Most/least favorite holiday and why?

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Anonymous wrote:Least favorite is 4th of July. Just seems wrong to celebrate independence as a nation when it was really only independence for white people. Black peoples were still kept as slaves. I struggle with this every year. My favorite is Christmas, the joy of Santa for my kid, Christmas Eve church service, seeing the lights, all of it.

we already celebrate juneteenth

Yeah, it’s been a federal holiday for like 20 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused by the idea of "most favorite." Favorite is favorite. No need to preface with "most."

It's a term of art question - What's your most vs least favorite?

Rather than asking:

What is your favorite holiday, and which do you hate the most?

You could just say "what is your favorite and least favorite holiday?"

Or the pedants could just cope.

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Anonymous wrote:Least favorite: Juneteenth. It's divisive and it celebrates a state-level event (in Texas).

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Anonymous wrote:Love Halloween and Christmas, pretty much equally.

Hate Thanksgiving. I can be, and am, thankful for my blessings all year. Eating too much heavy, not particularly good food that you’d never eat otherwise and then sitting around staring at extended family all day is highly overrated.

last year I ordered from Carnegie deli for thanksgiving, this year is Katz's. realized I don't really like thanksgiving food all that much and forcing myself to eat it defeated the purpose of the day.

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Anonymous wrote:Love Halloween and Christmas, pretty much equally.

Hate Thanksgiving. I can be, and am, thankful for my blessings all year. Eating too much heavy, not particularly good food that you’d never eat otherwise and then sitting around staring at extended family all day is highly overrated.

last year I ordered from Carnegie deli for thanksgiving, this year is Katz's. realized I don't really like thanksgiving food all that much and forcing myself to eat it defeated the purpose of the day.

I never make traditional Thanksgiving food because no one in my family likes it. It’s now a great excuse to make different types of food every year.

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Anonymous wrote:Least favorite: Juneteenth. It's divisive and it celebrates a state-level event (in Texas).

and July 4th celebrating white people bring independent from England while black people were slaves? That’s not decisive?

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New Years, hate it! Favorites, Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. Followed closely behind by Christmas Day. We won’t even do lots of gifts just big family gatherings, decorations and music!

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Anonymous wrote:Least favorite: Juneteenth. It's divisive and it celebrates a state-level event (in Texas).

Well should California not celebrate July 4th? The vast majority of states weren't around in 1776.

And it's only divisive if you are racist or a slavery-denier.

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Anonymous wrote:New Years, hate it! Favorites, Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. Followed closely behind by Christmas Day. We won’t even do lots of gifts just big family gatherings, decorations and music!

I agree with this one

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I love Halloween! I especially love now how everyone is getting so into the full house decorations for the month of October - just so fun and festive, and extends the joy. Same is true for me with Christmas decorations - I so love the lights and festivities surrounding the actual holiday itself.

Thanksgiving is probably my least favorite, but that's mostly because I've lived away from close family my entire adult life. I love the way posters have described the day, but that's never really been my experience. My poor kids were just lamenting the fact that we have noone to share Thanksgiving with this year - they're definitely of an age where they notice that.