While we are ashamed of our cultural traditions, retailers are certainly not ashamed of milking cash from the desiccated corpse of Santa Claus. And so, by being cynical of a traditional Christmas, we have fashioned Christmas into something we should indeed feel cynical about.
NatPo came so close to making a progressive statement, but held back at the last second and blamed regular people instead.
Perhaps we can sneak it back onto the calendar
I wonder who doesn’t know when the stat holiday for Christmas is. No need to put it back on the calendar when it’s still there…
Throughout the whole article there are only anecdotal reasons why it should be restored. So many of them boil down to “it used to be like this so it should still be like this” too, which is just a silly argument. Maybe come up with some good reasons for it to stay by using a bit of critical thinking, NatPo.
The article could’ve been a nice little nostalgia trip too, but instead it finished off by saying all of the far-right talking points as though they had some relevance to the rest of the article.
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Another classic from NatPo!
NatPo came so close to making a progressive statement, but held back at the last second and blamed regular people instead.
I wonder who doesn’t know when the stat holiday for Christmas is. No need to put it back on the calendar when it’s still there…
Throughout the whole article there are only anecdotal reasons why it should be restored. So many of them boil down to “it used to be like this so it should still be like this” too, which is just a silly argument. Maybe come up with some good reasons for it to stay by using a bit of critical thinking, NatPo.
The article could’ve been a nice little nostalgia trip too, but instead it finished off by saying all of the far-right talking points as though they had some relevance to the rest of the article.