Jacoby wrote:
This is stupid, that article on Slate was nothing but click bait and now Fox News is getting in on it too. IIRC the article wanted to replace white Santa with a penguin or something, apparently they don't know penguins only live in the south pole and it couldn't be a Polar Bear for obvious reasons.

People need to get over themselves, believe what they want to believe, and stop whining other people doing the same.
Lol, maybe we can have Penguin Santa in the Southern Hemisphere. It'd make more sense than a guy wearing a woollen suit in mid-summer. I kinda appreciate that she also talked about the facts of Santa to accommodate children ... but it's Fox News: what kids are going to be watching it? Of course, she also said that Jesus was white. I hope that was just an oversight (which happens to all of us) on her part.
ruveyn wrote:
The vast majority of people who lived in the Galil about 2010 years ago would be classified as "white" (non-Asian, non-African)
I don't get it. Are you saying that Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, Indigenous Australians and Native Americans would also be classified as "white"? Or are you saying that Jews in that region back then would have had white skin (which is doubtful)?
Or did you mean something else entirely?
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