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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!”

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

  1. “[We gave you] a republic, if you can keep it.”

    – Ben Franklin, 1787
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    You couldn’t.

    You didn’t.

    You should be ashamed.

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    1. Actual American Fertility Rate

      1920 – 3.6

      2025 – 1.6
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      AI Overview

      The United States was close to 90% white around the 1920s to 1950s, peaking near 90% in the 1940s, but this percentage has steadily declined as non-white populations have grown significantly, with projections showing continued decreases in the white share of the U.S. population.
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      AI Overview

      As of 2025 projections, the percentage of the U.S. population identifying as White is estimated to be around 57.7% (White alone) to 56.3% (Non-Hispanic White alone), continuing a trend of demographic shifts towards greater diversity, with non-Hispanic Whites decreasing as a share and other groups, especially multiracial and Hispanic populations, growing, according to data and projections from sources like Visual Capitalist and U.S. Census trends.
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      AI Overview

      In 1920, the U.S. fertility rate was around 117.9 births per 1,000 women, with white women generally having a lower rate than nonwhite women, though precise 1920 white-only data is scarce, estimates suggest their Total Fertility Rate (TFR) was closer to 3.6 children, while nonwhite women had around 4.9 children, reflecting early declines from earlier peaks.
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      While specific 2025 data for White American fertility isn’t pinpointed in these results, trends from late 2024/early 2025 show the overall U.S. rate around 1.6-1.8 births per woman, with White women’s rates seeing little change in 2024 compared to a decline for other groups, but projections suggest continued low rates, maybe slightly rising for native-born women overall by mid-decade, according to CDC & CBO reports.
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      Goodnight, America.

      Thank you, ladies.

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  2. With its assault on our harmless folklore the true aims of the DEI warrior can no longer be denied:
    Desecrate. Exterminate. Inter.

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  3. . It’s more of an instance of invasion and supplanted culture. North America 🇺🇸 understands the population is small. Try invading and supplanting India or China.

    It’s a numbers game. The US population was established at the cost of many lives through wars decreasing its viable male population. It’s happening in Russia and Ukraine currently. The US was established to fight its last war WWII. It’s for reasons only God knows. It was an abundant place, a true Zion. Imo

    OT . The case of Trump v. Illinois is interesting. Gorsuch says in his dissent that the statute has never been explored as to meaning before. I couldn’t retrieve the submitted briefs to read.

    Trump positioned the NG not as law enforcement but as protection to the civilian law enforcement and federal structures. Seems right to me. As said, the briefs aren’t available easily. The text of the temporary opinion is available readily.

    Robert Bork comes to mind.

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    1. ,^^^. Additionally Gorsuch, Alito and Thomas raise many questions regarding this matter. Including invasion and rebellion, again, Trump is not enforcing Illinois laws via NG. He federalized NG to enforce federal laws and to protect federal property. Is he exempt in this regard.

      Does Gorsuch very narrowly say Trump cannot enforce Illinois law by federalizing the NG? Can the governor use Illinois NG to enforce Illinois law? Trump is enforcing criminal law under immigration and Illinois cannot have a contrary law.

      Pretty good…Trump needs truly competent cadre of lawyers and attorneys to arrest the governor of Illinois for rebellion and insurrection. Two NG have been murdered in Virginia? No wonder Muriel Bowser stepped aside and her police chief.

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      1. Ifreespeechadv
        I don’t consider that as the equivalent. That atrocity was an Islamic father and son practicing Jihad against their Zionist enemies. I am sure they perceive it as payback in the never ending blood debt.

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        1. Not identical but a massacre of Jews celebrating Hanukkah. In Israel some years back there was a massacre of Jews celebrating Passover. In Europe a Muslim woman extinguished Hanukkah candles which is closer but fortunately nobody died. It is clear Jihadists have no intent to respect anyone else’s ways of worshipping Almighty God.

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  5. 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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  7. “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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    2. . . . while rainbow snow falls . . .

      It’s possible that snow is rainbow colored before we look at it, and then it turns white. It’s also possible that apples are gold until we look at them, and then they turn red or green. H/t G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy.

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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      1. The predominant urge and desire of abductees is quite simply to go home.

        The Israelite slaves were out of Egypt before the ink was dry on their release papers.

        But then, they had the capacity and acumen sufficient to the task.

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  16. 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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