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Last year, while filing in to a holiday party, I overheard a woman grumbling about how much she dislikes having people in stores greet her with something neutral like "Happy Holidays."
"I let'em know!" she snarled. "It's Merry Christmas."
I didn't say anything. But how merry can you be with that chip on your shoulder? Look. There's no war against Christmas. There's just a mild movement toward... consideration. We aren't all Christians. We don't all celebrate the same things. So there may be some occasions where it makes sense to consider the possibility that the person you're addressing might not be a Merry Christmas person.
And the petulance directed at the Rhode Island governor who invited people to view a "holiday tree" seems especially over-wrought. It twinkles like a Christmas tree. It quacks like a Christmas tree. You got your Christmas tree. Calling it something else is mere politeness.
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