Why is celebrating Christmas considered offensive nowadays?

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Well I can understand why a Jewish boss wouldn’t necessarily want a nativity scene Christmas decoration in his place of work.

That doesn’t mean Christmas is cancelled.

It's not considered offensive. Nobody considers it offensive to celebrate Christmas. Nobody cares if you celebrate Christmas.

It is kind of rude of you to impose your religious views on a public space though, especially without asking first.

I wouldn’t say it’s offensive and Christmas is obviously not canceled lol. It just doesn’t necessarily make sense to put up Christmas decorations if only a few people in a given shared space celebrate it. Boss sounds like they overreacted, to me, but idk what their tone was. The way I see it it would be like someone putting up Hanukkah decorations in the office if only a couple people celebrate.

Imo not offensive or wrong at all. Just wouldn’t mean anything to me if I don’t celebrate

So you set up a religious display at your place of employment without approval and apparently glued it to company property, now you think Christmas is "canceled"?

Would you be okay if someone glued a non-Christian religious display at your place of work?

It isn’t. Like, at all.

One person, your boss, telling you not to display religious imagery in the workplace does not mean celebrating Christmas, probably the single most widely loved, celebrated and openly enjoyed holiday in the United States, “is considered offensive nowadays,” and the idea that it is incredibly melodramatic

"Christmas" in the world is pretty much two inter-related events, the Christian "birth of Jesus" Christmas and the secular "Santa and candy canes" Christmas.

I'd put a nativity scene squarely in the first category, where its you putting up a religious symbol.

Given that your boss does not share that religion and has stated that he doesn't think its a Christian area then it seems fine to me to ask you to take down a religious ornament from a workplace.