There’s nothing ‘inclusive’ about avoiding the word Christmas

Dec 6, 2021 by

By Rakib Ehsan, CapX:

It is that time of the year where we are told by the liberal-left commentariat that reservations over the policing of the term ‘Christmas’ are simply a figment of right-wing imagination. While it’s certainly the case that some of this stuff has been overblown (remember ‘Winterval’ anyone?), that doesn’t mean it’s not happening at all.

Indeed, there are clear recent cases of institutional efforts to marginalise the use of ‘Christmas’ in the name of ‘equality’, ‘diversity’, and ‘inclusion’. Plans for a public health campaign urging students not to ‘take Covid home for Christmas’ were vetoed by officials because, apparently, ‘the Government campaign needs to be inclusive and some religions don’t celebrate Christmas’.

We see the same absurd attempt at political correctness on the continent, where the European Commission developed internal communication guidelines that proposed substituting the phrase “Christmas period” with “holiday period”. The European Commissioner for Equality, Helena Dalli, said the draft proposals were designed to celebrate continental diversity and showcase the ‘inclusive nature of the European Commission’. These drafted guidelines were retracted by the Commission after robust interventions were made by Italian conservative politicians and The Vatican.

As with so much of the British and European cultural zeitgeist, the idea that we should substitute a perfectly inoffensive phrase with a bland ‘Happy Holidays’ or ‘Season’s Greetings’ feels very much like an American import – and one that doesn’t chime with British traditions in the slightest.

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See also:

After criticism, EU Equality Commission will review guidelines about avoiding Christmas language, from Evangelical Focus: A document published by the Equality Commission of the European Union calling to avoid using Christian terms has led to criticism.

The PC ‘war on Christmas’ is no right-wing mythby Patrick West, spiked

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