Quote :

"Jesus was a white man, too. He was a historical figure; that’s a verifiable fact — as is Santa"

Quote :

"Jesus was a white man, too. He was a historical figure; that’s a verifiable fact — as is Santa"

Quote :

"Jesus was a white man, too. He was a historical figure; that’s a verifiable fact — as is Santa"

Quote :

"Jesus was a white man, too. He was a historical figure; that’s a verifiable fact — as is Santa"

Quote :

"Jesus was a white man, too. He was a historical figure; that’s a verifiable fact — as is Santa"

12/13/2013 12:51:47 AM

My wife is from the middle east and according to the us government she is white. So why not jesus?

12/13/2013 1:53:29 AM

my biggest problem with this is that Santa lives at the North Pole... Penguins live at the south pole. how could Santa POSSIBLY be a species that lives literally halfway around the world from him??

12/13/2013 6:30:29 AM

Where in Africa was Aisha born?

12/13/2013 6:34:49 AM

Anyone catch at 2:40 where "Bernard" compares African Americans, Latinas and Asians to drag queens?

12/13/2013 7:53:31 AM

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"The modern figure of Santa Claus is derived from the Dutch figure of Sinterklaas, which, in turn, was part of its basis in hagiographical tales concerning the historical figure of Christian bishop and gift giver Saint Nicholas. During the Christianization of Germanic Europe, this figure may have absorbed elements of the god Odin, who was associated with the Germanic pagan midwinter event of Yule and led the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession through the sky. Over time, traits of this character and the British folklore character Father Christmas merged to form the modern Santa Claus known today."

Santa is white. So what's the problem with either of these statements on Fox News? There's plenty of shit to ridicule Fox News for, but this ain't one of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_claus

12/13/2013 8:26:12 AM

If we make the mascot for Kwanzaa white I'm down with making Santa black.

12/13/2013 8:28:24 AM

Maybe I'm way off base here, but over the last few years I've been operating under the assumption that Santa isn't real.

12/13/2013 8:49:19 AM

^what a typical liberal.

12/13/2013 8:50:18 AM

^^did you not read what I just posted?

12/13/2013 8:54:38 AM

The band "House of Pain" began as a group of cosmological scientists' attempt to explain what they call "superstring theory" or "super string-theory".

As the scientists themselves are unsure of whether they exist or not, the semantics surrounding the proper punctuation of it's expressions have yet to be made concrete by linguists. Also of note is that regardless of the situation in which science may find itself, the American Psychological Association would have to lift it's complete idea embargo on theory sciences altogether. An embargo which has done untold harm to the field of even applied sciences.
(To understand how much damage, you must first understand when the embargo started, which, it turns out, was either:
1. The beginning of time.
2. The instant the first superstring was or was not formed.
3. 1987 *probably June*)

Anyway, back to the song.


House of Pain's hit song addressed these ideas more directly in it's first draft. It was ultimately scrapped, however when the single did so poorly on the charts that a field of science was formed around the idea that one could sell exactly negative one-half copies of a song, of which here, the first stanza is written:

Flop around, By House of Pain

"FLOP AROUND
FLOP AROUND

FLOP UP
AND FLOP UP

AND GET

LEFT (or right. perhaps both simultaneously.)"

12/13/2013 9:10:22 AM

Quote :

"Santa is white."

Ok cool. What species of rabbit is the Easter Rabbit? Is the tooth fairy a human, or actually a fairy from the heavens?

Quote :

" So what's the problem with either of these statements on Fox News?"

Quote :

"Well, what we know about him is that he was Galilean. As a Galilean, he would have been what is referred to as a Palestinian Jew. He would look the way that the average Palestinian would look today. So that would mean dark features, hairy, probably a longer nose, black hair."

Also, a little background on Megyn Kelly: http://gawker.com/megyn-kelly-is-a-race-hustler-1482045711

Jon Stewart weighs in:

12/13/2013 9:44:49 AM

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"Ok cool. What species of rabbit is the Easter Rabbit? Is the tooth fairy a human, or actually a fairy from the heavens?"

\

Do either of those have any origin stories based on real people? No.

12/13/2013 9:46:57 AM

Quote :

"Santa is white"

I think you need to talk to Bill Clinton and figure out what the definition of "is" is.

12/13/2013 9:48:21 AM

Quote :

"So what's the problem with either of these statements on Fox News? "

What about the "Jesus is White; that's a verifiable fact"?

12/13/2013 10:01:33 AM

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12/13/2013 10:02:27 AM

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/insisting-jesus-was-white-is-bad-history-and-bad-theology/282310/

12/13/2013 10:03:33 AM

I came to TWW this morning to see if anyone would defend the argument that Santa and Jesus are white men. haha!

12/13/2013 10:17:09 AM

I am gonna go ahead and say it. I haven't watched the video or anything, but what does "white" even mean in this context?

Wouldn't it be more PC to be discussing his nationality and not the color of his skin?

[Edited on December 13, 2013 at 10:18 AM. Reason : .]

12/13/2013 10:17:27 AM

pretty great that a loud and proud climate change denier is the one who is defending an absolute fantasy

12/13/2013 10:21:18 AM

The real story hear is that a Megyn Kelly, a grown woman, believes in Santa Claus.


Now, in terms of how the fictional character is represented... it's a fairy tale anyway, so if Aisha Harris wants a black santa, then she ought to start a holiday company that manufactures black santa memorabilia.

Of course this guy might take issue with that and sue:



[Edited on December 13, 2013 at 10:25 AM. Reason : .]

12/13/2013 10:25:09 AM

[Edited on December 13, 2013 at 12:27 PM. Reason : ]

12/13/2013 12:24:18 PM

well if you use the same racial categories as the US Census Bureau then Jesus was White

but in the popular parlance he wasn't

anyway, here's the WaPo fluff piece the Gawker article was gawking at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/megyn-kelly-foxs-brightest-fastest-rising-star/2013/12/11/e4987dec-5dee-11e3-be07-006c776266ed_story.html?tid=pm_pop

12/13/2013 7:46:35 PM

While the daily show is right that St Nicholas was from "modern day Turkey" he wasn't Turkish. The Turks were a nomadic tribe from Asia that invaded much later.


It's like saying Pocahantas should be depicted as white because she's from Virginia.

12/13/2013 8:01:34 PM

countering Fox News with The Daily Show is like throwing water on a grease fire

12/13/2013 9:54:36 PM

^^ what did the folks who lived in Turkey, back in 330 A.D., look like?

12/13/2013 10:08:42 PM

From what I've seen, it sounds like many of the people in what is now Turkey were Hellenistic, largely ruled by the Greeks following the conquest by the Macedonian Alexander the Great, although there were still plenty of Semitic people in the area and Armenians to the east; also, the Turks did indeed have their origins in central Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia

12/13/2013 10:18:02 PM

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/12/yes-megyn-kelly-santa-can-be-black-and-jesus-too.html

12/14/2013 5:58:01 PM

Anybody that gets their news from the daily show is a goddamn moron.

12/14/2013 6:01:17 PM

Agreed, but in reality I doubt many do.

12/14/2013 6:03:55 PM

People that get their news from the Daily Show do pretty well for themselves:

http://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/news-sources-fdu.jpg

12/14/2013 6:48:48 PM

^You could at least post some context for that picture. It's not like anybody has a clue what those numbers mean without it.

12/15/2013 1:03:53 AM

The only thing worse than somebody arguing that a fictional character is a certain way, is somebody arguing that somebody arguing that a fictional character is a certain way is wrong.

[Edited on December 15, 2013 at 2:00 AM. Reason : And the only thing worse than that, is my argument. ]

[Edited on December 15, 2013 at 2:01 AM. Reason : Merry CHRISTmas, heathens. ]

12/15/2013 2:00:06 AM

/thread

12/15/2013 3:20:09 AM

12/15/2013 4:44:12 AM

Quote :

"After taking a "sick day" to recover from a bout of racism, Megyn Kelly was back in front of the cameras on Friday to read off the statement penned for her by Damage Control."

"JUST KIDDING GUYZ"

12/16/2013 11:08:52 AM

but.....Rosa Parks ended racism.

12/16/2013 11:52:30 AM

Her hair is looking much better today. I was worried about her.

12/16/2013 12:42:32 PM

This country is so fucked.

12/16/2013 12:55:19 PM

this thread is funny

12/16/2013 2:49:01 PM

^I know. This was one of the funniest (more ridiculous) comments:

Quote :

"So what's the problem with either of these statements on Fox News?"

[Edited on December 16, 2013 at 2:51 PM. Reason : ]

12/16/2013 2:50:50 PM

no the funniest is what you just said and anything synasp cranks out of his gonorrhea fevered skull

[Edited on December 16, 2013 at 5:05 PM. Reason : l]

12/16/2013 5:05:07 PM

I think what you just said was pretty funny. But the one I quoted is a tad funnier.

12/16/2013 5:06:44 PM

Anyone see the new fighter pilot?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152057179620490

[Edited on December 17, 2013 at 6:06 AM. Reason : s]

12/17/2013 6:06:23 AM

the class of 97 were all a bunch of cunts. fuck that class right in the earhole

12/17/2013 6:43:47 AM

Class of 97 here. Can confirm. 1997 was like a critical mass of cunts.

[Edited on December 17, 2013 at 9:55 AM. Reason : l]

12/17/2013 9:54:36 AM

12/21/2013 11:05:09 AM

well that didn't work

http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2013/12/20/glenn-beck-gets-real-about-santa-claus-warning-cover-your-kids-ears/

12/21/2013 12:28:33 PM

^ That pretty much sums up my thoughts on both. I had a hard time not posting on my FB feed that you're a dumb motherfucker if you actually waste your energy caring about any of this bullshit.

(It's also why I said this country is fucked in the black santa thread.)

12/21/2013 12:35:42 PM

http://youtu.be/WJGDtonkqPs

1/5/2014 6:37:22 PM