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Krampus
« on: December 15, 2013, 09:36:14 am »
Seems to be popular with anti Christmas crowd. He's kinda come out of nowhere in the last 5 years or less. I know he's been around forever and blah blah blah, but... It's really become a thing these days. I liked it at first when I saw it a couple of years ago. An interesting alternative, but now that it's gotten so big so fast It has made me suspicious.
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Re: Krampus
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2013, 12:09:15 am »
since santa doesnt visit poor kids whose parents cant afford to buy gifts, does that mean that krampus doesnt visit kids whose parents dont punish them?
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Re: Krampus
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2013, 02:43:04 pm »
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Re: Krampus
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2013, 05:36:33 pm »
I only know about krampus from when dwight schrute portrayed him on the office. I didn't know it existed outside of that. Until today, that is.
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Re: Krampus
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2013, 04:24:31 am »
On the topic of Yuletide dudes from other times and places:

A local government official in my city recently got in a lot of shit for having his picture taken with a dude in 'blackface.' His defence (and a semi-valid one, I think) was that he was in the Netherlands posing with Black Pete, Saint Nick's cute n' cuddly Moorish slave!

To be fair to all cultures that celebrate it, though, Christmas is just damn weird.
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Re: Krampus
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2013, 04:48:42 am »
It's always weird how Americans don't know how to deal with racism in other cultures. It's like "wait, but in this culture, it's normal to do this racist thing. So if I don't do it, am I disrespecting their culture?" No, just follow the normal rules of morality and you will be fine.
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Re: Krampus
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2013, 07:32:27 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on December 17, 2013, 04:48:42 am
It's always weird how Americans don't know how to deal with racism in other cultures. It's like "wait, but in this culture, it's normal to do this racist thing. So if I don't do it, am I disrespecting their culture?" No, just follow the normal rules of morality and you will be fine.

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Re: Krampus
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2013, 01:44:07 pm »
We should put this here for anyone who came in late.
http://yoisthisracist.com/

I don't know anything about Krampus except that my friends at Archie McPhee are into it. This looks like it was fun:
http://geyserofawesome.com/post/69981491067/the-2013-krampusfest-previously-featured-here-is
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