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The next person who tries to correct me when I say “Happy Holidays” is going to be told Happy Hanukkah instead. Very tired of hearing, “No, it’s MERRY CHRISTMAS.” I’m pretty sure Judaism was around a lot longer than your Buckstar’s boycotting butt, Karen.
My boss once shared a great story about that. This happened when he was in a layover in North Carolina back when the “War on Christmas” bullshit was first becoming prominent. He had gone to get a pack of cigarettes, and after he paid for it:
“Merry Christmas.”
“Happy holidays.”
“No. I said Merry Christmas.”
“Do you know what Hanukkah is about?”
“No, what?”
“Some people tried to make us worship their ways, so we rose up and killed them. Happy Hanukkah.”
@robininthelabyrinth
I Tweeted about this as it happened, but– I work in the office in the back room of a retail store, and this very morning a customer came in, an older woman, a regular. To the clerk behind the counter, she said, “More people are saying Merry Christmas this year. I like that!”
“Well,” said the clerk, a similarly older man who I happen to know celebrates Christmas, “you know, it’s a nice time of year.”
“I mean, what’s Happy Holidays really, anyway?” she went on. “Christmas is the original! If it weren’t for Christmas we wouldn’t be celebrating anything anyway, the rest are just kind of tacked-on, aren’t they?”
I stood up at my desk and yelled “IO SATURNALIA”, but both of them were too deaf to hear me, and I had too much to do to run out there and jeopardize a sale. (Not being Jewish myself, I sort of don’t like throwing Hanukkah at people, for fear of whipping up sentiment against Jews when I’m not one, y’know? Like, I’m happy to defend them, but I don’t want to get already-proven jerks mad at them if there’s an alternative.)
Fortunately, sparing me my rage-heart-attack, the clerk said, surprisingly mildly, “Well, ma’am, I mean, I don’t know much, but I think Hanukkah’s been around kind of a long time, actually, and there are other things that have kind of always been celebrated this time of year. I mean, the solstice is kind of. Stonehenge, you know? That’s pretty old, isn’t it?”
“Is that really older than Christmas?” the customer asked.
“I believe so, ma’am,” the clerk said.
“Well,” the customer said. “Well, I guess. You know, I don’t think I know anything about Hanukkah. Isn’t it like nine days long or something?”
“Eight, I think,” the clerk said. “I don’t know much either, but I do know that the Jews have been celebrating a lot of things for a very long time.”
“I suppose that’s true,” the customer said.
(Oh my god.)
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