Absolutely nobody is against Christmas. Even people who don't like Christmas are cool with others celebrating it. Like 90% of people who say "Happy Holidays" celebrate Christmas. But the right wing confuses inclusion of others with an attack on the majority.
To be fair, there’s are way too many people who freak out if you put your tree up “too soon” or take it down “too late” for their personal taste. These may be the same people who worry about who’s sleeping with who, while none of affects them.
I can't remember if this was said to me or if I overheard it. Maybe I'm fabricating the memory entirely, but in any case, I recall a conversation where someone said almost exactly what you did in that last sentence. The reply was of course
"Well someone always gets hurt."
"What do you mean?"
"It costs someone money to put those bathrooms in."
Wait, did they think the bathrooms were special and cost money? Many places just slap a paper “gender neutral” sign on their washrooms and call it a day until a nicer sign can come in. The really good places knew this shit ages ago and already saved themselves the trouble by putting in a shared sink area and having stalls with real doors. As someone who has literally had to fit washrooms into floor plans I can guarantee that if cost and ease were problems then we’d only have gender neutral washrooms.
She went to the kind of Uber wealthy private school you get to go to when your grandpa literally discovered the electron. Easy to say when two Nobel prize winners have funded your education and lifestyle.
Me, a liberal: "You need to understand that gender and ethnicity and religious tradition naturally divide us. But we can overcome all that with meritocracy. If we just stack rank everyone, we can skim the cream and anyone who works hard enough can join the professional class."
Also me, still a liberal: "Yeah, we're just firing all the women, the non-Europeans, and any out LGBTQ faculty member from the organization because we need to comply with new Anti-DEI rules. No, I don't see what that has to do with their economic position or social standing in society. Maybe they all should have just worked harder."
Recently saw that young people in the UK are more concerned with money and work than culture war. So I am glad it's just the media trying to push bullshit that people don't actually care about much.
Hard to reach any sort of inflection point like that with infighting. Crabs in a barrel will remain crabs in a barrel. People on Reddit legit trashing Cory Booker for saying the wrong things during a filibuster right now