Woke Grinch Tries to Steal Our Christmas

'Happy Holidays' is Hate in the Guise of Inclusion

In the past, just like every other good liberal, I believed that people who wish others 'Happy Holidays' instead of 'Merry Christmas' genuinely cared of others and wanted to make everyone happy so no one would feel hurt and excluded during winter festive season. I still disagreed with it mind you, but at least I believed that intentions behind 'Happy holidays' were thoroughly benign, and only this particular way of expression of this benevolence sucked.

Yeah, same as before I believed that proponents of illegal immigration genuinely cared of the well-being of immigrants and failed to see dangers of illegal immigration due to their naivete, not malevolence. Oh my, it turned out it was ME who was so naive back then believing that fairy-tale...I gave those Woke people too much credit they did NOT deserve. 

Now, luckily, I wised up and believe this bullshit no longer. Now I know well that 'Happy Holidays' is NO MORE inclusive than 'Vagina owners', and NO MORE benevolent than forcing certain pronouns down on everyone. In fact, it is the same extremely toxic, divisive, and actually hateful and exclusive ideology which is behind all of those issues - radical and illiberal far Left ideology we came to know by the name of Wokeism. 

Why is 'Happy Holidays' not inclusive then? Well, the point is that under the pretext of 'including all other holidays' the Woke in fact attempt to cancel Christmas. Same as under the pretext of 'including trans and non-binary people' the Woke attempt to cancel women. Logic is simple - to force people NOT to use words 'woman' and 'Christmas', and more so to pretend that neither women nor Christmas even exist, but there are just 'holidays' and 'vagina owners'. This is what I call an effective EXCLUSION by the virtue of inclusion. 

Again, this type of 'inclusion' is wrong by default and is based upon logical fallacy. There is nothing wrong with dividing people into groups and subgroups. Trying to erase those categories, in the contrary, leads to countless problems. 

Eventually, according to the Woke logic, we'd be forced to use just a word 'human being' not to 'exclude' anyone. But wait, it's NOT INCLUSIVE to animals! 'Living beings' then? Not inclusive to plants and stones! Then what, just 'beings'? Oh my...This is a Woke 'inclusion' for you in action - everyone is just a 'being', and trying to be more specific inevitably 'excludes' someone (or something). 

I had analyzed it in such detail to show you the full absurdity of Woke 'inclusive' logic. Because this is exactly what the Woke are doing - they erase the word 'Christmas' and replace it with just 'holidays', erase the word 'women' and replace it with 'vagina owners', erase words 'mum' and 'dad' replacing them with just 'parent 1' and 'parent 2'...(and I'm saying this as an open gay man just in case!) In all of those cases, the Woke erase more specific word and replace it with more general one. With that logic, again, we soon would be forced to call everyone just 'being' not to 'exclude' anyone...

Again, I do not believe that specific words are 'exclusive'. They simply define some specific group of people, or some particular holiday. And specifics might be very important. Thus, if we want to address specific health problems biological women face, we should address just them and not biological men who 'feel' they're women. If we want to address questions specific more for gay men (like anal sex), we should address JUST GAY MEN, and NOT all LGBT+ community. And so on. 

Similarly with Christmas. Majority of us in our culture celebrate exactly Christmas, with a lot of specific symbols and atmosphere, and not just some random 'holidays'. To deprive us from the word Christmas essentially deprives us also from all the magical traditions which are associated with it. This is actually the next step the Woke are gonna take - to cancel Christmas trees and Christmas fairs because they 'exclude and offend Muslims', and so on. So it's pretty obvious that it's not just about the word 'Christmas'., but about canceling the whole Christmas celebration and replacing it with 'neutral' and 'inclusive' but MEANINGLESS holidays! Hence, the Wokesters indeed perform a function of Grinch in our society, trying to steal our Christmas. 

Grinch, however, tried to steal Christmas because he hated it. Well, so do Wokesters. They hate Christmas with all their heart. Only reasons for the Woke hate for Christmas and Grinch's hate differ. Grinch had a deep child trauma which actually redeemed him and his hate. The Woke do NOT have such a thing. Why do Woke hate Xmas then? 

Well, the Woke hate Christmas because they essentially hate ALL our Western culture and civilization (it's 'hateful and oppressive' for them and is built upon 'blood and suffer'), and Christmas is just a very powerful symbol of our civilization. Christmas combines BOTH our pagan and Christian roots joined with family values and 'capitalist consumerism' (which peaks on Christmas). So what could be a better target for the Woke hate? 

OK, it is clear now that Woke inclusion is actually an exclusion and a mere guise for the Woke hate. However, if we really wanted to be genuinely more inclusive towards people from other cultures with regards to Christmas, what could we do? Again, in my view, there is no need to cancel our biggest holiday and to replace with some neutral and random 'festive season'. In fact, there is no need to use those general and meaningless words 'Happy Holidays' at all!

Instead, if you meet people of particular religion/culture, greet them with the holiday THEY are celebrating!  Meet a Jew? Happy Hanukkah! Meet a Muslim? Happy Ramadan! Meet an atheist? Happy New Year! And so on. Now, THIS is what I call an actual inclusion and not a Woke cancelation.