Jingle Bells Declared Racist

Calm down Cindy, no ones gonna break into your home and steal your Christmas decorations. This is sensationalism at play like it is 99% of the time.

The song originally wasn't even about Christmas, the lyrics changed over time because the original author meant it as a dedication to another singer who had a troupe that performed in blackface. It wasn't even a Christmas song. Originally, the person who wrote the song was a staunch supporter of the confederacy that fiercely opposed his father who was an minster and a major abolitionist against slavery.

https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-jingle-bells

His other notable songs were:

We Conquer or Die!
Strike for the South!
Our Battle Flag!

*Note I didn't put the exclamation marks there, they were already part of the song title.

And other racist songs that ended in "!!!!!!!" to further highlight how passionate he was about forcing black people to do work white people were too fat and lazy to do. The guy who wrote it was a piece of crap, abandoning his wife and his kids to go chase gold, by the time he made it back, he was as poor as when he first started. Believe it or not, he left plenty of females and almost certainly had daddy issues. He was such a loser.

At any rate, no one is forcing you "not" to listen to the song, I can turn on the radio and find it. You're going to be okay, breathe.. it will be fine. You'll live to see another day tomorrow, I promise it will be okay. Starbucks coffee cups changing is okay too, Starbucks will still be there, it's okay, I promise. Don't freak out, you're fine.

Jingle Bells is offensive and folks can make music about slappin hoes and hoes lickin my balls and its all good. This world is crazy.

Yes, Rudolph was red-nosed because he was an alcoholic.

It will stop when Kaepernick is hired to play for an NFL team, you disgusting hypocrite.

just wait until somebody thinks about "white christmas"

Unbelievable! The woke crowd can't see past the nose on their face
For good reason

Leftists want to destroy any and all American traditions. America needs to take their influence on our children away from them.

If libs were truely bothered by racisim they would stop telling kids they were racist.

The denial from the left, is so predictable

Sigh…and if people are going to trivialize racism with this kind of stuff, why should people take the real thing seriously ?

You can find extreme examples of anything if you look hard enough. I'm a leftist and I don't think it is racist and neither does anyone I know. For example: how many schools are there in New York? In a pool of thousands, you can always find a fish that swims in a mockable way.

The website you are quoting from looks very partisan and right-wing. It's not using representative samples to criticise its opponents.

Just makes me want to sing it more. I’m not giving in to this crap.

Average "journalist" - *writes article with the dumbest, most deceptive, most sensationalist (when not blatantly false) title*

Average rightwinger, in response: "OMG these damn leftists 😠😠"



Can we just stop this nonsense, or?

The whole world has gone insane..

Jingle bells jingle bels, grampa smells, granny got a gun, shot a nigg%$ in the ass look at granny run.

[c=800000]It is to the point where no one takes any of this nonsense seriously. If something is uncovered that is legitimately deemed to be racist, no one is going to pay attention. [/c]

Wtf these idiots need to grow up seriously

It's the word association game that toddlers play.
"A sleigh?! That's traveling in the snow. Snow is white. I hate all things white! It's racist!" or
"Sleighs are pulled by horses. They use whips to motivate the horse. Whips were used in slavery. Racist!"
Enter any given daycare and you'll hear this mental exercise.

The War on Christmas continues

Dashing through t[b][c=008099][/c][/b]he snow[b][c=008099] holy crap snow is white[/c][/b]
Over the feilds we go [b][c=008099]omg they are talking about the cotton plantation feilds [/b]
Making spirits bright [b]are they suggesting they bleach their skin[/c][/b]
Jingle bells
This song smells
Racist fails
Your all going to hell

It was written by a confederate officer apparently. That’s enough to get something banned these days.

Rudolph is a popular name for black males, so yes! And the only way jingle bells could have been more racist is if Santa drove a big Cadillac. 😂

There is nothing racist in the lyrics. Just because someone, at some point, sang the song in Black Face, doesn't make the song racist. They're grabbing at straws on this one.

"Before one can come up with a comical take on their worldview, some learned professor has already written a paper on the subject"

Holiday Carols are annoying and most need to go away...however calling things racist might not be a hill I wanna die on.

Oh geez!!! What else can these idiots find to cry about now!! I’m so damn tired of all this sensitivity bullshit!

I hope the principle steps into traffic there in NY. People are really being ridiculous with waking up. 🤦🏻‍♀️

probably due to the ridiculous woke movement, it's spreading like a disease.

If you don't give it any attention, it won't be a thing. Chill out.

Lol. A thin blue line opinion blog that seems to exist to tell right wingers what to be afraid of and what to get outraged about? Seems legit. 🤣

So stupid. I can’t take the insanity anymore

I'm a lot more concerned about "Brown Sugar" by the Stones, a song whose lyrics I had never read or understood before. I'm through with that one.

I can’t take anymore of these idiots. Why don’t they just declare everything in existence “racist,” and be done with it. Next thing, “ the moon is racist” or some other absurd claim. The lunatics are running the asylum.

Idk why people are condemning you for making this post when a school literally banned singing a Christmas song.

Everything is just about racist if you look hard enough. I am sick to death ☠️ of people playing the race card

Everything is called "racist" these days, even if it's not to do with race at all!

Horrible. I will quote from your link:

[quote]This is of course ridiculous. The only ones that would be triggered by such a song are people who are looking to get triggered. But this is the world we live in.[/quote]

What I meant was:

[quote]This is of course ridiculous. The only ones that would be triggered by the removal of a song, [b][i][u]from a single elementary school recital[/u][/i][/b]l are people who are looking to get triggered. But this is the world we live in.[/quote]

It's all out of control. No one can sit down and have a serious discussion on how to include everyone in life, no matter what "color" they are.😔

These morons need to do their research. 150 years ago was already the post Civil War/reconstruction Era. After the Civil War, minstrel shows began losing their popularity because they were already seemed as racist by the public. They were starting to be replaced by Vaudeville and Buffalo Bill Wild West shows. Also, record keeping of actual minstrel shows was pretty poor back then.

Its the liberal NY democreats with their new woke culture.
Its such a shame

A minority of nutcases trying to influence everything and everyone, the majority who aren’t mental

What's next? Changing the title to, [u]I'm Dreaming of a Privileged Christmas[/u]?

Well, Rudolph is colorist, he only glows red... what about the rest of the colors?

Naturally, people, especially in America, tend to live in the moment and, given the “crisis” orientation of our media outlets, they tend to generalize and sensationalize bullshit stories like the one above. And the media feeds off of it, because they know every bubble-headed person who has access to the internet will eat it up.

But for the sake of it, I promise nobody is trying to ban Jingle Bells from being sung.

These woke people snare nuts and they need to be stopped

https://fallacyinlogic.com/cherry-picking/

Just leaving this here. Meanwhile, I'm canceling Rudolf for not being woke enough.

😜