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[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 day ago

If anything modern day santa is more of an invention of Coca-Cola than Christianity or Paganism.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Santa isn't red and white for no reason

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[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

It's always baffling how people can define something as unacceptable. Says who? You? Who are you to just make that decision so unilaterally?

You can have your opinion, but it's just that.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

And their opinion is that this is unacceptable and outrageous.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I guess. The way it's formulated purposefully removes them from the statement, though.

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[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago

Santa is pagan, they put that dude on cereal boxes.

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 days ago

What's more infuriating is that they immediately gave in and removed it without any discussion

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[-] 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 248 points 2 days ago

Christmas is no longer a holiday that honors the Christian god, it's a holiday that honors the god of capitalism, money.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Cool, so it's still worth eschewing /s

I would like to note though that xmas is a very sore time of year for a lot of people (mostly queer, but others too) who do not have a good relationship with their family

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 44 points 2 days ago

That's why I think it's important that we bring Christmas back to its true religious roots: Fertility, hunting, and maybe a cult of the dead.

Well, that and I just kind of want to piss off all of my pearl clutching relatives.

But seriously, thank you for the reminder that this can be a particularly hard season.

I hope your solstice is marked by good times with real friends and chosen family.

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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I just use it to have a merry time with my family. Corporations try to co-opt everything; Christmas is no different. Is Pride about honoring greed and capitalism just because companies make everything rainbow? No, and neither is Christmas even though they try their best with that too. The only difference is buying gifts, but Christmas is about more than that, and homemade gifts are always an option.

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[-] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 2 days ago

Wait till they see the vlc logo during christmas ...

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 2 days ago
[-] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 2 days ago

If I remember correctly it switches to this logo during christmas

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 15 points 1 day ago

Anyone else get the urge to pull the hat down?

[-] josefo@leminal.space 82 points 2 days ago

What religious symbol? Saint Nicholas had nothing to do with the fat guy dressed in red that coca cola made up. The hat is fine goddammit

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 33 points 2 days ago

Isn't capitalism a religion?

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Cult of the line must go up

[-] josefo@leminal.space 8 points 2 days ago
[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Haha you're not wrong

[-] geogle@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Well, they took inspiration from Clement Clarke Moore's (1922) "Twas the night before Christmas" and illustrations from Thomas Nast (1881) showing him in red with the sack over his shoulder. Certainly, Coca Cola has solidified the modern image with their ad campaign though starting in 1931. Src

[-] josefo@leminal.space 7 points 2 days ago

TIL coca cola didn't create it, ty

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[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 115 points 2 days ago

And spawned an even longer shit fit.

Some people just want to be offended and we should simply let them.

[-] Ansis100@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Love the fact that this spawned new issues complaining about the debugger icon promoting violence against insects.

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[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 60 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wait, did I read that correctly and they replaced the hat with a snowflake?? Hahahaha

And yes, people often forget that generally offense is taken. When it's intentionally given, it's pretty clear.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 103 points 2 days ago

I'm from Australia and snowflakes during December is hemispherist and offensive to us down under.

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 days ago

We can replace it with an emu.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 41 points 2 days ago

No, that brings painful war flashbacks.

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[-] 0x0@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago

they replaced the hat with a snowflake?

As someone from the global south i find the snowflake in winter offensive!

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[-] LePoisson@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

Jesus Christ what is wrong with people... Microsoft giving in to a clear troll, surprised they didn't just lock and ignore that shit and move on.

[-] BangersAndMash@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Jesus Christ is not my Lord and saviour. I demand you delete this post immediately and apologise. This is as insulting to me as pineapple on a pizza

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[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago

I hope they never walk past a church…

[-] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 57 points 2 days ago

Christmas is religion yes, but Santa doesn't really have anything to do with religion other than being on Christmas right?

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 41 points 2 days ago

Yea, Santa is the more secular icon. There are even Christians that take issue with the Santa character (which is a combination of "Pagan" and Christian mythos). I put Pagan in quotes, as that's a Christian term for certain non-Christian beliefs.

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[-] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago

Sing along kids! Mr. Ghosty the Christmas troll...

[-] SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

omg this is the person who deleted all their files on accident lol

edit: nevermind

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 55 points 2 days ago

ghost is just GitHub's way of saying deleted user.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I don’t think an actual Jew would equate a religious symbol with a swastika

But I do agree that religious imagery should never be in public

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

Or equate a santa hat to a religious symbol.

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't think Santa = swastika but it is super tiresome when Halloween ends and suddenly there's Christmas shit everywhere. I know it's more a factor of capitalism than Christianity, but it even infects the meager Hanukkah end caps we get. There's frequently products being sold that are clearly just Christmas goods painted blue and white (argh) paraded around as Hanukkah goods. Fuckin blue and white pine tree tchotchkes? C'mon what the fuck is that? Hell, one year I saw "chocolate Maccabes" which were literally just chocolate Santa candies in a different foil.

It's all expected, it happens every year (though the holiday seems to take up more of the calendar each year), but damn is it tiresome. And don't get me started on the music!

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is nothing new, people expect religion not to be part of the "professional" environment. Dunno if VS code applies.

At the office (big corp) they don't call it the "Christmas Party", it's "the holiday party". They put lights and stuff up but no more Christmas trees/stars etc.. not everyone celebrates christmas so that's fine by me. If Microsoft wants to put a little santa hat on their product that's fine by me too. If I was using some service based in Mexico and they put a little hat on a product for cinco de mayo i wouldn't care. Christmas has other implications so it might be different, dunno

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