I just hope the very level headed decision by Microsoft to remove the imagery is going to be mistaken for their tacit approval of the link that dude shared.
It makes sense Microsoft did the thing and removed it, the linked article is … political af
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2024
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Wow I didn't expect so many religious people on Lemmy. Fuck christmas and every religious holiday. No special treatment for pale skins or anybody else. People are so indoctrinated into these rituals that they think it's "normal". Keep that bullshit out of my code please.
You don't have to be religious to think a fat dude in some red clothes that magically travels around the world giving out presents to good children isn't a fun yearly tradition. Frankly it's kind of an overdramatic reaction to a small red hat overlaid onto an icon. Should configuration be provided to disable the functionally? Sure I don't care, hell have it disabled by default I don't mind but it's stupid to make a huge stink about something so minor.
If anything modern day santa is more of an invention of Coca-Cola than Christianity or Paganism.
It's true that Christians have killed more people and commited more genocides, and are obsessed with putting their religion in everything... I think I'm on the side of this guy tbh
As an organisation they have historically been and continue to be, truly shitty.
But what are you using for sources here ?
Santa is pagan, they put that dude on cereal boxes.
It's always baffling how people can define something as unacceptable. Says who? You? Who are you to just make that decision so unilaterally?
You can have your opinion, but it's just that.
And their opinion is that this is unacceptable and outrageous.
What's more infuriating is that they immediately gave in and removed it without any discussion
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