Mall downplays Christmas decorations so as not to ‘offend’
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1sickbastard
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who will be offended
So what was your point in starting this thread, then?
Mall management, which charges anywhere from $24.99 to $59.99 for pictures with Santa, confirmed the change was made to avoid offending people, said Caren Toal, who was with Lovdahl.
“The people who answered the phone at the mall actually said, in order not to offend anyone, they were simplifying the Christmas display,” said Toal, who is also now boycotting the mall.
“The people who answered the phone at the mall actually said, in order not to offend anyone, they were simplifying the Christmas display,” said Toal, who is also now boycotting the mall.
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How much did the New York Post pay the mall for this picture of Santa?
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Feel free to lead by example.
Or learn how to manufacture outrage better. After all, the marketplace has become saturated with outrage. So saturated, it would seem, that no one is willing to give a fuck about the so-called war on Christmas.
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I think we should go back to the pre-Christian conquest practice of celebrating Yule not the Christ Mass.
Yule or Yuletide ("Yule time") is a religious festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples, later undergoing Christianised reformulation resulting in the now better known Christmastide. The earliest references to Yule are by way of indigenous Germanic month names Ærra Jéola (Before Yule) or Jiuli and Æftera Jéola (After Yule). Scholars have connected the celebration to the Wild Hunt, the god Odin and the pagan Anglo-Saxon Modranicht.
Terms with an etymological equivalent to Yule are used in the Nordic countries for Christmas with its religious rites, but also for the holidays of this season. Yule is also used to a lesser extent in English-speaking countries to refer to Christmas. Customs such as the Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar, Yule singing, and others stem from Yule. A number of Neopagans have introduced their own rites.
If some business decides not to put up Christmas decorations to attract a larger variety of customers that is free market capitalism.
If government offices put up Christmas decorations, where is the separation of church and state?
Call it Yule a celebration of family and the beginning of a long hard winter but keep the god crap out of it.
Yule or Yuletide ("Yule time") is a religious festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples, later undergoing Christianised reformulation resulting in the now better known Christmastide. The earliest references to Yule are by way of indigenous Germanic month names Ærra Jéola (Before Yule) or Jiuli and Æftera Jéola (After Yule). Scholars have connected the celebration to the Wild Hunt, the god Odin and the pagan Anglo-Saxon Modranicht.
Terms with an etymological equivalent to Yule are used in the Nordic countries for Christmas with its religious rites, but also for the holidays of this season. Yule is also used to a lesser extent in English-speaking countries to refer to Christmas. Customs such as the Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar, Yule singing, and others stem from Yule. A number of Neopagans have introduced their own rites.
If some business decides not to put up Christmas decorations to attract a larger variety of customers that is free market capitalism.
If government offices put up Christmas decorations, where is the separation of church and state?
Call it Yule a celebration of family and the beginning of a long hard winter but keep the god crap out of it.
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Christmas?
Fuck you, it's not even Thanksgiving yet.
Fuck you, it's not even Thanksgiving yet.
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Thanksgiving is done up here. Stores have Christ Mass decorations up the day after Hallowe'en.
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Just another holiday Christians stole from the Pagans. Christmas, Easter, worshipping on SUNday.
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It's marginally more interesting than the "I've nothing to say' thread which lately has too many posters saying way too fucking much!
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Considering we haven't had Thanksgiving yet, they better downplay Christmas.
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I like that! Good find!
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The only point is the under her hair.
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How does a diseased cock in your mouth prevent you from typing or spelling properly? I thought you would be well experienced enough to multi-task.
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Considering hardly anyone puts up public Kwanza or Ramadan (or Hanukkah for that matter) decorations in the US, much less merchandises those festivals to consumers, your point fails miserably.
