There's an interesting nonchalance with which people will say outrageous things in public that betrays not only what they truly believe, but more importantly, the insulated professional and social environment they must inhabit within which such an outrageous statement is considered completely normal.

This statement consists of four sentences, every single one of which has something wrong with it.

"This is your annual reminder that not everyone celebrates Christmas!"

Who is this addressed to? If it's a genuine attempt to reach out to others, it fails utterly.

First, "this is your annual reminder," is the kind of thing an exhausted parent says who is tired of having to tell her children the same thing over and over again.

"For the millionth time!..."

Second, "not everyone celebrates Christmas."

Oh, sorry, forgot the extra dollop of condescension, the exclamation point!

"...not everyone celebrates Christmas!"

Now she really sounds like a screaming parent.

Here's the thing: Everyone knows that. Really, we do. It's not news to anybody that requires an announcement of any kind.

So who is the audience, who is she speaking to here?

I suspect the real audience is her nodding wokester followers all simultaneously patting themselves on their backs for their shared virtue.

"The default to 'Merry Christmas' as a normal greeting is also white supremacy at work."

This is yet another example of the intellectually lazy reflex of calling any element of mainstream American culture "white supremacy," but it's worse than most in the deep ignorance it betrays.

So why do we often "default" to a Christmas greeting? Maybe because 93% of all Americans celebrate Christmas?

Ninety-three percent of Americans in December 2019 report celebrating Christmas, in line with the level Gallup has recorded over the past quarter century.

And it gets even worse for Bokoff.

Fully 88% of black people and 92% of Hispanics celebrate Christmas, too.

That "Merry Christmas = white supremacy" talking point is not aging well and it's only been a couple of days.

"If someone celebrates, by all means."

The condescension runs strong in this one. "By all means," you have her permission.

Thank you Jen Bokoff, thank you.

"But so many people don't."

All 7%.

Depending on who I'm addressing, I do occasionally default to something more generic, because despite what Bokoff might think of the rest of us mouth breathers, we really are aware that "not everyone celebrates Christmas."

But there's a funny thing about that.

But not everyone was happy with the generic holiday greeting.... Paradoxically, a Gallup survey showed that 10 times the number of people were irritated by hearing the supposedly neutral "Happy Holidays" than by "Merry Christmas." And even millennial-subject-of-worship Barack Obama said "Merry Christmas" as president.

The vast majority of us, the ones who don't immerse ourselves in the culture of the perpetually aggrieved, try to be courteous to each other which also means being courteous to those whose intentions are good.

You can say whatever you like to me, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, or Happy Winter Solstice (and yes, I've gotten that last one). I'll take each as well-meaning.

I think that's the part people like Bokoff always miss. Courtesy is not a one-way street. Those of us who are emotionally well-adjusted and generally happy people are respectful enough of others to not go "Reeeeee!!" at every perceived social slight.

If you really want to take offense when someone offers you well wishes that do not perfectly comport to your entire belief system at that precise moment in time, it says nothing about them, and everything about you.

Speaking of which, Bokoff has since made her tweets private, the better to luxuriate in the affirmation of people like herself.