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To: Lane3 who wrote (90585)12/14/2004 3:01:29 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 793717
 
Reasonable people can disagree about where the bullying line is. I asserted that cavalierly saying "Merry Christmas" to people not reasonably expected to be celebrants of that holiday is across the line. I'm prepared to debate and/or negotiate that, though, since drawing social lines is a collaborative process, or should be.

I don't think that any line is crossed by wishing people "Merry Christmas". I also don't think Christians should be offended by "Seasons Greetings", or "Happy Holidays", or "Happy Hanukah", or "Have a nice Kwanzaa" ect.

Many non-Christians celebrate Christmas and it is a national holiday but even if this was not the case I think it would be overly sensitive to be offended by Merry Christmas. OTOH if you know that a certain person is offended by "Merry Christmas", I can't think of any good reason to use the term to them. But the group of people who you know (or have a strong reason to suspect) would be offended is smaller then the group of "people not reasonably expected to be celebrants of that holiday". And while I would seek to avoid offense by not saying "Merry Christmas" directly to these people I don't think they can reasonably expect people to avoid using the phrase in their presence to third parties.

Tim
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