What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?

[susanmcgee48176]

> 
> However, I was wished "Happy Holidays," not "Merry Christmas," at
> every store I shopped at this December, including Safeway, JC Penneys,
> Borders Books, Toys R Us, and Radio Shack. I don't know how many of
> these stores have actual policies on the subject, but the trend is
> unmistakeable.
> 
> Carol, who will look for more links when she has time but notes that a
> search for "war on Christmas" will generate plenty of results on both
> sides of the issue
>

Well, what I see is that people were used to being dominant, and their 
experience, culture and religion being dominant. The Jews, the 
atheists, the pagans, the Buddhists, etc. were supposed to stay 
invisible, like being invisible, and not upset the dominant paradigm.
It's like when the expectation began that men would do half the 
housework (if both parents in a mixed gender couple were working 
outside the home)...men didn't like it at all! Most of them didn't want 
to give up the privilege of being waited on (even if their spouse was 
working outside the home).

So, I guess it's hard for me to drudge up sympathy for folks who have 
to give up centuries of privilege.

And of course some are "fighting back." They're not fighting a war 
against Christmas or Christians, they're fighting people in the 
minority who would like to be visible, acknowledged, and not forced to 
participate in religious rituals that they don't believe in...

Susan