"Saying "Merry Christmas" or, if you want to be politically correct, "Season's Greetings", or "Happy f--kin' Holidays" if you like, is certainly not shoving Christmas down anybody's throat."

It is in my opinion.

and then this:

"It's an expression of hospitality and human warmth, something you seem to be sadly short of."

I disagree with that statement too. There is no law that says everyone must reply in kind to the expression of phony holiday sentiment, especially the person you are expressing it to has asked you not to do it.

There continues to be controversy over the public aspects of this holiday for a reason. A lot of us don't like being forced into enduring the phoniness, the superficiality, and the dominant culture shoving it's cultural traditions in our faces year after year when we want nothing to do with it.

You are perfectly entitled to your opinion SND, including your opinion of the ways you think everyone should be required to respond to Xmas celebrants forcing themselves upon non-celebrants by making "cheerful" holiday remarks. I don't know why you think that is. I work in a public school, and we don't put up with it. Sure there is a Secret Santa thing, but people CHOOSE to participate in it. We don't play holiday songs, wish people "happy holidays" because a good portion of our student population aren't celebrating a holiday at this time of year.

Now, you could just accept the fact you can't rudely shove your opinion down MY throat, but for some reason, you feel compelled to keep coming back at me, as if it will change my opinion. I assure you, it will not.

Now, I'm sure you, SND, like the other passsive aggressive trolls posting in this thread for the sole purpose of trying to antagonize l'il ole me, would just love to shove your opinion don't my throat and make me "take it".

So long as you behave like that, you'll get from me as good as you're giving.

So ho fucking ho ho to you too, you pathetic, sad little troll.