No, Cadbury Hasn’t ‘Removed Easter’ From Easter Eggs.
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How does anyone live in the US or the UK as a Christian and manage to feel oppressed?
I say this as a Christian.
But then they think that the oppression is going to be something oblique and subtile? Which only shows a total lack of imagination or experience with religious oppression.
Which is happening now to Muslims and to Jewish people in both the US and UK.
Meanwhile I can start talking about Jesus at any moment and nobody cares.
@futurebird @afewbugs even more so in the UK where our church is an established church that the king is head of, couldn't be any less oppressed than that
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No, Cadbury Hasn’t ‘Removed Easter’ From Easter Eggs.
No one's removing the word "Easter" from packaging, chocolate eggs have nothing to do with Christianity in any case, and some very sinister groups are trying to convince us all that Muslims are offended by much loved British traditions and trying to get them banned.
No, Cadbury Hasn’t ‘Removed Easter’ From Easter Eggs
Chocolate eggs have never been consistently labelled with the word ‘Easter’, so why does this claim keep resurfacing?
(monkdebunks.substack.com)
@afewbugs We get to enjoy the same discussion for both easter and christmas in Germany. Seems a little uncreative... I thought they were against globalisation... Anyways, my favourite down to earth explanation in both cases is: If your supermarket is selling a hundred different brands of chocolate thingies with slight variations on shapes and fillings, you really don't want all of them to go under "Easter egg" in your system.
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@afewbugs 'Tis the season
@wav3ydave @afewbugs It is a bit annoying that this calendar is not properly updated every year.
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@catch56 @futurebird @afewbugs of course, in the UK, despite our King being head of the Church of England as well as head of state and Anglican bishops still voting in the House of Lords, as of our last census Christians are actually a (very much not persecuted) minority in England and Wales (46%) and those of no religion are a majority in Scotland (51%).
Time we disestablished the Church of |England.
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No, Cadbury Hasn’t ‘Removed Easter’ From Easter Eggs.
No one's removing the word "Easter" from packaging, chocolate eggs have nothing to do with Christianity in any case, and some very sinister groups are trying to convince us all that Muslims are offended by much loved British traditions and trying to get them banned.
No, Cadbury Hasn’t ‘Removed Easter’ From Easter Eggs
Chocolate eggs have never been consistently labelled with the word ‘Easter’, so why does this claim keep resurfacing?
(monkdebunks.substack.com)
@afewbugs Greggsnow doing Hot Crescent Buns
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It's pathetic really. Like wouldn't it be nice if we, in the UK, as a culture, were excited when new ideas and traditions come in instead of being scared and angry? Instead of inventing "You can't say Easter on eggs anymore" wouldn't it be nice if we went "Hey, these people have brought a festival where you can suddenly get really nice dates in pretty boxes and there are lovely shared suppers after dusk?"
It's like when the UK women's team did so well in the World Cup, and a bunch of miserable old gits started mithering on about how women's football wasn't real football. And meanwhile my Dad was delighted that now there was twice as much football on TV as there used to be. Not only was he not making a nuisance of himself whingeing on Facebook, he was actually happier. Almost like actually embracing something a bit new and a bit different is actually a nicer way to live.
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It's like when the UK women's team did so well in the World Cup, and a bunch of miserable old gits started mithering on about how women's football wasn't real football. And meanwhile my Dad was delighted that now there was twice as much football on TV as there used to be. Not only was he not making a nuisance of himself whingeing on Facebook, he was actually happier. Almost like actually embracing something a bit new and a bit different is actually a nicer way to live.
But the rightwing media does love telling people anything new and different is a threat. I know why they do it of course, it's to stop us paying attention to that fact we're getting dragged into a stupid war to appease a paedophile with dementia, but I wish people didn't fall for it so easily.
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It's like when the UK women's team did so well in the World Cup, and a bunch of miserable old gits started mithering on about how women's football wasn't real football. And meanwhile my Dad was delighted that now there was twice as much football on TV as there used to be. Not only was he not making a nuisance of himself whingeing on Facebook, he was actually happier. Almost like actually embracing something a bit new and a bit different is actually a nicer way to live.
@afewbugs That's exactly how my dad feels about the women's football. "Oh, good, more football on telly." Lovely to hear your dad's the same.
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No, Cadbury Hasn’t ‘Removed Easter’ From Easter Eggs.
No one's removing the word "Easter" from packaging, chocolate eggs have nothing to do with Christianity in any case, and some very sinister groups are trying to convince us all that Muslims are offended by much loved British traditions and trying to get them banned.
No, Cadbury Hasn’t ‘Removed Easter’ From Easter Eggs
Chocolate eggs have never been consistently labelled with the word ‘Easter’, so why does this claim keep resurfacing?
(monkdebunks.substack.com)
@afewbugs Oh god, not that one again. Seems to pop up every year. A bit like Christmas being banned and replaced with Winterval.
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But the rightwing media does love telling people anything new and different is a threat. I know why they do it of course, it's to stop us paying attention to that fact we're getting dragged into a stupid war to appease a paedophile with dementia, but I wish people didn't fall for it so easily.
It's like the uproar about Tesco replacing barcodes with QR codes, as if a change to the details of the stock management system used by a supermarket has any impact whatsoever on the lives of anyone who doesn't work in Tesco's logistics department. But suddenly some rightwing hack vomits up a thinkpiece about how QR codes are woke and suddenly everyone's waxing nostalgic about how the play of sunlight on the black and white stripes of a barcode takes them back to happy childhood afternoons shopping for salad cream and pickled eggs with their dear departed grandmother.
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It's like the uproar about Tesco replacing barcodes with QR codes, as if a change to the details of the stock management system used by a supermarket has any impact whatsoever on the lives of anyone who doesn't work in Tesco's logistics department. But suddenly some rightwing hack vomits up a thinkpiece about how QR codes are woke and suddenly everyone's waxing nostalgic about how the play of sunlight on the black and white stripes of a barcode takes them back to happy childhood afternoons shopping for salad cream and pickled eggs with their dear departed grandmother.
@afewbugs There's an uproar about that..? Do you have a link please? I know one of the people behind the new labels and I think he might be interested...
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@afewbugs That's exactly how my dad feels about the women's football. "Oh, good, more football on telly." Lovely to hear your dad's the same.
@astronomerritt during half time he once accidentally made himself a cup of tea using one of the quince teabags I left at theirs, said "This is quite good actually" and went back to the match with it, and I sat there thinking "This is the future liberals want"
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@astronomerritt during half time he once accidentally made himself a cup of tea using one of the quince teabags I left at theirs, said "This is quite good actually" and went back to the match with it, and I sat there thinking "This is the future liberals want"
@afewbugs Funny how much nicer life is for people who can simply accept change and difference, isn't it?
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It's like when the UK women's team did so well in the World Cup, and a bunch of miserable old gits started mithering on about how women's football wasn't real football. And meanwhile my Dad was delighted that now there was twice as much football on TV as there used to be. Not only was he not making a nuisance of himself whingeing on Facebook, he was actually happier. Almost like actually embracing something a bit new and a bit different is actually a nicer way to live.
@afewbugs I once had a train seat across from a table of white middle aged men who were chatting loudly and I was like "aw man here we go" but they got talking about women's football and all agreed that they preferred it to the men's because the quality of play was so much higher.
It's nice when people don't live down to stereotypes.
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@afewbugs There's an uproar about that..? Do you have a link please? I know one of the people behind the new labels and I think he might be interested...
@seabass I'll ask my wife, it was shared on a local Facebook group to massive outrage and she gave me a dramatic reading of the most ridiculous comments
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How does anyone live in the US or the UK as a Christian and manage to feel oppressed?
I say this as a Christian.
But then they think that the oppression is going to be something oblique and subtile? Which only shows a total lack of imagination or experience with religious oppression.
Which is happening now to Muslims and to Jewish people in both the US and UK.
Meanwhile I can start talking about Jesus at any moment and nobody cares.
@futurebird @afewbugs Projection, and I suspect some of that is appropriation directly from the Jewish community, at least in the US. I wonder at times if it was astroturfed in the US and exported to the UK via Murdoch media. I don’t think Christian oppression had been a dominant narrative for several centuries - except in missionary communities, which one will notice are a big deal in evangelicalism.
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@ravenbait @wav3ydave @afewbugs Very funny thing there... My LinkedIn feed looks a lot like my Fediverse feed, if very slightly more narrowly focused. Despite the majority of my LinkedIn connections being people I've worked with, what I see there are anti-genocide and anti-fascist posts, public health posts. Only rarely anything else.
Here I get to see more animals and crafts, more technology and geekiness. More general fun in addition to entirely reasonable reactions of horror. But a quick glance shows that the algorithm there isn't wildly far off of my self-selection here, despite the connections there being significantly more numerous.
I'm far happier here. I feel like I can be myself more.
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@afewbugs I once had a train seat across from a table of white middle aged men who were chatting loudly and I was like "aw man here we go" but they got talking about women's football and all agreed that they preferred it to the men's because the quality of play was so much higher.
It's nice when people don't live down to stereotypes.
@bright_helpings I had a similar experience in a previous job, working in an office of male engineers. One of them got talking about how he'd picked his wife up after a concert at the weekend, and they had agreed to meet in a pub near the venue. He got there early and only realised the pub was a gay bar. So he said he started worrying that gay men would see him on his own and flirt with him. And I was sitting there dreading what was coming next.
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No, Cadbury Hasn’t ‘Removed Easter’ From Easter Eggs.
No one's removing the word "Easter" from packaging, chocolate eggs have nothing to do with Christianity in any case, and some very sinister groups are trying to convince us all that Muslims are offended by much loved British traditions and trying to get them banned.
No, Cadbury Hasn’t ‘Removed Easter’ From Easter Eggs
Chocolate eggs have never been consistently labelled with the word ‘Easter’, so why does this claim keep resurfacing?
(monkdebunks.substack.com)
@afewbugs The other day one of my kids told me Ostara is when Spring returns, and Easter is when Jesus comes back as a bunny.
She's young enough that I really don't know if she was pulling my leg or not. Her delivery was straight. Anyway, I accepted her explanation as valid.
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@bright_helpings I had a similar experience in a previous job, working in an office of male engineers. One of them got talking about how he'd picked his wife up after a concert at the weekend, and they had agreed to meet in a pub near the venue. He got there early and only realised the pub was a gay bar. So he said he started worrying that gay men would see him on his own and flirt with him. And I was sitting there dreading what was coming next.
@bright_helpings but then he said that no one hit on him, and after a while he started feeling really self conscious and worrying he was ugly because no one had. So he started smiling at random men, and by the time his wife turned up one had come over and chatted to him so he felt better
