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- Hi, it's me, Adam. Well, a couple of weeks ago I told you guys that I got woke and I wasn't kidding.
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- I really wasn't kidding. I am totally woke. Anyway, so I was watching
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- Rudolph the Red -Nosed Ranger with my sons this weekend and, you know, I noticed things that I've noticed many times in the past that this is a problematic movie.
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- And I went online to see if anyone else was talking about this. And lo and behold, HuffPost, the best news source that I can think of, was actually talking about this already.
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- And so I'm glad that somebody has the courage to use their platform and their space to talk about what
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- I think is a very serious problem. So let's watch this video together, let's talk about it, and hopefully they hit the points that I was thinking of.
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- But there's one thing in particular that I think is just very problematic, especially if you are going to be a gospel -centered person, a woke
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- Christian. Let's just listen. Let's just see what we have to say. I mean, yeah, he was marginalized.
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- I agree with that. But that's not the worst thing. Let's see if they get it. Rudolph the Red -Nosed
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- Ranger is a holiday classic that returns to TV each holiday season. But lately viewers are noticing the tale might not be so jolly after all.
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- And they're sharing their observations online. That's what I wanted to do. It's actually worse than that, to be perfectly honest with you.
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- Because what I noticed, this is not the worst thing, but this is something I definitely noticed. If you look at that workshop that he has with the elves and Herbie and then like the head elf and all the people singing,
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- I mean, it looks like a Hitler Youth Rally. I mean, look at it. Everyone's got blonde hair and blue eyes. And they're just all,
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- I mean, seriously, look at a Hitler Youth Rally and then look at the toy shop in Rudolph the
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- Red -Nosed Reindeer and tell me there's a difference. Diversity inclusion training.
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- Yeah, that's true. He's right about that. Dave's right about that. Oh, no, Rudolph's father verbally abuses him.
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- Self -respect. Yeah, that is problematic. I would completely agree. I mean, verbal abuse cannot be tolerated in the
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- Christian church. And honestly, one thing I've learned is that spiritual abusers are always white and the spiritually abused are always people of color.
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- And lo and behold, Rudolph is a deer of color, at least his nose is.
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- I don't think that's an accident. That's very problematic. Yeah, he does.
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- That's true. Donner, you should be ashamed of yourself. He's Hitler, basically. From now on, gang, we won't let
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- Rudolph join in any reindeer games, right? This is man's work.
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- No, this is man's work. Yeah, dig it.
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- Now, there's one thing I want to make very plain. No doe of mine is going to be seen with a red -nosed reindeer.
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- A reindeer of color. Here's the Hitler Youth Rally. Check it out. You'll never fit in.
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- Now, you come to health practice, learn how to wiggle your ears and chuckle warmly and go hee -hee and ho -ho and important stuff like that.
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- A dentist. Good grief. You notice he's shunned because he befriends the reindeer of color.
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- And this is basically like all of you heroic white folks out there that are on the side of anti -racism and never trumping and all of that.
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- You guys are heroes, but you're going to be shunned by society at large. I mean, that's obviously happening already.
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- Well, they kind of missed it, to be honest. This is the most problematic part. And you Christians out there, you woke
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- Christians, I want you to listen up. This is the most problematic part of this movie. Even HuffPost didn't get this.
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- But I'm woke, so I got it. Anyway, the most problematic part of the movie is if you notice at the end,
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- Santa, he needs Rudolph because he can't get through the fog in order to deliver the
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- Christmas presents to all the white kids out there. And so he asks Rudolph to lead his sled.
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- And Rudolph doesn't hesitate. He says it would be an honor to. And that's the most problematic part of the movie.
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- Because that's not how we're supposed to do this. Because that's not truth telling. That's ignoring the past.
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- And we can't do that. In fact, we need to make sure that Santa repents before we allow him to come back into the fold.
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- In other words, he has to change his ways. In fact, he has to probably give money to the colored reindeer fund.
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- And he has to probably make some financial restitution to Rudolph himself. Because after all, his racism caused
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- Rudolph to miss many years of work by going into the wilderness and things like that. And Rudolph is not an example to be followed.
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- This is problematic, Christians. This is problematic. No. No. The Bible does not say you have to accept
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- Sahara. The Bible does not say you have to be part of the white man's church. In other words, what you should do if you were
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- Rudolph, this is the problematic. Because look, the story itself tries to make it seem like the racism is wrong.
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- And yeah, we all agree racism is wrong. But the real problem here is the lesson. Rudolph does it wrong. He just forgives
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- Santa and doesn't bring it up again. And he doesn't hold it over his head. He just joins him and helps him out. No.
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- No. No, Christians. No. No. No. What you need to do is you need to bring it up every day.
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- Have conferences about it. Make them repent. Make them pay. Because nothing is more enabling to a spiritual abuser than for you to just forgive.
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- Seventy times seven. Look, you can forgive once they repent adequately enough to your satisfaction.
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- Don't follow Rudolph. He was too easy on Santa. Santa got away with abuse.
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- And my beloved brothers, you can't let these white folks get away with that abuse.
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- So don't take a lesson from Rudolph the red -nosed reindeer. He forgave without requiring much in return.
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- And we don't have to do that. You do not have to accept the sorry. So that's why Rudolph is problematic.
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- I was reading the Catechism to my sons and I noticed that this is the first Catechism book.
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- You know, very simple questions and answer. You know, I'm going through with my sons and I noticed that the kid on the front is white.
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- And so I was like, oh, this is just another example of white supremacy. I mean, look, image matters. Depictions matter. And then, you know,
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- I was getting really upset. But then I noticed in the back that, you know, there's plenty of differences. I mean, we've got some white kids here and there's a black kid.
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- She's either Latina or she's Asian. I can't really tell. It's hard to say. But anyway, there they are.
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- You know, it's not just white kids. But then I saw what was really going on. You notice the difference between this and these?
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- Look at these kids. Beautiful faces and well -proportioned, nice eyes.
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- And then look at this one. It's an alien. This is alien supremacy in this catechism.
