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It was sometime around June, I was in China and I heard Christmas music. I followed the sound down the street and around the corner and there was a large stage setup with all kinds of consumer goods and electronics and there were people on stage singing and and making some sort of announcements. There was a huge Banner in Chinese and also in English. The banner read Consumption Festival! 🤣

I get flashbacks from the war on Christmas. The battle for Baffin Bay on the march to the North Pole. That's where we lost my friend Johnny. He was boiled in Hot Chocolate by Corporal Candy Cane's army and he died for our right to say "Merry Christmas."

These days, my kids have no concept of a Christmas concert. If we are lucky, the school will put on a 30-minute “family sharing music show” on a Tuesday morning.

Maybe that has to do with schools being overburdened with larger class sizes, fewer staff, and tighter budgets due to governments cutting funding to the bone.

Maybe the article writer should to go volunteer for the school to save Christmas instead of crying about it and blaming everyone else.

Another classic from NatPo!

While we are ashamed of our cultural traditions, retailers are certainly not ashamed of milking cash from the desiccated corpse of Santa Claus. And so, by being cynical of a traditional Christmas, we have fashioned Christmas into something we should indeed feel cynical about.

NatPo came so close to making a progressive statement, but held back at the last second and blamed regular people instead.

Perhaps we can sneak it back onto the calendar

I wonder who doesn't know when the stat holiday for Christmas is. No need to put it back on the calendar when it's still there...

Throughout the whole article there are only anecdotal reasons why it should be restored. So many of them boil down to "it used to be like this so it should still be like this" too, which is just a silly argument. Maybe come up with some good reasons for it to stay by using a bit of critical thinking, NatPo.

The article could've been a nice little nostalgia trip too, but instead it finished off by saying all of the far-right talking points as though they had some relevance to the rest of the article.

It's the National Post. What did you expect from such a rag?

These right wing propagandist pearl clutching concern ttrolls are a fucking scourge on Canadian society.

If judged by their own book then these right wing propagandist pearl clutching concern trolls are also a fucking scourge on Christian society.

Christmas was long ago replaced with Santa’s Winter Festival. Very few people celebrate Advent and attend Mass on December 25.

I have to admit I haven’t bothered to read the article, but if all they’re doing is bemoaning that Winter Festival isn’t being called Christmas by some people, or that it IS but it isn’t the same festival they remember from some mythical past… then I haven’t missed anything.

Jesus died for our ~~sins~~ right to wish him a happy birthday!!

I sure wish "right wing propagandists" would stop posting their trash rag every where.

Oh wait...

This year we have seen more houses with Christmas lights and they went up in November, so doesn't seemed diminished.

ITS MERRY CHRISTMAS NOT HAPPY HOLIDAYS. LIKE AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE

ugh.