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  • Ann Althouse: Taking a ridiculous racial issue and making it more ridiculous.

    12/15/2013 3:05:40 PM PST · by EveningStar · 23 replies
    Althouse ^ | December 13, 2013 | Ann Althouse
    For some reason — ratings? — Megyn Kelly was on Fox News arguing with some lady who thought Santa Claus should no longer be depicted as a white man ... So here comes Jonathan Merritt in The Atlantic, turning that nugget o' Fox into something that Atlantic readers might find tasty ... Kelly didn't demand "rigidly racial depictions." She was challenging her guest's attempt to turn the usual image of Santa into a racial problem. It's the guest who's yearning to impose the racial template. What's the "serious error" about Santa that Kelly is supposed to have made? None! But...