The anti-political correctness backlash

[feoh]

Originally published at Blind, Not Dumb. You can comment here or there.

Since when did “Happy Holidays” become persona non grata?

I realize that for many people, it is the epitome of bland political correctness - however for me, it’s what I want to say!

I don’t want to wish you a Merry Christmas, or a happy Channukah, or a blessed Ramadan, because I

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[lillibet]

Do you feel like it has? I use it occasionally--I'm more likely these days to say something (usually to store clerks) like "Hope you have a good holiday season!" simply because I try to sound unrote in those situations.

It's kind of funny--Slate has an article today about how the "War on Christmas" seems to be over--or at least the people who were supposedly feeling attacked are awfully quiet this year--and someone else on my f-list was getting crap from other Jews for not taking people to task for saying "Merry Christmas" and here you are saying that you're getting negative feedback for using "Happy Holidays". So maybe no one really cares and everyone's cranky because the holidays tend to do that to a lot of people.

[feoh]

In retrospect I think you're right, I hit a pocket of unusually cranky office workers :)