From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to All on Friday, January 14, 2022 18:06:00
Right-Wing Lie of the Day 0015
"Jesus was a white man, too. It's like we have, he's a historical figure
that's a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?" -- Megyn Kelly
For those who don't know yet, Santa Claus isn't real. He's loosely based on a monk who lived in Turkey. The modern imagery of Santa Claus is largely due to Coca-Cola advertizing. Prior to that, he was depicted in a variety of forms, including as a gnome.
Jesus was a Middle-Eastern Jew and many scholars think that Middle-Eastern people of the Roman era looked much like what people of Middle-Eastern
descent look like today.
This lie was nothing short of a racist temper-tantrum.