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Kool-Aid Larry
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this thread really should be the one deleted
Why, just because you come across as a partisan hack with all your idiotic posts?
Mr. Know-It-All
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Being as he is from the North Pole, there are arguments for and against his being white.
Whiteness would be a good camoflauge technique against predators, but would be offset by his penchant for dressing in a gaudy red suit.
Blackness would be beneficial in that it would attract light which would offset the low temps - but could also lead to nasty sunburns.
I think a study needs to be done to determine which skin color would be most beneficial to surviving in his native habitat.
Whiteness would be a good camoflauge technique against predators, but would be offset by his penchant for dressing in a gaudy red suit.
Blackness would be beneficial in that it would attract light which would offset the low temps - but could also lead to nasty sunburns.
I think a study needs to be done to determine which skin color would be most beneficial to surviving in his native habitat.
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Andy Dufresne
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I have decided that it's impossible to make a joke about a black Santa without sounding racist. 
Kool-Aid Larry
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because it's well known that black ppl are the most common victims of sunburn --- irish just like to complain about it
Mr. Know-It-All
Footballguy
You are right I forgot black people don't get sunburns. Thanks for correcting me.
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Kool-Aid Larry
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because she drives her kids all over town searching for a nativity scene only to be greeted by a giant middle finger made of beer cans.
Kool-Aid Larry is right that your previous post had it backwards. A reduction in melanin was an adaptation selected for specifically to help cope with the lesser sunlight found in northern regions as compared to near the equator. One of the tradeoffs, though, is that less melanin means more susceptibility to sunburn. This is very serious stuff that we need to get right.
Jewell
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A modest proposal to keep Santa human, but to prevent kids from being freaked out by white Santa...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OS74on_7amM/T24lFeQNDOI/AAAAAAAABGY/lM4QZQO9-6E/s1600/Man+turns+blue+from+Silver+Sol.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OS74on_7amM/T24lFeQNDOI/AAAAAAAABGY/lM4QZQO9-6E/s1600/Man+turns+blue+from+Silver+Sol.jpg
Kool-Aid Larry
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Parrothead
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he likes his ho ho hoes?I have decided that it's impossible to make a joke about a black Santa without sounding racist.
Sweet J
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Fennis
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avoiding injuries
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This may have been posted in jest, but there's a lot of truth to it. "Santa got run over by a reindeer" would immediately be banned from the radio.I have decided that it's impossible to make a joke about a black Santa without sounding racist.
Fennis
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black people control the mediaThis may have been posted in jest, but there's a lot of truth to it. "Santa got run over by a reindeer" would immediately be banned from the radio.I have decided that it's impossible to make a joke about a black Santa without sounding racist.
avoiding injuries
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No, mostly guilty white peopleblack people control the mediaThis may have been posted in jest, but there's a lot of truth to it. "Santa got run over by a reindeer" would immediately be banned from the radio.I have decided that it's impossible to make a joke about a black Santa without sounding racist.
Fennis
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Stupid liberal media always putting a pro black slant on everythingNo, mostly guilty white peopleblack people control the mediaThis may have been posted in jest, but there's a lot of truth to it. "Santa got run over by a reindeer" would immediately be banned from the radio.I have decided that it's impossible to make a joke about a black Santa without sounding racist.
avoiding injuries
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ExactlyStupid liberal media always putting a pro black slant on everythingNo, mostly guilty white peopleblack people control the mediaThis may have been posted in jest, but there's a lot of truth to it. "Santa got run over by a reindeer" would immediately be banned from the radio.I have decided that it's impossible to make a joke about a black Santa without sounding racist.
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root of all aliai
They pull stuff from radio and TV when it creates huge negative reaction from their customers (the audience). I wouldn't call that guilt.No, mostly guilty white peopleblack people control the mediaThis may have been posted in jest, but there's a lot of truth to it. "Santa got run over by a reindeer" would immediately be banned from the radio.I have decided that it's impossible to make a joke about a black Santa without sounding racist.
Fennis
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good thing we have you and Megyn and Tila Tequila protecting us from a black santa and the Jeffersons.ExactlyStupid liberal media always putting a pro black slant on everythingNo, mostly guilty white peopleblack people control the mediaThis may have been posted in jest, but there's a lot of truth to it. "Santa got run over by a reindeer" would immediately be banned from the radio.I have decided that it's impossible to make a joke about a black Santa without sounding racist.
Rove!
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fypNo, mostlyblack people control the mediaThis may have been posted in jest, but there's a lot of truth to it. "Santa got run over by a reindeer" would immediately be banned from the radio.I have decided that it's impossible to make a joke about a black Santa without sounding racist.guiltycloset racist white people
timschochet
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What about this guy?
http://greenhouseneutralfoundation.org/articles/2009/12/15/santa-claus-is-chinese/
http://greenhouseneutralfoundation.org/articles/2009/12/15/santa-claus-is-chinese/
timschochet
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I know Santa Claus is Chinese because each Christmas morning after all the gifts are unwrapped and things settle down I systematically go through the presents to see where they are made. The results are almost always the same: roughly 70 percent are from China. After some research, it seems that my one-family survey is representative of the country as a whole.
Let’s start with toys. Some 80 percent of the toys sold in the United States—from Barbie dolls to video games—are made in China. Talking toys that speak English learned the language from Chinese workers. Electronic goods—from Apple’s iPod to Microsoft’s Xbox—are made in China. Clothing—from the latest cashmere sweaters to gym suits—is also likely to have a “Made in China” label.
The Christmas tree itself may come from China. While real Christmas trees are grown in every state in the United States and are marketed locally, many families now gather around artificial Christmas trees. Eight out of every 10 artificial Christmas trees sold in the United States are made in China. Last year Americans spent over $130 million on plastic Christmas trees from China.
Let’s start with toys. Some 80 percent of the toys sold in the United States—from Barbie dolls to video games—are made in China. Talking toys that speak English learned the language from Chinese workers. Electronic goods—from Apple’s iPod to Microsoft’s Xbox—are made in China. Clothing—from the latest cashmere sweaters to gym suits—is also likely to have a “Made in China” label.
The Christmas tree itself may come from China. While real Christmas trees are grown in every state in the United States and are marketed locally, many families now gather around artificial Christmas trees. Eight out of every 10 artificial Christmas trees sold in the United States are made in China. Last year Americans spent over $130 million on plastic Christmas trees from China.
Jayrok
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Mr. Know-It-All
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Why the China hate? We are a global economy. I, for one, welcome our Chinese toy-making overlords.
I knew Santa was Chinese because 30 minutes after I opened Santa's gift, i wanted another one.
pantherclub
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pollardsvision
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This isn't going to fly on twitter. #NotYourAsianSidekick
I'm down with making Santa Chinese.
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root of all aliai
The first one - yes, black people at a minimum. That was the point of the Slate article and the reaction to Kelly's puzzling insistence that he's white for everybody. It's like you miss the point that some people don't think of Santa as exactly the jolly white guy Coca-Cola created.Andy Dufresne said:
The second one - uh...
Jayrok
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Andy Dufresne
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root of all aliai
If howard stern said it I would have laughedDamn. And I'd just gone and deleted the post.
Kool-Aid Larry
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tom22406
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timschochet
Footballguy
I didn't write that. It's a quote from the same website I linked in the post right before. Didn't think I needed to post it twice.
I would never write something like that anyhow. It's part of an anti-free trade xenophobic screed. But that being said, the facts are interesting.
tom22406
Footballguy
I have seen that exact quote many many times before and I didn't click on the link in the post before that and I totally agree that isn't something you normally would write unless you were fishing.
The sad thing is that he thinks he is really funny.
Jewell
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Except that's easily debunked urban legend...
Pre-modern representations of the gift-giver from church history and folklore, notably St Nicholas and Sinterklaas, merged with the English character Father Christmas to create the character known to Americans and the rest of the English-speaking world as Santa Claus.
In the English and later British colonies of North America, and later in the United States, British and Dutch versions of the gift-giver merged further. For example, in Washington Irving's History of New York (1809), Sinterklaas was Americanized into "Santa Claus" (a name first used in the American press in 1773) but lost his bishop's apparel, and was at first pictured as a thick-bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe in a green winter coat. Irving’s book was a lampoon of the Dutch culture of New York, and much of this portrait is his joking invention.
In 1821, the book A New-year's present, to the little ones from five to twelve was published in New York. It contained Old Santeclaus, an anonymous poem describing an old man on a reindeer sleigh, bringing presents to children. Some modern ideas of Santa Claus seemingly became canon after the anonymous publication of the poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (better known today as "The Night Before Christmas") in the Troy, New York, Sentinel on December 23, 1823; the poem was later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore. Many of his modern attributes are established in this poem, such as riding in a sleigh that lands on the roof, entering through the chimney, and having a bag full of toys. St. Nick is described as being "chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf" with "a little round belly", that "shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly", in spite of which the "miniature sleigh" and "tiny reindeer" still indicate that he is physically diminutive. The reindeer were also named: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder and Blixem (Dunder and Blixem came from the old Dutch words for thunder and lightning, which were later changed to the more German sounding Donner and Blitzen).
As the years passed, Santa Claus evolved in popular culture into a large, heavyset person. One of the first artists to define Santa Claus's modern image was Thomas Nast, an American cartoonist of the 19th century. In 1863, a picture of Santa illustrated by Nast appeared inHarper's Weekly.
Thomas Nast immortalized Santa Claus with an illustration for the January 3, 1863 issue ofHarper's Weekly. Note that Santa is dressed in an American flag, and has a puppet with the name "Jeff" written on it, reflecting its Civil War context.
The story that Santa Claus lives at the North Pole may also have been a Nast creation. His Christmas image in the Harper’s issue dated December 29, 1866 was a collage of engravings titled Santa Claus and His Works, which included the caption "Santa Claussville, N.P." A color collection of Nast's pictures, published in 1869, had a poem also titled "Santa Claus and His Works" by George P. Webster, who wrote that Santa Claus’s home was "near the North Pole, in the ice and snow".
The tale had become well known by the 1870s. A boy from Colorado writing to the children's magazine The Nursery in late 1874 said, "If we did not live so very far from the North Pole, I should ask Santa Claus to bring me a donkey."[31]
The idea of a wife for Santa Claus may have been the creation of American authors, beginning in the mid-19th century. In 1889, the poet Katherine Lee Bates popularized Mrs. Claus in the poem "Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride".
"Is There a Santa Claus?" was the title of an editorial appearing in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun. The editorial, which included the famous reply Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, has become an indelible part of popular Christmas lore in the United States and Canada.
20th century
L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, a 1902 children's book, further popularized Santa Claus. Much of Santa Claus’s mythos was not set in stone at the time, leaving Baum to give his "Neclaus" (Necile’s Little One) a wide variety of immortal support, a home in the Laughing Valley of Hohaho, andten reindeer—who could not fly, but leapt in enormous, flight-like bounds. Claus's immortality was earned, much like his title ("Santa"), decided by a vote of those naturally immortal. This work also established Claus’s motives: a happy childhood among immortals. When Ak, Master Woodsman of the World, exposes him to the misery and poverty of children in the outside world, Santa strives to find a way to bring joy into the lives of all children, and eventually invents toys as a principal means.
Images of Santa Claus were further popularized through Haddon Sundblom’s depiction of him for The Coca-Cola Company’s Christmas advertising in the 1930s. The popularity of the image spawned urban legends that Santa Claus was invented by The Coca-Cola Company or that Santa wears red and white because they are the colors used to promote the Coca-Cola brand. Historically, Coca-Cola was not the first soft drink company to utilize the modern image of Santa Claus in its advertising—White Rock Beverages had already used a red and white Santa to sell mineral water in 1915 and then in advertisements for its ginger ale in 1923. Earlier still, Santa Claus had appeared dressed in red and white and essentially in his current form on several covers of Puck magazine in the first few years of the 20th century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus
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jon_mx (113 Likes, 7 Friends) >>>> pantherclub (41 Likes, 3 Friends) + rudeclasslessthugs (3 Likes, 0 Friends)
just saying......
pollardsvision
Footballguy
I don't see what's offensive about the Chinese food/hungry again in 30 min jokes.
Whether it's true or funny is another matter, but it doesn't seem offensive.
It's not like some stupid saying about Americanized Chinese food is trying to say anything about Chinese people.
The only thing Americanized Chinese food might possibly say about Chinese people is that they are pretty smart and resourceful for realizing that Americans will gleefully eat anything that's deep-fried and drenched in sugar.
Whether it's true or funny is another matter, but it doesn't seem offensive.
It's not like some stupid saying about Americanized Chinese food is trying to say anything about Chinese people.
The only thing Americanized Chinese food might possibly say about Chinese people is that they are pretty smart and resourceful for realizing that Americans will gleefully eat anything that's deep-fried and drenched in sugar.
