Comments on: Modern-Day Santas Need to Watch Their Backs http://patterico.com/2007/12/16/modern-day-santas-need-to-watch-their-backs/ Harangues that just make sense Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:58:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: DWPittelli http://patterico.com/2007/12/16/modern-day-santas-need-to-watch-their-backs/#comment-307931 DWPittelli Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:10:49 +0000 http://patterico.com/2007/12/16/modern-day-santas-need-to-watch-their-backs/#comment-307931 I would like to point out that the "green" Santa is not as aberrant as might seem to be the case. In the 19th Century, Santa wasn't always wearing red, and was sometimes seen in a green outfit otherwise similar to today's "traditional" red one. Santa now exclusively wears red in large part because red is the color of Coca-Cola advertising, and Coca-Cola has printed a lot of advertisements with the red-clad Santa. (To be sure, red was among the colors seen earlier, and used by Thomas Nast when he was not, as he usually was, working in black and white, but prior to the Coca-Cola series, red was not the only color used.) All that said, I don't approve of using children's iconic figures to indoctrinate them in environmentalism, or any ideology. I would like to point out that the “green” Santa is not as aberrant as might seem to be the case. In the 19th Century, Santa wasn’t always wearing red, and was sometimes seen in a green outfit otherwise similar to today’s “traditional” red one.

Santa now exclusively wears red in large part because red is the color of Coca-Cola advertising, and Coca-Cola has printed a lot of advertisements with the red-clad Santa. (To be sure, red was among the colors seen earlier, and used by Thomas Nast when he was not, as he usually was, working in black and white, but prior to the Coca-Cola series, red was not the only color used.)

All that said, I don’t approve of using children’s iconic figures to indoctrinate them in environmentalism, or any ideology.

]]> By: Another Drew http://patterico.com/2007/12/16/modern-day-santas-need-to-watch-their-backs/#comment-307840 Another Drew Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:39:25 +0000 http://patterico.com/2007/12/16/modern-day-santas-need-to-watch-their-backs/#comment-307840 Well, under Shariah, we won't have to worry about this. Well, under Shariah, we won’t have to worry about this.

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://patterico.com/2007/12/16/modern-day-santas-need-to-watch-their-backs/#comment-307821 David Ehrenstein Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:55:42 +0000 http://patterico.com/2007/12/16/modern-day-santas-need-to-watch-their-backs/#comment-307821 Someone should link in an MP3 of David Sedaris' <i>The Santaland Diaries</i>. Someone should link in an MP3 of David Sedaris’ The Santaland Diaries.

]]>