Is Santa Clause becoming an unacceptable figure in this political correct age?

Roger_007

White, (racial stereotype?), male,(gender stereotype?), overweight, drinks and drives/flies, sneaks into children's bedrooms late at night, gives presents to children, (grooming?).
Is it only a matter of time before he becomes a victim of the PC brigade?

neris

its happened already. kids dont get to sit on santas knee anymore in a lot of places

Arghus

If he was real, his feelings would be badly hurt.

Grayson

There's been santa's of other races. No harm there unless you're Megyn Kelly.

Realt Dearg Sec

I love the way that, in the absence of any actual "PC gone mad" stories, lads have to imagine one so they can complain about it. Enjoy the dinner OP, relax for a few hours.

CB19Kevo

The magic it brings to Christmas for kid's and by extension adults is amazing.
Its a harsh world but just look at the positives instead of the negatives.

If anything i believe parents are getting better overall at buying into the magic of Christmas,No shame in it and lovely to see they can do this for the joy of there children.

neris

neris wrote: »

its happened already. kids dont get to sit on santas knee anymore in a lot of places

Really?

Jesus the serial whingers have to ruin everything don't they!

Realt Dearg Sec

Deleted User wrote: »

neris wrote: »

its happened already. kids dont get to sit on santas knee anymore in a lot of places

Really?

Jesus the serial whingers have to ruin everything don't they!

You're on a thread where someone has imagined fictional complaints about Santa to rail against. Who are the serial whingers here? I'd bet good money this thing about not being allowed sit on Santa's lap is also a figment of someone's imagination as well.

Mantis Toboggan

Surely Santa being male is sexist?

bnt

What? If you're a rabid SJW, be glad you're not in the Netherlands at this time of year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBqoH-qx-os

mansize

Santa Claus (no e)

Saipanne

That PC crowd are no better than fascists.

Arne_Saknussem

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

You're on a thread where someone has imagined fictional complaints about Santa to rail against. Who are the serial whingers here? I'd bet good money this thing about not being allowed sit on Santa's lap is also a figment of someone's imagination as well.

http://www.parenting.com/blogs/show-and-tell/lauren-parentingcom/kids-banned-sitting-santas-lap

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066623/No-sitting-Father-Christmas-knee-volunteers-arent-checked-CRB.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2864044/Calls-child-protection-activist-ban-kids-sitting-Santa-s-lap-puts-Christmas-tradition-jeopardy.html

http://www.aww.com.au/latest-news/news-stories/calls-to-ban-children-from-sitting-on-santas-lap-9702

http://www.mamamia.com.au/ban-sitting-santa-lap/

http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1066475/child-safety-expert-warns-against-sitting-on-santas-lap

http://www.parent24.com/Child_7-12/Development/health_safety/No-more-sitting-on-Santas-knee-20111129


I'll take that bet

Roger_007

mansize wrote: »

Santa Claus (no e)

Damned predictive text?:mad:

tomwaterford

Saipanne wrote: »

That PC crowd are no better than fascists.

This story is as real as leprechauns

Saipanne

tomwaterford wrote: »

This story is as real as leprechauns

At best, they are authoritarians. They are far from the liberal end of the spectrum, like they think.

Realt Dearg Sec

Saipanne wrote: »

tomwaterford wrote: »

This story is as real as leprechauns

At best, they are authoritarians. They are from from the liberal end of the spectrum, like they think.

Who are? The imaginary anti Santa brigade?

Saipanne

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Who are? The imaginary anti Santa brigade?

The PC crowd.

Barry Badrinath

Dont forget:

Child Labour
Elf and Safety
Biiiig hipster beard
Animal cruelty
Fashon faux pas

And and and

Not bringing me a Mr Frosty! Cnut

Skommando

give it a rest for one day folks, it's Christmas, you're just making yourself as bad as the PC nazi's.

Realt Dearg Sec

Arne_Saknussem wrote: »

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

You're on a thread where someone has imagined fictional complaints about Santa to rail against. Who are the serial whingers here? I'd bet good money this thing about not being allowed sit on Santa's lap is also a figment of someone's imagination as well.

http://www.parenting.com/blogs/show-and-tell/lauren-parentingcom/kids-banned-sitting-santas-lap

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066623/No-sitting-Father-Christmas-knee-volunteers-arent-checked-CRB.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2864044/Calls-child-protection-activist-ban-kids-sitting-Santa-s-lap-puts-Christmas-tradition-jeopardy.html

http://www.aww.com.au/latest-news/news-stories/calls-to-ban-children-from-sitting-on-santas-lap-9702

http://www.mamamia.com.au/ban-sitting-santa-lap/

http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1066475/child-safety-expert-warns-against-sitting-on-santas-lap

http://www.parent24.com/Child_7-12/Development/health_safety/No-more-sitting-on-Santas-knee-20111129


I'll take that bet

Have you read any of the articles? You might lose the bet...

Setting aside the fact that it's the likes of the daily mail that have stoked up all the paedophile paranoia in the first place, not the imaginary PC brigade who end up being blamed for its consequences.

Realt Dearg Sec

Saipanne wrote: »

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Who are? The imaginary anti Santa brigade?

The PC crowd.

It must be exhausting being that worked up about imaginary people and their imaginary opinions.

Roger_007

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

It must be exhausting being that worked up about imaginary people and their imaginary opinions.

Would you please read the opening post again. It merely posed a question. It did not express an opinion?

Saipanne

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

It must be exhausting being that worked up about imaginary people and their imaginary opinions.

Yeah, no such thing as politically correct nutters. It's not like I've ever met such people in real life. It's not like these people smear their poison all over my social media feed. It's not like their agenda dominates the likes of The Guardian, to the extent that a once great periodical is practically unreadable. The current shift of the working class to the right has nothing to do with the hijacking of the left by middle class identity politics.

No, none of this is happening. Trump, Brexit, Wilders, Le Pen. It's all because "racists" have magically just appeared out of nowhere. What worries me the most is not this rise of the right, it's the lefts inability to acknowledge the reasons why.

Merry Christmas.

Realt Dearg Sec

Roger_007 wrote: »

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

It must be exhausting being that worked up about imaginary people and their imaginary opinions.

Would you please read the opening post again. It merely posed a question. It did not express an opinion?

What was the point of the question?

Realt Dearg Sec

Saipanne wrote: »

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

It must be exhausting being that worked up about imaginary people and their imaginary opinions.

Yeah, no such thing as politically correct nutters. It's not like I've ever met such people in real life. It's not like these people smear their poison all over my social media feed. It's not like their agenda dominates the likes of The Guardian, to the extent that a once great periodical is practically unreadable. The current shift of the working class to the right has nothing to do with the hijacking of the left by middle class identity politics.

No, none of this is happening. Trump, Brexit, Wilders, Le Pen. It's all because "racists" have magically just appeared out of nowhere. What worries me the most is not this rise of the right, it's the lefts inability to acknowledge the reasons why.

Merry Christmas.

What's all that to do with Santa?

Saipanne

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

What's all that to do with Santa?

Santa is transgender.

laugh

As a kid even when I believed in North Pole Santa I didn't see the point of seeing a fake Santa in a shop.

suicide_circus

http://rollingout.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cosby1983.jpg

Realt Dearg Sec

Saipanne wrote: »

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

What's all that to do with Santa?

Santa is transgender.

Leave Tranta Claus out of this.

Saipanne

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Leave Tranta Claus out of this.

What about Panti Claus?

RayM

neris wrote: »

its happened already. kids dont get to sit on santas knee anymore in a lot of places

Ah, that brings back childhood memories.

"Santa, is that a phone in your pocket?"

"No, it's 1986, I can't fit a mobile phone in my pocket"

alchemist33

Grayson wrote: »

There's been santa's of other races. No harm there unless you're Megyn Kelly.

Yeah but try casting a white person as a character who's now white in a comic or whatever the source material is, and contrast the reaction

Realt Dearg Sec

What would the contrast consist of?

Realt Dearg Sec

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

You're on a thread where someone has imagined fictional complaints about Santa to rail against. Who are the serial whingers here? I'd bet good money this thing about not being allowed sit on Santa's lap is also a figment of someone's imagination as well.

In one breath some people complain about snowflakes taking offence at everything, in the next they get offended about a scenario they dream up in their head.

Realt Dearg Sec

The great irony of the anti-"PC Brigade" mission, they're perpetually offended, not even reality gets in the way of the endless outrage.

The King of Moo

There's something so seasonally appropriate about the special snowflakes who whinge about not being allowed to be racist/sexist/homophobic, having to make up stories to get offended by.

Merry Christmas everyone!

infogiver

Roger_007 wrote: »

White, (racial stereotype?), male,(gender stereotype?), overweight, drinks and drives/flies, sneaks into children's bedrooms late at night, gives presents to children, (grooming?).
Is it only a matter of time before he becomes a victim of the PC brigade?

The ridiculous PC brigade are already on the back foot because, as always over the centuries, common sense is coming back into vogue.
In 10 years time we'll all laugh at how preposterous all this hyper sensitivity became.

Realt Dearg Sec

I agree. We'll all laugh at how silly it was to have a hair trigger reaction to an attitude that doesn't actually exist. The ludicrous hysteria of the daily mail readers will look like the complete lunacy it manifestly is.

Saipanne

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

The great irony of the anti-"PC Brigade" mission, they're perpetually offended, not even reality gets in the way of the endless outrage.

I just stand up to authoritarianism, in all its forms.

tomwaterford

Saipanne wrote: »

I just stand up to authoritarianism, in all its forms.

Even imaginary it seems


Your in for a tough life kid,look after yourself

Saipanne

tomwaterford wrote: »

Even imaginary it seems


Your in for a tough life kid,look after yourself

Authoritarian political correctness is very real, unfortunately. And is largely to blame for the mess of Trump and Brexit.

But you continue to lie to yourself and blame it on the "racists".

alchemist33

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

What would the contrast consist of?

Tilda Swinton played a part which was that of an Asian man in Dr Strange. There was a furore over this about Hollywood being racist. But anybody who comments about a black Santa is derided as racist (haven't got the reference but I saw it in the last few days). The contrast is that cries of cultural appropriation only seem to go in one direction (I don't buy this at all, btw. Let people make references to/use other cultural memes as much as they want as far as I'm concerned)

Arne_Saknussem

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Have you read any of the articles? You might lose the bet...

Setting aside the fact that it's the likes of the daily mail that have stoked up all the paedophile paranoia in the first place, not the imaginary PC brigade who end up being blamed for its consequences.

Pointing the finger at the Daily Mail for totally irrelevant things that they may or may not have done is classic diversion.

You lose, pay up!

Realt Dearg Sec

alchemist33 wrote: »

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

What would the contrast consist of?

Tilda Swinton played a part which was that of an Asian man in Dr Strange. There was a furore over this about Hollywood being racist. But anybody who comments about a black Santa is derided as racist (haven't got the reference but I saw it in the last few days). The contrast is that cries of cultural appropriation only seem to go in one direction (I don't buy this at all, btw. Let people make references to/use other cultural memes as much as they want as far as I'm concerned)

So when people complain about a white person playing a black character is a furore, but when people complain about a black person playing a white character they're just commenting.

Glad you cleared that up, here was me thinking you were applying a double standard.

Realt Dearg Sec

Saipanne wrote: »

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

The great irony of the anti-"PC Brigade" mission, they're perpetually offended, not even reality gets in the way of the endless outrage.

I just stand up to authoritarianism, in all its forms.

You're a hero. A warrior even.

Your weapon is a keyboard.

They need a term for that.

The Hill Billy

Santa Claus is still alive & well in the Billy household tradition. Which is more than can be said for the puppy that Santy was supposedly bringing to my two kids today. Keeping him in a box in the shed for the past few weeks turned out not to be the best of ideas.

Anyway, I rebranded the present as Schrödinger's Puppy. You should have seen their little faces light up this morning. Well, 50% of them.

The Hill Billy

The Hill Billy wrote: »

Santa Claus is still alive & well in the Billy household tradition. Which is more than can be said for the puppy that Santy was supposedly bringing to my two kids today. Keeping him in a box in the shed for the past few weeks turned out not to be the best of ideas.

Anyway, I rebranded the present as Schrödinger's Puppy. You should have seen their little faces light up this morning. Well, 50% of them.

I can imagine it. And I can't imagine it.

Saipanne

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

You're a hero. A warrior even.

Your weapon is a keyboard.

They need a term for that.

A keyboard hero.

learn_more

But if you have a black santa AND a white one, won't even the kids twig that one of them can't be real.

Anyway, how could santa be black when he originates/lives in the f*uckin NORTH POLE. Ever seen a black eskimo?

Saipanne

learn_more wrote: »

But if you have a black santa AND a white one, won't even the kids twig that one of them can't be real.

Anyway, how could santa be black when he originates/lives in the f*uckin NORTH POLE. Ever seen a black eskimo?

Is Santa non-binary?