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Members claim National Trust has gone 'too woke' after launching charity calendar that excludes Christmas and Easter - but includes other religions' festivals
Perhaps a prime example of the reactionary "anti-woke" gammonry's eager propensity to leap on the slightest whiff of anything that they may be able to portray as evidence of having "gone woke" or the country's (questionable) status as "a christian country" being somehow undermined.
AS ever, it is nothing but lies and distortion.
It isn't a "charity calendar" and it hasn't been "launched". It's basically an internal memo distributed to NT staff and volunteers to enable them to keep track of the dates of the important religious festivals and holidays variously celebrated by the different faith communities that make up UK society in the 21st century. It doesn't include December the 25th or whatever date Easter falls on precisely *because* the UK is, at least nominally, "a christian country", because Xmas and Easter are the two biggest national public holidays in any year, and are already permanently calendared in, and celebrated, at every National Trust property, by default. There is simply no need to put them into an inclusivity calendar because they are *already* included, and everybody already knows about them.
In short, it is yet another pathetic attempt at shit-stirring., and a non-story that somehow seems to have taken in some of the gullible and hard-of-understanding. Which of course is entirely its purpose.
"The opportunity to serve our country: that is all we ask.” John Smith, May 11, 1994.