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Seriously now - I know conservatards are fond of making this claim, but has it ever actually happened, anywhere, ever?
Saying 'Merry Christmas everybody' = OK
Forcing people who don't share your beliefs to participate in your religion's festivals = Not OK
See the difference? No, of course you can't.....
I've never seen any story about a kid ever being kicked out of school, or even getting in trouble, for saying Merry Christmas.
This is just one of those things fundies love to bring up over and over, and yet it has absolutely no base.
Oh come on now. I'm an atheist and even I say Merry Christmas. First off, I know lots of people who celebrate it. Second off, Christmas has been so commercialized that it is like saying Happy Halloween, no one ACTUALLY cares, except the people in this idiot's mind.
Ah, Christmas. 'Tis the season of paranoia. Better dig out your combat boots, HackerOnHacker, and prepare for another year of the "war on Christmas" bullshit.
Happy Holidays, HOH.
@Horsefeathers: I hope so, it's rapidly becoming one of the most entertaining holiday traditions!
(I nearly typo'd "rabidly becoming". That works too, TBH)
If you think saying "Merry Christmas" can get you into trouble, try saying "Happy Holidays" to a hate-filled, judgmental, holier-than-thou Christian fundie!
Yes, very nice HackerOnHacker. Now do another graph, similar to that, on 'What words can get you in trouble for saying in a British school'. I think you'll find it'd be red for 'the N-word', brown for 'the F-Word', yellow for the S-word', and 'Damn' wouldn't even register (although probably 'Bollocks' would show up as blue).
And 'Merry Christmas everyone' would show up as a negative on that chart (although saying it in June would result in a few funny looks).
Now go in the 'Naughty Corner', until you can figure out why .
tl;dr: Americentricism. It should be illegal.
When I was a kid in Georgia, through my elementary school years the teacher always started with a christianist prayer. I frequently got in trouble for not closing my eyes, giggling, etc., while the teacher invoked the name of Jay-sus.
Not that this is scientific, but I never saw that any effect of the prayer. I pretty much got the best grades in every class and some of the most earnest prayers got the worst grades. Apparently god grades on a curve.
And I really find it odd that the "N" word made it on this list. I mean, who the damn fucking shit uses that word any more? Except, obviously, the good folks at GraphJam.
Bull. Shit.
My high school actually had a poster near the front door which read, "In God We Trust," and there was even a Christian afterschool club, despite the fact that the rules suggested these blatant religious references shouldn't be allowed. And of course, we were supposed to say the pledge of allegiance everyday, which includes the line "one nation under God." I have no idea where all this "Omg Christianity is sooo oppressed in schools!" comes from.
Christmas is a secular holiday now anyway. Nearly everyone in my family is atheist, agnostic, or strongly antitheist, yet we all celebrate Christmas.
Sweet jeebus, this actually made it onto the front page of GraphJam? I've submitted, like, a dozen graphs to there and this is the kind of stuff they actually put on.
In my school, damn, shit, and fuck will get you a detention, nigger will get you expelled, and "Merry Christmas" will get you a "Thank you, and the same to you!"
I've never seen anybody get into any official trouble for saying "Merry Christmas" anywhere, sure once and a while you run into an overly politically correct tool but most people are just like "Thanks, Happy Holidays" even if they don't celebrate Christmas.
In my high school, words like "fuck" and "shit" got a scolding, I don't think anybody ever used the n-word in school, I'm in Canada, and in an area of the country where there are very few black people so there wasn't much reason for anybody to use the n-word, even if they were inclined to.
Wait...."Merry Christmas" warrants calling in the National Guard in the States?
Wow...and too think that here in Canada I've been YELLED at by customers for me not wishing them a Merry Christmas....of course I've been yelled at for saying it to so as a general rule I say "have a good one" unless they say Merry X-Mas first...but apparently I should be calling the cops for it...who knew?
Oh, fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. Go ahead and say, "Merry Christmas." No one will call the Guard. But keep saying shit like this and people will say, "What the fuck? How fucking stupid is this fucking stupid person? Really fucking stupid!"
I find this delightfully hilarious. Around here, saying Merry Christmas gets the reaction of either "merry christmas to you, too!" or "It's June. What have you been smoking?" See here in Southern Ontario we put being polite over being insane with so called political correctness
I find this delightfully hilarious. Around here, saying Merry Christmas gets the reaction of either "merry christmas to you, too!" or "It's June. What have you been smoking?" See here in Southern Ontario we put being polite over being insane with so called political correctness
Uh...I'm fairly certain that saying the N word will get you in far more trouble than "Merry Christmas". In fact, saying that word, especially in anger, may just get you killed.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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