About half of your statement about what the Walmart greeter does is actually about you.
Well, not me personally, but about the hypothetical person I used to make the argument.
I agree that if you believe marginalizing other faiths is okay then you are going to label "Season Greetings" as PC. And you are going to do that without bothering to question the greeter.
Sure, but what if the person is simply an atheist that recognizes that Christmas is a secular Federal holiday?
Are they marginalizing every faith or are they marginalizing none of them?
And it doesn't have to be because they want to marginalize other faiths, remember that you're arguing that it matters what you believe, it could just be because that's what they're used to and that's how they like to say it, despite the fact that they're an atheist who recognizes holidays.
Does it really matter
in-person what they believe? Isn't the point about whether the other person is offended or not? Isn't that the PC way? Isn't that
especially the case in a commercial marketing situation?
Should whether or not I'm going to offend someone really guide my
political decisions, though? Should it guide my forum-posting decisions? It's for sure if you consider them to be commercial, but we shouldn't have to sell our political or forum-posting ideas. We should be allowed to believe in what we stand for, and stand for what we believe in. Otherwise, you are, yourself, marginalizing another "faith" - scare quotes for the atheist holiday guys who'd say that
that doesn't count as a faith.
Where we're at; does it end up mattering if I was an atheist that believed in a secular Federal Christmas holiday and wanted to wish that people enjoyed it, or whether I was a religious bigot who was trying to marginalize other faiths?
Can't the punishment be the same? That I am urged to stop saying some thing to people that I'm used to saying, for instance?
For the Wal*Mart employee that, because PC, had to change his season's greeting to his local friend Bob, which ending up actually offending Bob, because WoC, well... Bob's offense doesn't get to count, 'cause he ain't PC. No? From a commercial perspective, it does actually count though; that's prolly why Wal*Mart changed their policy. From a political perspective, though, I'm not so sure.
That's some bullshit. You can't do that commercially. You can't allow for political correctness to control national decisions like that. Sure it works in the big ol' diverse cities where most people are strangers, but in the small towns where everyone knows each other, it's offensive to those people's cultures to make them change something that's familiar and innocuous because enough people are manufacturing political offense to cause an impact on their personal social experience.
Isn't that what being offensive is really about; how you make other people feel? If you really are PC, then shouldn't you care about offending the people that (mistakenly) believe in the War on Christmas? Is cracking jokes and making fun of them, and offending them further, really the PC thing to do?
How much is the left side perpetuating the WoC, and is the OP an example of it?
Did Charles M. Schulz write that? Is this really another instance of 'Charlie Brown always being right'?
Message 2
What about the Starbucks Red Cup thing?
Message 8 - You realize that was all click-bait, right?
What do
you think the distribution of people who clicked the bait looks like from Left to Right? Like, how much was pro-PC and anti-WoC people and how much was pro-WoC and anti-PC people? How far from half-and-half does the distribution fall, what kind of shape does it have?
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