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Just say whatever you want to say. The whole point of the holiday in the West seems to be something to lift people's spirits in the face of a depressingly shitty time of year. Our part of the world gets bone-chillingly cold and even the trees say, "Fuck it, I'm out." Everything is dead and it's so cold a person can literally die from just standing outside for too long. Every other animal with any sense just goes into hibernation and sleeps past this absolutely shit time of year. Instead, we created this holiday to help get us through this "most wonderful time of the year" and we have to constantly pump out happy cheery Christmas tunes to remind ourselves what a great time of year it is, but deep down we all know, Christmas and Winter fucking sucks.
That's the point of the meme. I generally try to tailor my season's greetings to the person I'm talking to, if I can tell they might have a preference. Someone standing in front of me with a Jesus is the reason for the season sweatshirt on? Probably gonna get "Merry Christmas". The goth kid that was in line in front of them? Probably getting "Happy Holidays".
Would the goth kid complain to my boss about what I say to the other person? Almost certainly not. Will the "Christmas" person complain because they overheard someone say "Happy Holidays"? It's quite likely. Do I care what either of them say to me? Nope.
That's the thing. We'd like to be able to say whatever seems right, but for some fucking reason, "some people" get up in arms and pretend like they can't say "Merry Christmas" when literally no one cares what greeting you use, except the same people complaining about what they "can't say".
Also, sidenote: the venn diagram for people who complain that they can't say "Merry Christmas" and the people who intentionally misgender people is damn near a perfect circle.
Fucking underrated. This comment needs more upvote.