“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.”
From the remaking of Nativity scenes to renaming Christmas trees, it seems like every aspect of the holiday must be subject to a political litmus test both in the United States and around the world.
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.
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