If your birthday is January 6th, how do you feel about it? Do you still celebrate?

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1. Nope. My family takes a bunch of sleeping pills and we all go to sleep right at 11:59 on Jan 5th. We sleep until 12:01 Jan 7th. That way we never consciously experience that day (which shall not be named) ever again.

2. Usually I celebrate on the nearest weekend instead of the actual date, easier to schedule.

3. Are you serious?

4. I know someone whose birthday is 9/11 and she celebrates it. She’s like “it’s not my fault, I didn’t choose to be born on this day and I had nothing to do with 9/11” which makes sense to me.

5. A few years after 9/11 the government transferred everyone who has that birthday to the 12th, I imagine they’ll do something similar soon.

6. Why would you not celebrate it?

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   Edit: It == Your birthday/anniversary

7. Yikes. It’s just another day. Okay. Something happened but that doesn’t tarnish that date forever.

8. If you are a Bears fan, your January 6th birthday is a painful reminder of the double doink.

9. Nobody outside the media gives a shit about Jan 6th

10. Why would I give a shit?

11. Why wouldn’t they celebrate?

12. As an immigrant family, we continue to be reminded weekly that 9/11 does not exist in this country by the immigration officers. 1/6 is referred to as the black out day, mentioning the date is punishable by 5 year in a maximum security prison for wrongspeak. United States is actually named United (Special) dates, in this country, you better learn your banned and deleted dates.

13. Surely you can’t be serious?

14. I don’t see why I wouldn’t celebrate my birthday because some idiots once did something stupid on that date.

15. Yes I do. Everyone’s lives don’t revolve around politics.

16. The United States no longer has January 6th, it is officially January 5½. /s

17. To give you an idea of how big a deal this isn’t, when I read this post, my first thought was, “What’s significant about January 6th? Why would anyone care about that?”

    And yeah, thinking about it I remembered it was the day a bunch of stupid Trump yahoos got arrested at the Capitol, but you’re greatly overestimating how important that day is to Americans. Nobody would be at all concerned about their birthday being that day.

18. I don’t know anyone in real life who even cares about January 6th

19. What? Why wouldn’t you celebrate it?

20. As a patriot, I celebrate in an even bigger way. Id own that shit 😀

21. Why would the anniversary of a group of idiots raiding the Capitol stop someone from celebrating their birthday?

    I’m sure every day of the year is the anniversary of some far worse event, whether known or unknown.

22. The actions that happened that day are an embarrassment, but it doesn’t carry the same weight as other events. It’s not the same as it was for people born December 7th or September 11th, at least a few years after. Also it seems like it’s always other people worried about those dates than people who actually have those birthdays.

23. Why?

24. I just realized reading this question that my mom’s birthday is January 6.

    Not to say that I don’t when her birthday is. Rather, I never connected the dates with anything other than my mom’s birthday.

25. Not really. Even if you consider January 6 to be a big deal, which not everyone does, plenty of other people have a birthday that corresponds with an anniversary of some historical signifi an edit, and not always a good one.
    One person I know was born April 14 their anniversary of both Lincoln being shot and the Titanic striking the iceberg (although the subsequent death and sinking did not happen until April 15). Another friend of mine was born on August 6, the anniversary of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima. My niece‘s birthday falls on the anniversary of one of the worst tornadoes in United States history.
    We still celebrate all of these birthdays.

26. Only idiots freak out over that day.

27. Lol?

28. Took me a moment to figure this out.

    Do you really think people were trying to overthrow the US Government that day?

    It was stupid angry people, winning stupid angry prizes.