[Pushnpull]

Reminds me of two Christmases ago when my then nurse manager informed me and my fellow nurses that we had to take down our christmas decorations because we were sure to offend. Nothing we did was overtly religious. Wreaths, Garland and a candy cane here and there. No nativity scene. Not an angel in site.

What was funny was the lobby in the hospital I worked at had this huge freaking Xmas tree! But on the floor my nurse manager was Scrooge.

It was the Jewish and Muslim doctors who asked where all the Christmas cheer was. I remember one of the Muslim residents said how our nursing station was the drabbiest one he'd seen and we should "put up a tree or something!"

Thankfully I now work at a place where everyone goes crazy decorating for Christmas.

[long]

Do you work in a Christian hospital? At my hospital there's decorations all over the place, and a nativity scene front and center in the ER.. I work in a Catholic hospital.

[cm]

I can't stand it

Christ-mas is only 2 syllables while Ho-li-day is 3 syllables.

How dare they make me use an extra syllable. It adds up ya know!

[jewbird]

In mainland China, it's state poilcy that Christmas be used to promote the economy.

[attilathehun513]

curlytop said:

^Corporate America is evil. If you piss them off they'll call their lawyers, who in turn will call Private Detectives (AKA Tall muscular goons who will stalk you till you have a heart attack). I wouldn't be surprised if they beat you up a little.

The same could also be said about anything we are doing on our computers which could potentially be monitored by the government or worst yet, the Federal Reserve. BTW, can you post pics on this forum?