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“And May All Your Christmases Be [Woke]”: Liberal Pundits Come for Santa and Other Holiday Traditions

“And may all your Christmases be [woke].”

As Santa prepares for his harrowing journey around the world, he is being closely pursued by liberal commentators protesting his race, gender, and capitalist leanings.

The perpetually outraged have finally come for Christmas.

One columnist at Slate called for Santa to be replaced by a penguin due to his race. Aisha Harris admitted that she was being a bit cheeky in pushing the penguin substitute but sought to express “my real concern that America continues to promote the harmful idea of whiteness-as-default.”

Back to Santa. The British Brighton and Hove Museums have been the focus of this debate over the reposting of an earlier column by the museum’s Joint Head of Culture Change, Simone LaCorbinière, who explained that the traditional Christmas simply will not do with a Santa who is “too white, male” and a colonizer of elves.

I suppose that when you use public dollars to hire someone who will serve as “Joint Head of Culture Change,” it was only a matter of time before they came for Christmas. After all, the idea is that the British culture must generally change, right?

In a 2023 column titled Decolonising Father Christmas, LaCorbinière warns that Santa is “too white, male” and the traditional story “presents Santa as the ultimate authority of all societies. This asks us to accept colonial assumptions of cultural superiority. It doesn’t recognise the complex realities colonised people face.”

She expresses horror at the fact that Santa is “an old white man [who] supervise[s] the elves’ work.” We can put aside that Santa was identified in “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (1823) as a  “chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf.” LaCorbinière portrays him as a heartless white capitalist living off the labor of a captive elf workforce. She calls for “Santa to work in the factory alongside the elves.”

Changes must be made, according to the museum, to decolonize Christmas and break away from holiday images that are “white, male and non-disabled”:

“This perpetuates the harmful ‘colonial gaze’. Non-Western cultures are ‘othered’. It says that the coloniser has the power to judge all people. And it ignores many communities’ histories and traditions. Telling the story like this teaches new generations that the coloniser knows best.”

Santa is not alone.

In the meantime, NPR noted White Christmas has racist undertones, while Joy Reid has declared Jingle Bells to be a racist song.

Even “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a “bigoted” story fed to the populace to reinforce capitalist and racist values. Professor James Deaville warned recently that “while some viewers see the ending as affirming community, the film also keeps George partly ignorant of how the forces of inequity are actually operating in his largely white community.”

They are the self-flagellants of the holidays, moving through Christmas markets (which are also fascist traditions) with Gregorian chants of guilt.   Here are some enlightened carolers seen recently spreading “Tidings of Great Joy [Reid]” for the holiday:

Clearly there are many liberals who still enjoy the holidays without the need for self-affirming declarations of outrage or disgust.  However, for some on the left, there is little joy in Christmas without identity politics and white guilt. So the more the merrier and, as Tiny Tim declared, “God bless us, every one!”

65 thoughts on ““And May All Your Christmases Be [Woke]”: Liberal Pundits Come for Santa and Other Holiday Traditions”

  1. Leave it to the wokesters to be unable, or unwilling, to support the ultimate message of the Christmas season: “Peace on Earth, goodwill toward men.” Merry Christmas.

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  3. “Santa who is “too white, male” and a colonizer of elves.”

    Is the next step that Santa needs a license to slide down chimneys, while rainbow snow falls from the sky, so no one feels offended?

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    1. S Meyer– I am confident that Democrat Epstein’s peccadilloes pale in comparison to Santa’s long tolerated abuse of elves of course it is Trump’s fault. I demand to see the cache of photos from the North Pole elf slave pens.

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  4. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlepersons, but please don’t mess with my smiling, plump, rosy-cheeked patriarchal Santa Claus! Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎅

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  5. Interesting that these self-absorbed pipsqueaks missed the memo that ‘wokeism” is in decline. Christmas is not only a beloved holiday sacred to Christians and celebrated by non-Christians as well, it is a mighty engine of our economy. Leftists didn’t used to be so stupid. Christmas is the immovable rock upon which their ship will founder.

    That said, a very Merry Christmas to you and your family, Professor.

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  7. They complain that: “This asks us to accept colonial assumptions of cultural superiority.”

    If some cultures are not clearly superior, why do these complaining a******s keep coming here by the millions?

    Nobody is trying to sneak into Zimbabwe or Somalia to bask in or lap up or steal the fruits of their ‘great’ cultures. Even Joy Reid isn’t that stupid and that is a very low bar.

    Many cultures are inferior by standards of safety, treatment of women, treatment of the weak and their accomplishments. You don’t find a Bernini, Newton, Brunelleschi, Rembrandt, Beethoven, Musk, Aristarchos, Appolonius, Kepler or Edison in those crap hole societies no matter what you pretend.

    QED

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  8. Santa Claus is an anagram.
    Satan Claus(e).

    Merry Xmas 🎄

    Just kidding but yes, people of color actually hate white people. It’s been a secret I guess.

    Enjoy your families this season.

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    1. Just kidding but yes, people of color actually hate white people. It’s been a secret I guess.

      Perhaps… but nearly not as much as the number of white people who hate black people. It’s just projection, I guess, ever since the Democrats successfully got black Americans onto their poverty plantations in order to harvest their votes.

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  12. She expresses horror at the fact that Santa is “an old white man [who] supervise[s] the elves’ work.”

    The true horror, revealed here for the first time: Santa compels the elves to sign NC/ND agreements. Side gigs are verboten. Support animals are taboo. And using a preferred pronoun is a firing offense.

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