Current Affairs Christmas is cancelled part 76 - The revenge of the WOKE

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I heard that they can arrest you for saying Christmas in some parts of London.

I was put in jail overnight for wearing a pair of Novelty Reindeer Antlers. Public order offence apparently. Werent bothered I was v drunk at a Christmas party. Ffs.

 

[Yarrgh]

I was put in jail overnight for wearing a pair of Novelty Reindeer Antlers. Public order offence apparently. Werent bothered I was v drunk at a Christmas party. Ffs.

Disgusting. Can't even wear a pair of reindeer antlers.

I blame the Labour government of 12 years ago, students with no real life experience believing things should be fair, and immigrants. Bleeding wokeism gone mental.

 

[TheWinslowBoy]

I heard that they can arrest you for saying Christmas in some parts of London.

These days.

 

[Prevenger17]

Absolutely SICK of the fact that this Christmas, I can't say or write Happy Christmas or Merry Christmas and that Christmas is now called happy inclusive holidays instead of the banned word Christmas.

 

[COYBL25]

Has anyone seriously ever been told they can’t say Happy Christmas? Manufactured outrage

Only on the North Cheshire Spiritualists Forum.

 

[Yarrgh]

Only on the North Cheshire Spiritualists Forum.

I've just been on thirdeyeopen.com and can confirm that they've been told WOKE cancel culture has been imposed on them by a shady cabal of metropolitan elites who want a new world order to ensure that we don't increase our inner vibrational frequency and break free of the matrix.

 

[jaspercabbage]

Birmingham City Council banned the word Christmas years ago when they introduced "Winterval", although all the publicity for "Winterval" admittedly contained the word Christmas.

These are probably the same woke brigade who don't like migrants drowning.

And don't get me started about Cadbury's (Woke Quakers themselves who are basically Isis) calling Easter Eggs "Chocolate Eggs" these days.

It's as if Jesus didn't die and come back to life after being dead in a cave for three days for us.

They didn't ban the word Christmas at all. Total lies which the daily mail had to backtrack from although they still repeat the lie every year.

From wikipedia

1997​

The name "Winterval" was a portmanteau of winter and festival, coined by the Council's Head of Events, Mike Chubb.[3] In October 2008 he explained:[3]

Quite simply, as head of events at that time, we needed a vehicle which could cover the marketing of a whole season of events... Diwali (the Festival of Lights), Christmas Lights switch-on, BBC Children in Need, Aston Hall by Candlelight, Chinese New Year, New Year's Eve, etc. Also, a season that included theatre shows, an open-air ice-rink, the Frankfurt Open-air Christmas Market and the Christmas seasonal retail offer. Christmas—called Christmas!—and its celebration lay at the heart of Winterval. Political correctness was never the reasoning behind Winterval, but yes, it was intended to be inclusive—which is no bad thing to my mind—and a brand to which other initiatives could be developed as part of the Winterval offer, in order to sell the city at a time when all cities are competing against each other for the seasonal trade.

The programme of events in 1997 included theatre and arts events; marking of Diwali; candlelit tours of Aston Hall; an outdoor ice rink; a German-style Christmas market; Christmas lights in the streets; and a New Year's Eve Party.[1] The front cover of the promotional brochure used the word "Christmas" three times[1] and featured a photograph of the City's official Christmas tree.[1] Each of its six pages featured the word "Christmas" in text or images.[1]

1998​

The extended Winterval the following year included: Hallowe'en; Guy Fawkes Night; Diwali; Ramadan and Eid; Hanukkah; Advent, Christmas, and Boxing Day; New Year's Eve; and Chinese New Year.

Posters were displayed, advertising Christmas events, with the word "Christmas" in large type, and the "Winterval 98" logo only as a footnote.[4]

Church of England leaders in Birmingham criticised the 1998 "Winterval" concept. Mark Santer, then Bishop of Birmingham, said in a message to his parishes that he "laughed out loud" when he learned of the concept of Winterval, which he considered to be "a way of not talking about Christmas" and "a well-meaning attempt not to offend". He wondered whether Christianity had been censored.[5] The Archdeacon of Aston called it "a totally unnecessary example of political correctness to avoid sensitivities people simply do not have".[5] The council responded that "Christmas is the very heart of Winterval", saying that Christmas-themed events were prominent among those included in Winterval, and that Christmas-related words and symbols were prominent in its publicity material.[5] While the Winterval season was longer than the Christmas season, Christmas was the focus of the relevant portion of Winterval, and a statement from Birmingham Council explained:[2]

...there was a banner saying Merry Christmas across the front of the council house, Christmas lights, Christmas trees in the main civil squares, regular carol-singing sessions by school choirs, and the Lord Mayor sent a Christmas card with a traditional Christmas scene wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.

 

[LostLegend]

 

[TheWinslowBoy]

They didn't ban the word Christmas at all. Total lies which the daily mail had to backtrack from although they still repeat the lie every year.

From wikipedia

1997​

The name "Winterval" was a portmanteau of winter and festival, coined by the Council's Head of Events, Mike Chubb.[3] In October 2008 he explained:[3]


The programme of events in 1997 included theatre and arts events; marking of Diwali; candlelit tours of Aston Hall; an outdoor ice rink; a German-style Christmas market; Christmas lights in the streets; and a New Year's Eve Party.[1] The front cover of the promotional brochure used the word "Christmas" three times[1] and featured a photograph of the City's official Christmas tree.[1] Each of its six pages featured the word "Christmas" in text or images.[1]

1998​

The extended Winterval the following year included: Hallowe'en; Guy Fawkes Night; Diwali; Ramadan and Eid; Hanukkah; Advent, Christmas, and Boxing Day; New Year's Eve; and Chinese New Year.

Posters were displayed, advertising Christmas events, with the word "Christmas" in large type, and the "Winterval 98" logo only as a footnote.[4]

Church of England leaders in Birmingham criticised the 1998 "Winterval" concept. Mark Santer, then Bishop of Birmingham, said in a message to his parishes that he "laughed out loud" when he learned of the concept of Winterval, which he considered to be "a way of not talking about Christmas" and "a well-meaning attempt not to offend". He wondered whether Christianity had been censored.[5] The Archdeacon of Aston called it "a totally unnecessary example of political correctness to avoid sensitivities people simply do not have".[5] The council responded that "Christmas is the very heart of Winterval", saying that Christmas-themed events were prominent among those included in Winterval, and that Christmas-related words and symbols were prominent in its publicity material.[5] While the Winterval season was longer than the Christmas season, Christmas was the focus of the relevant portion of Winterval, and a statement from Birmingham Council explained:[2]

Yeah this was my point tbh.
But gammon are still banging on about it now.

 

[Buckers]

They only reasons I would like to see it replaced with an alternative festival based on debauchery and excess is that for lonely people they get their noses rubbed in it and everyone can get smashed on their own if they want to (more inclusive for the woke). But also and mainly because it would piss the Christian’s off. You can’t beat pissing a Christian off, so much fun and so easy.

 

[WA Toffee]

I was put in jail overnight for wearing a pair of Novelty Reindeer Antlers. Public order offence apparently. Werent bothered I was v drunk at a FESTIVE SEASON party. Ffs.

Fixed that to a more inclusive term ?

 

[Kurt.]

All white beards are banned in my town for the whole of December.

(Insert your own joke about women having to shave)

 

[spectateur]

All white beards are banned in my town for the whole of December.

(Insert your own joke about women having to shave)

Well, to borrow some words from a song by The Dubliners.
In all my days of traveling, a hundred miles and more, I never did see a woman with a white bush before.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

I saw them muslims stringing up one of santa's elves with tinsel on my way to work this morning.

 

[spectateur]

I saw them muslims stringing up one of santa's elves with tinsel on my way to work this morning.

They all love it. Buddhists Muslims Hindus the lot.
I went to Sri Lanka some years ago at this time. They called it the feast of santa Claus.
Red clad yo ho ho everywhere.