This seems like an effort to justify ignorance. Hanukkah is not christmas, yule, or kwanzaa. It is a minor festival celebrating that 1 day's worth of lamp oil lasted 8 days after a battle. That's it, nothing else. If it weren't for its prominence to the month-long commercial holiday of christmas, it would be pretty much unknown. It doesn't even usually overlap christmas day at all.
Yes, it becomes impossible to get stuff done in December due to the aggressive christmas marketing. Yes, visiting is done in December for some people because of this. But that doesn't mean everything in December is christmas. To say that is demeaning to everyone else's belief's and traditions, saying that only christmas matters. There's already a large element of this in American society, which is what makes "the Jewish christmas" not funny, because it's not "out of mouths of children" but instead "oh bother, here we go again."
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Date: 2007-12-26 04:16 pm (UTC)Yes, it becomes impossible to get stuff done in December due to the aggressive christmas marketing. Yes, visiting is done in December for some people because of this. But that doesn't mean everything in December is christmas. To say that is demeaning to everyone else's belief's and traditions, saying that only christmas matters. There's already a large element of this in American society, which is what makes "the Jewish christmas" not funny, because it's not "out of mouths of children" but instead "oh bother, here we go again."