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Breaking News! Santa is a white man...so is Jesus!

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I want to see a few Latino/Asian/Native American/<insert more races> Santa Clauses or Jesuses right away or else.


<faux outrage and rage, yo>

😀
 
HumblePie said:
Actually, the reason for white skin in Europe is mostly scientifically hypothesized to be do a lack of vitamin D in the diet of those in the area. Lack of food sources with vitamin D, and the low level of sun light to product it means humans that lived typically had less melanin to produce enough vitamin D from absorbing as much sunlight as possible. People in other places that far north, like those zinfamous listed, managed to keep their melanin by having diets high in vitamin D.
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Yeah, funny thing--our Indian grad student was recently diagnosed as Vitamin D deficient after spending the last 1.5 years in Switzerland. :hmm:
 
zinfamous said:
I wonder what the Inuits, Syberians, and Mongolians that live around and within the arctic circle have to say about this?

:hmm:
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zinfamous said:
Yeah, funny thing--our Indian grad student was recently diagnosed as Vitamin D deficient after spending the last 1.5 years in Switzerland. :hmm:
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Low light levels and food sources that are low in Vitamin D means you need to have pale skin to survive as well. Although in high sunlight areas pale skin tends to burn easier.
 
You people totally missed the point of the woman's article. No surprise there. Hell, she even clarified the purpose of her article.
 
Well, Colbert agrees with Megan Kelly.
Colbert said on Thursday's Colbert Report that he couldn't agree more.

"Just look at any photo of Jesus. He was just your average, Aramaic speaking, first century, Middle Eastern white guy," he said. "The only evidence I need are the sacred Dockers of Turin."


Colbert said there were practical reasons there coudn't be a black Santa.


"If a homeowner in Florida sees a black man coming down their chimney, he is going to get shot: 'Officer, I was just defending my milk and cookies,'" he said.


Besides, he asked, how could Santa change his race? "Santa can't just change colors. It's not like he's magic or anything," Colbert noted.
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http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=843473
 
Wreckem said:
Caucasian doesn't necessarily mean white as used in popular vernaculer. Arabs and Persians are also Caucasian and most ordinary people do not consider them to be white. Jesus would have been dark tan in color. Not fair skinned as is the popular portrayal. As pointed out the original origins of Santa Claus would have him the same way. Santa claus is turkish in origin. Basically the popular portrayal of both Jesus and Santa Claus are completely wrong wrong. They are Caucasian but both would have very dark tan complexions.
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white isn't white either. As a white guy, white has nothing to do with complexion, it means Caucasian.

btw, Santa isn't Turkish. Kris comes from lots of places.
 
tweaker2 said:
Yeh, I remember as a little kid looking at all of those pictures of Jesus in those bible study pamphlets, brochures and weekly sermon programs and I do recall some of them had Jesus with blonde hair, some with brunette and a few with black hair. But in every one of them Jesus was plainly pictured as a caucasian. It wasn't until I grew up a little more that I was told he was a middle easterner and more than likely looked like a typical middle easterner.
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That's Aryan Jesus. Jewish Jesus came to die for your sins and make you right with G-d. Aryan Jesus came to arrange the meeting - unless he judges you worthy to be Russian cannon fodder. Jewish Jesus walked; Aryan Jesus rode dinosaurs.

And Mexican Jesus came to outwork them both and thereby get the hell out of Mexico.

Theb said:
I've never liked Santa Claus. My mom says I've always hated him and she could never get me to pose for a picture with him.

I do like penguins though...

Given the amount of time penguins spend in the sea would Aquaman be able to control Penguin Santa? I need to know the answer to this before I'm ready to have a serious discussion.
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Creepy old fat man in a pimp suit who wants you to sit on his lap and hold his candy cane? What's not to love?

Penguins suck. They have fish breath, and flightless bird? What's the point? Like a fish that can't swim.

SheHateMe said:
You people totally missed the point of the woman's article. No surprise there. Hell, she even clarified the purpose of her article.
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We didn't miss it, we're just pointing out that it's stupid.
 
"Why God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat"

I have only one firm belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle aged male, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men accountable for their actions. He has little apparent concern for the material well being of the disadvantaged. He is politically connected, socially powerful and holds the mortgage on literally everything in the world. God is difficult. God is unsentimental. It is very hard to get into God's heavenly country club.

Santa Claus is another matter. He's cute. He's nonthreatening. He's always cheerful. And he loves animals. He may know who's been naughty and who's been nice, but he never does anything about it. He gives everyone everything they want without the thought of quid pro quo. He works hard for charities, and he's famously generous to the poor. Santa Claus is preferable to God in every way but one: There is no such thing as Santa Claus.

P.J. O'Rourke
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werepossum said:
We didn't miss it, we're just pointing out that it's stupid.
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Are you sure? Because so far I don't think one person has actually addressed it.

Hint: The point isn't "We need Santas of all races because it's not PC otherwise!" like people seem to be jumping to assume.
 
BoomerD said:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrkKL45qB0Q
 
Tom said:
white isn't white either. As a white guy, white has nothing to do with complexion, it means Caucasian.
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White is completely different from Caucasian. White originally meant that you are of Anglo-Saxon descent.

Over the years in the U.S however, it's meaning has been broadened to include anyone of European descent; but not other Caucasian people like Iranians, Indians, Semites etcetera..

Honestly, terms like white, black etcetera have no concrete meaning whatsoever and are completely arbitrary.

Caucasian itself is also another apocryphal term with no concrete meaning. The entire race category system is absolutely nonsensical from a Scientific perspective.
 
Carfax83 said:
White originally meant that you are of Anglo-Saxon descent.

Over the years in the U.S however, it's meaning has been broadened to include anyone of European descent; but not other Caucasian people like Iranians, Indians, Semites etcetera..
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Ha ha, yeah. The less PC Brits consider the French and Italian to be "wogs", and not really in the same "white" racial category as them.
 
Santa Claus can be anything you want him to be since he's not real but if we go by Saint Nicholas than Santa Claus would at best be brown.
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