There’s a militant liberal woman in my car club. If anybody calls it “the Christmas” party she gets upset and lectures us that it’s “the holiday” party. Virtually everybody else calls it the Christmas party unless she’s around. It simply isn’t worth the political correctness lecture. (As far as I can see nobody likes this woman but there really isn’t any way to exclude her.)
At the two huge defense companies I’ve worked at in the last three years Merry Christmas was actually forbidden as “potentially offensive.” Anybody who is going to say it looked around to ensure nobody overheard. I know it sounds ridiculous. But I was lectured by the senior VP regarding a conversation the HR lady had overheard in the cafeteria on concealed carry. Apparently, the HR lady thought it was “potentially offensive.” This company had one of the most socially sterile environments I’ve ever experienced. It reminded me of something written by a German who had been in the Hitler Youth. “Every conversation was the same, ‘my, what a wonderful time we’re having here at camp.’ We were terrified of saying something that would get us in trouble.”
If “giving offense” is the HR gold standard then the majority being silenced needs to band together quietly and agree to be quite vocally offended, simultaneously. The good of the many and all that, lol.
And yes, I do realize that “offense” is a loaded word running down a one-way street, always away from the core pariah group of white, heterosexual Christian males as well as anyone or anything remotely associated with or sympathetic to that group.
It just lays the matter bare, regarding “offense.”
Your Post is good for describing my attitude.
If she got on me about “Merry Christmas” I would go out of my way to mention the “Merry Christmas” party to her every chance I got. I would ride her on it so hard she would leave, or shut up.
Merry Christmas! * grins!
Have an honest discussion with the wart, and tell her that behind her back, everyone calls it a Christmas party; that no one likes her; and she is painfully unaware of even the weather outside. Don’t surround yourself with toxic people. Someday you will wonder why you did.
There’s a militant liberal woman in my car club. If anybody calls it “the Christmas” party she gets upset and lectures us that it’s “the holiday” party.”
You can win the war without saying a word:
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Don’t cave. Be polite, but NEVER give an inch on your Christian beliefs. And don’t give a millimeter to those advocating secularism.
So after he made that remark, I turned to him and said slaughter? don't you think that term is better used for what we have done for the last 40 years to the tune of 50 million babies? America "slaughters" her babies, Oregonians "harvest" their trees!
Needless to say we got in our separate cars and never spoke to nor saw each other again. I gave up a paycheck and it felt really good!!