Elves in blackface?

In My Humble Opinion
1

Check out the Google splash page for today, 12/23, loading Santa’s sleigh… Are the elves in blackface?

Dan

2

No. They’re different colors, grinning broadly with bright white teeth.

3

If Black Pete or some random elf looks dark-skinned, it would be because that is their natural complexion, no?

4

OK, natural complexions, bright white teeth!

Dan

5

Only if you’re assuming all elves are white.

6

Santa must be hiring drow. Naughty kids are sacrificed to Lolth, Demon Queen of Spiders.

7

The elves are Afghan immigrants to Lapland, seasonal workers who are paid the minimum wage for working 24/7 in the runup to Christmas. As they are Muslims they don’t need Christmas holidays, so they are ideal workers.

Other news from the North Pole:

  • Next year the naughty-nice database will be outsourced to India.
  • Santa’s sleigh will be delivered from China already pre-packed with presents, so the elvish seasonal workers will become redundant.
  • Rudolph has been fired for not having a company-approved nose, and all of the other reindeer have been forced to resign due to the #SantaEmploysBullies campaign.
  • Elon Musk is developing a new environment-friendly propulsion system for the sleigh, which will definitely be ready in time for Christmas 2019.
8

Link.

No. There is one white elf, one dark brown (black) elf, and one lighter brown elf, and then a light brown elf with long hair at the end of the runway. Google is just trying to cover multiple skin colors.

Though I admit I would have had the white elf be lighter (while keeping Santa’s skin where it is), both to provide a greater degree of contrast, and so that Santa is ambiguous rather than clearly white.

9

Here I thought this would be about the current contentious question in LARPing about whether Drow are blackface…