Current Events > Santa's post cards don't say Merry Christmas apparently, according to Google.

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It's one thing to say, "Oh well there's a lot of celebrations involved this season, Google should mention Happy Holidays or Seasons Greetings" --- (they most certainly did that in this case!)

But it's another thing to exclude the references of Christmas entirely, especially when involving a character associated with the Christmas holiday.
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You keep repeating misinformation and expecting us to swallow your crap. Stop it.
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Tbh i get if dey want to give secular greetings for it, but it's it's literally Santa Claus, it's really weird to leave out Merry Christmas.
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Kineth posted...

You keep repeating misinformation and expecting us to swallow your crap. Stop it.

What?

The only thing you've contributed to this topic is a regurgitation of "Who cares" and "Let me guess your also not a conservative"

You haven't presented any stance on the matter. The only thing I can conclude from your posts is that you know my observations are correct and you agree with Google.
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You should conclude that I think your argument is stupid and I'm not gonna lose brain cells engaging it.
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Kineth cares enough to keep posting but not enough to say why.
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It's really not that complicated. They do this Santa tracker thing every year for kids. Santa isn't something only Christian kids follow. He's a pretty big part of Western pop culture.

They're probably concerned that people will think they're stating themselves to be a Christian company if they said Merry Christmas unless they did something similar for all holidays. Which they can't really do with just Santa. It makes things more complicated for them. There's a plausible deniability if it's just about Santa and having Happy Holidays.
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Kineth posted...

You should conclude that I think your argument is stupid and I'm not gonna lose brain cells engaging it.

Gotcha. Save those precious brain cells for the BLM topics.
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Ok coffeebeanz
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Google will celebrate 800-year old Afghan botanists that no one has ever heard of, but they won't celebrate Easter or Christmas.


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Houston posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

Because they are all generic, far reaching statements. If you include Merry Christmas, you have to include the version for literally every holiday. Happy Holidays literally covers all of them.

Is Santa typically associated with other holiday traditions besides Christmas?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the stories I was read as a child regarding Santa was directly correlated with Christmas. He said Ho Ho, Merry Christmas. I don't remember him saying Ho Ho Happy Kwanza or whatever.

Here's the issue.

His appearance? You can thank Odin for that.
Leaving things out for him? Odin again.
His reindeer? Yep, Odin.
His trademark red suit? That one was actually Coca Cola in the 50's.

My point is that he might as well serve as a symbol for the holiday season since he's just an amalgamation of multiple different religious traditions, so saying he's Christian, despite having almost zero Christian influence, is stupid.

That doesn't change the fact that they don't have specific cards for each specific holiday, and instead using the generic 'Happy Holidays' to cover all of them. Again, no 'Happy Hannukah' or 'Happy Kwanza' or 'Happy Yule' or 'Happy Saturnalia' or anything like that. Stop acting like they are singling Christmas out just because they are treating it the exact same way the treated every other god damn holiday.

Not to go all "War on Christmas", but not having a Merry Christmas options for Santa cards is really weird.

Santa as we know him is pretty intimately tied with specifically the Christmas holiday. I mean, he's not exactly bringing presents to good Jewish boys and girls on Chanukah.
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imagine being surprised that Google will do something like this in 2018

they've been pretty clear with omitting "Easter" for a while, so this ain't nothing surprising considering their agenda
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CADE FOSTER posted...

alt right triggered by nothing once again

Does that really make you alt right to be triggered by this?
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Skye Reynolds posted...

I'm joking, but kinda not joking. I legit think the big boss has a subtle hate boner for Christianity.

Big Boss is Santa though.


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Hairistotle posted...

Oh my gosh who cares

Google cares a lot apparently.
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