The Huffington Post is facing widespread ridicule after posting a video in which it claims the original 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer television special is “problematic,” “bigoted” and offensive.
The animated TV special is much loved and re-broadcast every Christmas, but editors at the Huffington Post were seemingly determined to ruin it.
A video uploaded to Twitter claims that the animation is bigoted and offensive because it portrays Rudolph being “marginalized” and bullied by the other characters.
The holiday TV classic "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" is seriously problematic. ? https://t.co/dOgqPF3bAP
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 29, 2018
The video quotes a blue check mark on Twitter who says Rudolph is a “racist” and “homophobic” parable and another who says “Santa’s operation is….in serious need of diversity and inclusion training.”
The video received a torrent of ridicule, with respondents pointing out that the whole point of the story is that Rudolph rises above marginalization and bullying to thrive against adversity.
“Imagine taking 54 years to figure out that everybody was rude to Rudolph,” said one respondent.
“I think that’s the whole point of the story huffpo…,” replied another.
I think that's the whole point of the story huffpo…
— Nico Sammy G ?? (@NicoSammyG) November 29, 2018
“Wait, so you’re telling me, in as story about overcoming adversity and bullying, the character had to be bullied? YA DON’T SAY!” added another.
Wait, so you're telling me, in as story about overcoming adversity and bullying, the character had to be bullied? YA DON'T SAY!
— Guanglai Kangyi, Age 15 (@Gaunglai_Kangyi) November 29, 2018
“I think The Onion made a fake Huff video and hacked their twitter,” joked another user.
The memes were out in full force.
— JareIT ? ? (@jbreezy1512) November 29, 2018
One respondent sagely pointed out that leftists hate the Rudolph story because it smashes their victim narrative.
“Rudolph is the tale of a marginalised character who truimphs over adversary because of his uniqueness…..the left hate this story, because it undermines the victim narrative,” tweeted @appran.
Rudolph is the tale of a marginalised character who truimphs over adversary because of his uniqueness…..the left hate this story, because it undermines the victim narrative.
— ???????????April (@aprran) November 29, 2018
Post-modernists will truly never be happy until every historical piece of art, TV, cinema or music has been poisoned by their cult dogma, but the backlash is more vociferous than ever.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be a fag dentist.
I’m fairly certain that the business model of HuffPo is to generate page views to increase their advertising rates. They aren’t a news site and this isn’t journalism, it’s a version of Bruce Jenner family business model. They don’t give a damn if you like them or hate them as long as you click into their homepage. This is an example of how they outsmart the smart guys.
What’s next from these clowns? Does Santa need to be an overweight, tattooed, body-pierced, transsexual, Puerto Rican to be acceptable to the snowflakes.
Wow! Just, Wow!
Reminded me of something I saw over the Thanksgiving Holiday about the annual airing of the Peanuts Thanksgiving special.
Speechless!
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Great minds think alike.
If people had paid attention to the Thanksgiving cartoon, the girl at the front of the cartoon has a folding chair, not a dining chair like the rest, and the black kid has an outside folding chair. Apparently, they ran out of inside chairs. Also, there’s an empty place setting next to the black kid, meaning someone didn’t show up and take their place. Just saying.
in ‘Murika today EVERYTHING is racist!!!
There was an article this past Thanksgiving in the NY Post about Charlie Brown being a …….. RAYCISSS!!
Why? Because of this image below … (cuz the kneegrow is segregated from the rest of the gang)
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FUBAR
Why was Lucy excluded? She could have ‘splained it all for 5 cents in fees.
Maybe Lucy was the one missing at the place setting next to Franklin.
Here is a Milly dickhead (his last name is “Dicks”, really) snowflake spelling it out in more detail.
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7 serious problems with the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer television special
As well as the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer television special holds up after 50 years (I still adore it), there are admittedly some serious problems with the special in relation to modern day norms that I noticed while watching the special with my family last night.
1. Yukon Cornelius carries a gun and a knife throughout the episode.
While I think that the gun (and probably the knife) are poor choices for a children’s television special, the savvy viewer is also left wondering why Yukon Cornelius doesn’t simply shoot the Abominable Snow Monster that is about to devour his friends.
2. There is massive, pervasive, long-term, adult-sponsored bullying of Rudolph by Santa Claus, Comet and his many reindeer friends.
3. Rudolph’s father, Donner, at various points in the special rejects his son based upon his physical appearance and inflicts serious psychological abuse upon him.
4. Donner’s relationship to his wife is overtly misogynistic. She barely speaks throughout the special, is told by her husband to stay home rather than engaging in “man’s work” and doesn’t have a say in the naming of her son.
5. Although female and male reindeer grow equal sized antlers in real life, the female reindeer in the special are capable of only growing tiny nubs instead of full sided antlers, which strikes me as fairly sexist and consistent with the misogyny that is pervasive throughout the special.
6. The female rag doll on the Island of Misfit Toys has no discernible misfit problem, leaving the viewer to wonder why she is on the island at all.
Incidentally, the problem was revealed in 2007 (43 years after it’s original broadcast) on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! when the producer of the special, Arthur Rankin, said Dolly’s problem was psychological, caused by being abandoned by her mistress and suffering depression from feeling unloved.
Even if this were true, it doesn’t exactly fit a children’s holiday special.
7. Our hero’s solution to the Abominable Snow Monster of the North is to concuss him with a boulder and rip his teeth out of his mouth with a pair of pliers while he is unconscious, thereby eliminating his ability to eat small, woodland creatures.
In a more enlightened age, perhaps the Abominable Snow Monster could have been angry because of a aching cavity or periodontal disease, and once taken care of by Hermey, the elf who wants to be a dentist, he reverts to a more kind and gentle nature.
This would be more humane, more aligned to Hermey’s desire to help people through dentistry and considerably more child-friendly than yanking out the monster’s teeth while he is unconscious.
http://www.matthewdicks.com/matthewdicksblog/2013/12/problems-reindeer-television.html
Fucking ignorant assholes…..
In other non-news news,
Traci Redford said she was boarding a Southwest Airlines flight home to El Paso, Texas, with her 5-year-old daughter when she overheard an airline employee mocking the little girl’s name, Abcde (pronounced ab-city). Now the airline has apologized to the mom and daughter in a public statement.
The incident occurred at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif., according to news affiliate ABC7 in Los Angeles. The Redfords were preboarding — as they usually do because Abcde is epileptic — when the Southwest Airlines gate agent started laughing and pointing at the child and making fun of her unique name to fellow airline employees. “I turned around and said, ‘Hey, if I can hear you, my daughter can hear you, so I’d appreciate if you’d just stop,’” Redford told said.
Redford said her daughter was within ear shot and asked her, “‘Mom, why is she laughing at my name?’” according to ABC 7. “I said, ‘You know, honey, not everybody is nice. And not everyone’s gonna be nice, and it’s unfortunate,’”.
So, if later she has a son, will she name him something like, Qwerty?
Qwerty is a fine name. If I had it to do again, I’d probably name my son Qwerty.
“The incident occurred at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif., according to news affiliate ABC7 in Los Angeles.”
ABC7 pronounced ‘Abcis Evan’
I wondered when that might come up… now they shall have to sue themselves.
Let’s take on Frosty the Snowman now, okay?
Snowman? That’s shows your gender bias.
Nice…see everyone can play the #offended game.
busted
https://www.wate.com/news/local-news/who-stabbed-frosty-suspect-caught-on-video-stabbing-inflatable-at-pigeon-forge-hotel/1622756692
Snow “people” are racist today because they’re white.
Who fucking cares?
Is Huffpo available in fluffy 2-ply rolls?
Good one! Haha
“She thinks I’m cuuuutttte! She thinks I’m cuuuutttte!”
The poor deer. He might as well find a doe that hates him and buy her burrow where she’ll get more bang from a buck.
http://savejames.com/
James is a 6 year old boy – his mother is attempting to change his gender
James prefers to be a boy, but since the age of 3, his mother has chosen to dress him as a girl, and call him by the name “Luna”
She has enrolled him in school as a girl. He is currently in 1st grade. The teachers and administrators know that he is a boy, but the other parents and students are unaware
He is undergoing “social transitioning” therapy to prepare him for chemical castration at age 8
James’ father, Jeff is fighting to protect his son all alone
His mother has support and financial backing
Jeff needs both financial help with legal fees and help networking to find expert witnesses who will help him keep his son safe
The court is requiring Jeff to pay for transgender therapy and the future sexual mutilation of his son
Courts have enjoined Jeff from dressing James as a boy at school, from teaching him that he is a boy, and from sharing religious teachings on sexuality and gender
He has been accused of ABUSE for saying that his son is a boy
This one is all fucked up
Father should cap the psychopathic ex-wife
All that snow is too white.
More insanity.
Don’t like it, don’t read it douche bags!