thathonkey posted:

this is still a christmas tradition in my family is it not anyone else's?

Parallax Scroll posted:

whats a good christian coffee chain i can go to instead

thathonkey posted:

Blue Train posted:

red and green are christmas colors tho?

RVWinkle posted:

Purple is the color of our lord and savior, the king of kings. Red, white, and green are the colors on the Iranian flag. What side are you on?

momerath posted:

i'm asking the citizens of gbs to help me wage #waronchristmas

i heard the pagans used to gently caress and smoke heroin on christmas and now we're loving making GBS threads ourselves giving out costco socks and playstation network cards. whens the last time we beheaded a steer at the town square to appease boreas the bringer of northern wind

Melmac posted:

People really are losing their poo poo on Facebook and Twitter over this lmao

Here's the thing though:

Das Boo posted:

Russia needs to up and invade us already so we actually have something other than cartoons and paper cups to worry about.

ArbitraryC posted:

Previous iterations of their holiday cup had more blatantly christmas imagery on them, the switch to plain red was intentionally meant to distance themselves from this. The people who previously enjoyed cultural validation of their christian identity through the product they consumed are now upset that this is no longer the case.

Like I don't really agree with their complaint as I'm not christian and it's a huge cooporation of course it's going to go for mass appeal, but it doesn't take a genius to see what their beef is and it's kinda boring to see people act like they don't understand what the war on christmas people are upset about.

Profondo Rosso posted:

are real people somewhere actually mad about this

Obligatory Toast posted:

Apparently there's a campaign going around where people are using "MERRY CHRISTMAS" as a name to put on the cup. How well is that going to work out, honestly?

"Can I get a name for your cup?"
"Yeah, it's MERRY CHRISTMAS."

*Order is called*

*Cup reads "Mary Crispin"*

Parallax Scroll posted:

whats a good christian coffee chain i can go to instead

Melmac posted:

ArbitraryC posted:

It's largely the same style of complaint minority groups have about representation though, it's all about how validation in pop culture/media can make it feel like your identity is normal and catered to. It's just that rather than asking for more representation (like you might see racial minorities or lgbt people do) they're just scared about being put in the same situation those groups are currently fighting to get out of. It's honestly a very understandable thing to be upset about as you can sorta see year by year how they're losing their cultural stranglehold on what is normal.

The counterargument imo isn't that they're just being weirdos but that in order for everyone to have that validation they're afraid of losing there's gotta be some give to the present monopoly they do have, it's mostly an issue of perspective. I think a lot more progress could be made if instead of trying to phrase it like "no you don't deserve/need that validation" we should emphasize that "other people want to have the same stuff you got to take for granted to this point, you're going to have to make some sacrifices to live in a more equal and welcoming society".