It's our favorite consumerist, political fight with family holiday of the year.
Nevertheless I hope you all have a good holiday. Here's to a new year of working class struggle.
I hate Christmas but I hope you all have a good one (I'm a centrist)
Merry christmas! I celebrated it yesterday, because here in Denmark we celebrate it the 24th.
I'm half Danish, and celebrate christmas with my Danish family
Krupskaya is in Denmark?? What? Isn't Krupskaya in the Netherlands?
Christmas is canceled this year. https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/november/bethlehem-christmas-cancelled-israel-gaza-jordan-christians.html
I understand why you’re saying this, but it still feels in extremely poor taste to post this underneath a Merry Christmas post.
Jesus is from Palestine. If he were alive today, he'd skip celebrating his birthday in solidarity with murdered children.
He would. But under a post about celebrating the holiday is hardly a place to bring that up. That’s probably the one place where the cruelty of the world could be put aside for a moment.
Imagine if someone wished someone else a Merry Christmas, and the response was “Palestinians are being bombed”. It’s not wrong, but it’s still out of place.
I have no idea how you can celebrate a holiday while the people in the land that started it are getting bombed. Palestinian Christians, as well as Christians in Jordan decided not to celebrate it this year. I feel guilty going to sleep knowing that I will wake up with a roof over my head, but to each their own.
I spend time with my family and loved ones by putting aside the stress and cruelty of the world to refocus on those in my life who mean an incredible amount to me.
What would having a roof over my head do anything to change the Palestinian cause? You can’t continuously self-flagilate, you will only ruin your own mental health.
Losing sleep and stressing today will only harm myself, and accomplish nothing. I spend all year educating myself, organizing, and doing everything I can to support those who need it (which for the past 2 months has been Palestine in particular), but there comes a time where one needs to disconnect and focus on their loved ones for a day.
Imagine if during the ISIS occupation and war in Syria, Iraq, and across the Muslim world, someone said, “How can you celebrate Eid al-Fitr? There are Muslims starving and dying, don’t you feel guilty you have food and a home?”
That would be bizarre and extremely disrespectful. There is a time and a place for everything.
“How can you celebrate Eid al-Fitr? There are Muslims starving and dying, don’t you feel guilty you have food and a home?”
You just exposed your lack of knowledge about Eid al-Fitr. Good job. "Zakat ul Fitr (also known as Fitrana) is a charitable donation of food that must be given before Eid prayer, before the end of the month of Ramadan, for the love of Allah. Zakat ul-Fitr is compulsory upon every self-supporting adult Muslim who has food in excess of their needs, on behalf of themselves and their dependants."
Anyways... You have been sus for a while, so I'm not going to engage with you ever again.
Yes, I am not Muslim, so I don’t fully understand Muslim holidays. Is that’s your gotcha? Really? I tried to think up a holiday in relative importance to Christmas to simply make a point. I’m not lecturing you.
I understand comrade, merry Christmas, there are millions who will celebrate today and you should celebrate with your family and such.
Salad has nothing to with the genocide, he did all he could, maybe you should ask your Arab brothers to cancel next Ramadan and Hajj just to show solidarity towards Gaza or atleast the Saudis will come to some sense.
doesn't christmas have literally nothing to do with christianity?
the traditions of christmas come from a time right after 40% of all honkies died, leaving almost 2x as much lumber available per person, so the average peasant stocked up twice as much for the winter and needed to put some of the trees inside and they eventually decorated them bc it looked nice
Not in the Middle East. Though people in Palestine used to celebrate another god's birth before Christianity. Birth of Dushara
It was around the winter solstice, but the date moved. Orthodox Churches in the Arab world such as the Coptic Church celebrate it in January.
