So, the day is finally here. It’s Christmas (unless you are part of an old-calendar Orthodox parish).
In shopping-mall liturgy, today marked the end of Christmas — which began just before Halloween with the running of the first cable-TV holiday movies. If you are part of a congregation that is into things like Christian tradition (or Charles DIckens), then the season has just started. In a way, old-school Christmas is rather nice — since the advertising tsunami has passed by.
I realize that some people have been greeting friends and family with “Merry Christmas” — or “Happy Christmas,” for Brits — for weeks now. Others have been more careful and stuck with “Happy Holidays.” Some of us old-school folks waited, you know, until Christmas to start saying, “Merry Christmas.”
But is this choice actually POLITICAL, in this age in which everything can be interpreted as a statement against or in favor of you know what and you know who?
What about on Twitter? What language did you use?
Yes, it’s time for another Ryan Burge chart.
Is “Happy Holidays” more political than “Merry Christmas”? Is one more inherently religious?
Tweets that contain “Merry Christmas” are both more political AND more religious.
However, I have to note that just 2.5% of those tweets contain “God” and ~1% discuss President Trump. pic.twitter.com/ucIUwNTGrz
— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) December 24, 2019
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