“Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?â€
― Chris Rock
As much as I hate Chris Rock’s comedic sense he has a valid point. As I was walking around the clearance section for Halloween candy in Target I noticed just around the corner they had already set up the Christmas section, trees, lights, music, and even had some space for that made-up holiday, Hanukah.
Anyways as I collected my prize candy from the lot I strolled around the Christmas section to look at all the silly things they had this year…and as most of it was generic bulbs, lights etc,. Something had caught my attention, it was the sound of music…more importantly it was a specific song that was playing. The song that was playing was Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and while I had heard this song for years something about it bothered me this time, it was the part about Rudolph getting teased by the other reindeer for his red nose. So I thought about it and collected the food I needed and went home to look-up the lyrics to this hateful song and I was not disappointed.
From what I can tell this song (and the 60’s movie) reflects a number of negative influences that if were created this year would have never seen the light of day. Some of the negative influences like:
Prejudice: The other reindeer hating Rudolph for the color of his nose
Discrimination: The other reindeer not letting Rudolph play with them on “reindeer gamesâ€, hell even the father in the movie didn’t want Rudolph embarrassing him by going out with his red nose.
Opportunism: When Santa’s dumbass couldn’t see because of the blizzard he needed someone “with a nose so bright†so he finally let Rudolph in the club (used him).
Shallowness: When he was finally accepted by Santa (alpha apparently) the other reindeer loved Rudolph and were “cheering with gleeâ€
This song teaches kids that it’s not okay to be different BUT if someone really cool finally accepts you then everything will be okay. Ugh.
TL;DR – Fuck you, read it.