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But a non-white Santa Claus (who is, of course, just Odin in red) would be cultural appropriation. And that’s stealing, racist, and wrong.
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How the hell can anyone be this gorram stupid? I mean seriously, how deluded do you have to be to think this?
Well, Jewish is technically white. Bit of a stretch, sure, but still…
Your Norse gods are altogether too uptight and hostile, though one was low-key.
Look, arguing over Santa’s race is pretty stupid. But he is white. Black Santa wouldn’t live in the Arctic Circle.
Okay, maybe I could accept Asiatic Santa. But Santa does not have a Fu Manchu, he has a full and jolly white beard.
Well, the test is easy: If he shoots a black guy, does the media report it?
Nevermind!
Consider yourself on report.
It may not be racist for Santa to be portrayed as white, as Kelly claims the writer said (I haven’t read the original article), but to claim that Santa can’t be black is racist. Just because the historical basis for Santa Claus – St. Nicholas – was white, doesn’t mean that he can’t be portrayed (as the male pundit in that clip said) as a black man, a latina, or a drag queen. (And did you notice how quickly she shut him down when he started saying that?)
What Kelly doesn’t seem to get is that Santa Claus as he exists in modern American society is a fictional character, and not a historically accurate representation of a 4th-century Greek bishop. As such, Santa is much more a creation of Thomas Nast and the Coca Cola company than a historical “fact,” as she claimed. So there is no reason he cannot be depicted as black, yellow, red, or blue. Unless of course, you don’t like minorities getting uppity ideas about being the same as the rest of us.
[Hmm… right wing pundit mixes up fact and fiction. Alert the news media!]
Word, homes.
Look, why don’t we agree to split the difference : Santa has to be white for Reasons, but the elves toiling all year to make toys for zero compensation can be black and Asian if you want.
Oh, I dunno. Fu Manchus can befull and jolly.
That is a jolly-looking one, but it’s more wispy than full.
Very well said.
Fair point, but I like the idea of a Santa who will bring me prezzies if I’m good and pop my eyeball out if I’m bad.
And I like the idea of children leaving fish heads out for Santa to snack on.
Okay, I had initially been flippant. But now I’ll pose it seriously. Santa Claus (as he currently exists) is tangentially linked to St. Nicholas, but is, more accurately, a Dutch/Germanic amalgamation of Odin’s Yule traditions and some English anti-Puritan drunken brawler version of Christmas.
For reasons that escape me, Miley Cyrus and some other broad who dressed like a “generic Asian” forced us all to go through another round of lecturing about “cultural appropriation” (something that previously seemed to come up with the naming of college sports teams). Apparently, it’s offensive, bad, racist, and somehow damaging. (A quick google search shows a bizarre fixation on white people with dreadlocks).
Objecting to a black Sinterklass, apparently, makes you a racist who doesn’t “like minorities getting uppity ideas about being the same as the rest of us.” I don’t see why it’s not just opposing an act of cultural appropriation.
Objecting to a black Santa Claus is fine. Objecting to a black Santa Claus but not caring about an English-speaking Santa Claus is stupid.