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Its always been this way, but the vendors and business owners take the easy way out, so as not to offend anyone.
They dont care, the businesses just want to sell their goods and services without any distraction of labels and semantics.
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I agree it’s always been this way.
A couple of years ago, I was so annoyed with the Happy Holidays crap that when someone at the mall said Happy Holidays to me. I shouted “F*CK YOU A**HOLE, it’s MERRY CHRISTMAS” Amazingly after I boomed that, a bunch of people but not all said Merry Christmas.
Now, I am much more mellow and just retort Merry Christmas when someone says Happy Holidays.
Wow. You are certainly a Christian Road Warrior. I would never have used that language about Xmas, but people are different. I’m guessing you were much younger back then.
I would have thought about saying such when I was back in college, b/c I had more of a night life and private life back then, where people did express themselves that way.
Where I live now,(neighbor to many new immigrants) that kind of response will be seen as a direct confrontation.