LogFAQs > #931121756

Diversity is a good thing. I harp on how so many of Hollywood's movies' idea of strong female characters is this on-the-nose, "Hold up, stronk womyn comin' thru" approach, but I do appreciate that there are more opportunities for women and better characters than what there used to be. I'm glad that we have more movies with an ethnic minority focus. I've no complaints in that area. (And thank you for keeping Shaft as Richard Roundtree even if his family carry on the name for him. No remakes here. Just continuation.)

But it seems silly to get upset about someone claiming that Santa, as a character, is white. You know what the difference is between Superman and Santa? We don't tell our children that Superman is real. If the new Superman is black, the new Superman is black. If Santa is black, that's like telling children that Mr. Rogers is black or that John F. Kennedy was black. That is unless you're willing to admit to them that Santa might not be as real as previously reported.

If you treat Santa as a full-fledged fictional character, and that's how you raise your kids from the start, that's fine. But don't rain on somebody else's parade because they want solidarity in this conspiracy to say that a magical philanthropist figure is a white male.

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