What a stupid waste of time. If Coke says Santa is white. He is.

Are we really arguing over the skin color of fictional characters? Since they are fictional, even if they are based (remotely) on real people, making them any color at all shouldn't be of concern to an Objectivist with the possible exception of Stewart's comedic rant.

Just for the record: Santa Claus is based on the historical character Saint Nicholas, who was white. Jesus also was white. I do not object to depictions of Jesus by various ethnic and racial groups that depict him as of their own ethnicity or race. Neither do I object to similar depictions of Saint Nicholas. It is a way for a culture or race to absorb the ideals of Jesus or Saint Nicholas and make them their own. However, depicting both as white is not a form of oppression in any way, nor a form of racism.

The Santa lore is Euro-centric in origin and, therefore, he is a white guy. Why must the character be cast any other way? Hollywood is now putting out a movie commemorating Nelson Mandela and is not casting Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp as Mandela. It would be absurd for obvious reasons. It seems the PC police have to trash white males at every opportunity, even mythological good guys like Santa Claus.

I didn’t miss the Megyn Kelly show. She was taken out of context. She was discussing an article in which the writer wrote that maybe it was time for Santa to be black. She made a ‘mommy’ kind of remark that nobody was changing Santa, and he was still white. In hindsight, it was a very awkward joke. (Btw, plenty of young kids are up at ten on a Friday.)
Had you seen the whole segment you would see how absurd the criticism has been. She even offered during the segment for her guest to consider maybe it is offensive or painful to non-white children to have to subjected to the white-Santa commercialism. I don’t think it was worth all the attention it’s getting. Certainly not the kind of attention that suggest she is a bigot. Yet...she really stuck her foot in her mouth on this one, so let the bashing begin.

No wonder nobody takes this country seriously, we waste valuable television time informing our citizens of the race of an imaginary fat man.
Twist on some George Carlin. This is about what I think of Santa though.

http://youtu.be/qt9WNI8LI9M

Overly sensitive or generally whiny people should avoid this.

Hilarious. From the Latin. See Hilary and Hillary.

We do not have tv into the house: no cable, no broadcast, so I do not watch Jon Stewart or Glenn Beck or the other conservative pundits. But this was hilarious. "Isn't that the definition of oppression: just because you are offended, doesn't mean that it has to change." I made a little poster out of that for my wall.

A long time ago, I was on a Federal project and we were closed for Christmas. One my co-workers was a deacon in his church. On our way to lunch, I needled him: "So, what do you think of the separation of Church and State? We have Christmas off." He came right back, "Mike, do you honestly believe that Christmas is a religious holiday?"

This is just another of the divide and set groups against each other method so adored by Marxists such as Alinsky. The groups who have communist roots come in and try to legislate nativity scenes from the landscape via courts.
Who cares if someone feels uncomfortable! Their problem, not mine, their perception. Everyone is uncomfortable with something, but you don't legislate your view of the perfect world. I feel irritatede when WalMart has lines at the check out on Welfare check day. I felt uncomfortable when my former married boss had gay trists in the office when I had to work evenings. I feel uncomfortable when Obama takes over the TV for a news conference, not because of race, but because his hirstory of being ignorant and Marxist. Where do I go to legislate all that away?.
Grow up, everyone will feel uncomfortable at times , and utopia, by definition is a place that cannot exist.
Growing up, we all had heroes who were black or Hispanic or white, it was what they were, and they did not have to look like us for them to be admired by us. I know the same is true across many cultures. Only the politicians and ACLU try to cause problems to divert us from the dastardly deeds, they are doing - and they are of all races and religions! It is time we stopped apologizing for being white or Cherokee, or anything we might be, and accepted we can admire who a person is without making them be politically correct for some self-serving people out to destroy the US..

The only reason I pay a little attention to what John Stewart says is because what he says is inflammatory and creates race, gender, class and age-related, hatred in my (our) society. He needs to be watched, like a rabid dog needs to be watched.

Culture....first get your facts straight..they were two MEN...I do not believe is this PC world we call the Lesbians we call people descriptions of color...why because everything has to be put in a color place...is anyone arguing that MLK was not black?

I don't think Santa being white can be compared to oppression. We now have to change the skin color of fictional characters to appease? Talk about ridiculous.

Who gives a rats ass. Fox news is just part of the NWO. The are owned by a jew and the jews run the system.