by exploited » Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:35 am
What is inconsiderate about it? That is why your argument fails. You've yet to demonstrate the link between wishing someone well using a culture-specific phrase, and the need for such phrases to be replaced with something neutral. How is it offensive? If it is not offensive, how is it inconsiderate?
Show your work.
Either referring to a religious or cultural event is offensive, or it's not. I don't give a shit if someone says Happy Hannukah or Merry Christmas, and neither do you, apparently. And yet it is somehow a problem for someone to say these things to other people who also don't share those beliefs.
What exactly is inconsiderate about it? It really shouldn't be hard to say specifically, since my position is so dull.
As far as I can tell, people are different, they have different beliefs, and a multicultural society should be more than able to accept that and appreciate a simple well-wishing, in whatever cultural form it has.
If assholes need to be pandered to in order to make a buck, fine. But that doesn't justify it in any sense other than monetary.