Keep talkin' Megyn...

[nitasee]

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly insists Santa Claus is white
Santa Claus -who is not real - "is what he is," says the Fox News host

On her show Wednesday night, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly took a stand on one of the most important issues of our time: Whether or not Santa Claus - who does not exist - is a white man. As far as Kelly is concerned, there is no question

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[fruitymangoes]

shhh with your logic conclusions, logic is banned from Fox News

[fenris_lorsrai]

Well God sent the Holy Ghost to Mary, so of course Jesus is white. His Dad's a ghost! can't get much whiter.

[moonshaz]

+1

[nitasee]

But, but...we all know that everyone in the Bible was white.

[darth_eldritch]

No, only those who were righteous and holy.

[nitasee]

Oh, yeah. I stand corrected. Those enemies that were smited must have been darker.

[qara_isuke]

Another person laughing at the idea of Jesus being white.

Jesus was a brown-skinned man with dark hair and eyes. And that's only if we consider the demographics of that region of the world, before we even go into the ethnicity of the Jewish population during that period in history.

Personally, if we're going to discuss Santa Claus I think he'd be more like the Vorlons. You see whatever makes the most sense to you.

[soleiltropiques]

"Personally, if we're going to discuss Santa Claus I think he'd be more like the Vorlons."

*Waves hand to fellow B5 fan!*

I agree. I think he would have be a Vorlon as well (so maybe The Grinch was a Shadow?).

/Totally OT fan-squee moment. :-D :-D

[strixluna]

If Santa is like the Vorlons then he's an evil, manipulative bastard!

Err...sorry. I might have rather strong negative feelings about those paternalistic jerks :P

[blondebeaker]

Personally, if we're going to discuss Santa Claus I think he'd be more like the Vorlons. You see whatever makes the most sense to you.

Funny you should mention this bit, I saw a really cheesy Christmas movie called "Cancel Christmas" (Santa gets fed up with everyone's greed and says fuck it, no Xmas unless I see a kid do a selfless act) a couple years ago. When the kids see the Santa in that movie, they see him as the same race as themselves. Still in the red suite and white beard though.

Seriously it blew my mind when I saw it.

[poetic_pixie_13]

You know, I mean, Jesus was a white man, too.

Jesus was a Palestinian Jew. So, like, thanks for playing?

(God, the way Jesus has been/still is (un)racialized and coded as white in order to justify some horrific shit, I can't. Jesus looked like, and has more in common with, the people who Fox News wants to bomb out of existence than any of these rich, white fuckers.)

[nitasee]

Jesus looked like, and has more in common with, the people who Fox News wants to bomb out of existence than any of these rich, white fuckers.

This. 100x

[soleiltropiques]

Very well said and IAC.

[elialshadowpine]

I know. Seriously, I got this as a kid. How the fuck... okay, I know how the fuck, racism, but seriously.

[shipperx]

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly took a stand on one of the most important issues of our time: Whether or not Santa Claus - who does not exist - is a white man. As far as Kelly is concerned, there is no question that he is.

*headdesk*

*ahem*

HE IS FICTIONAL, YOU FOX CLONE!

You know, I mean, Jesus was a white man, too.
Middle eastern Jewish.

He was a historical figure; that’s a verifiable fact
Circumstantial. He probably existed, but there is little (any?) direct, verifiable evidence. (Yes, there's the "James brother of Jesus" line in Josephus, but there's serious question as to whether it was inserted later rather than in the original text.)

-as is Santa,
St. Nicholas may have been real.

"Santa," as American kids recognize him, was mostly a 19th century invention, a combination of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and of a Coca-Cola ad campaign.

[thelilyqueen]

Yup, pre-19th cen depictions of St. Nick would be unrecognizable to most - he was usually shown as a very thin man in bishop's robes, not the more rotund guy in red velvet PJs with white fur trim we know.