Why did so many cartoons in the 90s act like Kwanzaa was celebrated by more than 10 people?

Why did so many cartoons in the 90s act like Kwanzaa was celebrated by more than 10 people?

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Rugrats did a lot of off-beat holiday specials that no one else would ever do. A Kwanzaa special was nothing.

A Hanukah special? A PASSOVER special? Who the fuck asked for those?

Jews?

what the hell is kwanzaa

What's with the Satanic mask? What kind of holiday is this?

>A Hanukah special? A PASSOVER special? Who the fuck asked for those?
I (((wonder)))

Nigger Christmas

I would actually hazard that significantly more people celebrate Hanukkah and Passover than Kwanzaa, despite there being more black people in America than there are Jews in the entire world. Fucking nobody celebrates Kwanzaa.

What does that mean? Santa breaks in and takes the presents?

Harambe day

>Passover special

Christians read the Old Testament user. Passover is basically the most Christian friendly Jewish story ever.

Come to think of it, I don't remember them doing an Easter special.

It was to perpetuate the idea that everyone celebrated a holiday around the winter seasons, allowing companies and advertisers to focus their efforts on one season and maximize profits.

Bill Clinton and the liberals of the time just wanted to feel good about themselves while creating a prison system so massive that something like 1/5 black men will end up in jail at some point in their lifetimes. Of course the existence of this system championed by champagne socialists just gives them more stuff to feel good about when they use it as an opportunity to protest the very system they created, just like how only liberals wear "tribal tattoos" and only liberals complain about white people wearing "tribal tattoos".

Never ending self-fellatio over being aware of problems created by oneself.

Kwanza is haram.

>no orange plastic
Disgusting.

harambe day is an actual holiday in swahili culture funny enough. i celebrate that yet not kwanzaa

This.

It's basically the equivalent of taking superficial nonsense from all over Asia and calling it Chingchong Day.

Yes
It reminds how the white man steaks everything from us people of color and instead of coal for bad kids, good kids get a criminal record.

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The currency of Angola.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_kwanza

I wish this was an exaggeration.

Actually no I don't, it's funnier this way.

Coloured people?

This one actually made a lot of sense given Tommy's maternal grandparents were both Jewish, meaning by extension Tommy was ethnically Jewish.

>instead of coal for bad kids
bad black kids get dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night by krampus?

People of color, you dumb sissy white boi

So coloured people.

I remember one, but as "chocolate eggs and giant bunny" and not the death of jesus christ

I'm guessing it gives you the opportunity to make a christmas episode with some novelty.

90s era virtue signaling/half-assed attempt to throw minorities a bone

>white man steaks everything

You know, that doesn't sound that bad, I mean unless your vegan or something.

This post is actually making me wonder something.
Has a non-adult cartoon that's main theme isn't religion ever done an Easter special that prominently featured its religious side? I can think of plenty that have made either passing or explicit references to the religious nature of Christmas, but not Easter.

My sister was friends with a black guy when she was in Highschool - I couldn't comprehend he celebrated Christmas and not Kwanzaa. Cartoons made me think it was something blacks had to celebrate instead of Christmas. I guess that also means I missed the meaning of Christmas, up to that point.

Only a small fringe of specifically American jews celebrate Hanukkah. Still probably more than Kwanzaa but that's like saying more people celebrate Kwanzaa than Festivus.

>decide to read the wikipedia article on Kwanzaa
>literally created in the 60s
>the creator of the holiday BELIEVES 28 million people celebrate it every year
>more recent studies show that the actual number is between 500,000 and 2 million

So the Avatar franchise but as a holyday?

Oh I didn't mean American Jews explicitly, but even then they still probably win out. Looked up the numbers after posting that and apparently Kwanzaa's estimated to be celebrated by about 500,000 - 2 million people a year, while there are ~6.5 million American Jews alone.

Funnily enough they were both made up around the same time in the 60s.

This brings up an excellent point. Why didn't Rugrats or any other 90s cartoon do a Festivus episode?

Festivus was made up in the late 90s.

So? The early 2000s were basically a grace period for 90s runoff. Rugrats didn't end till 2004, they had plenty of time.

>bad black kids get dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night by krampus
if only...

Because Festivus wasn't and really still isn't a real holiday.
That's like asking why cartoons don't make Wookie Life Day episodes.

Why would Rugrats make an entire episode in reference to a contemporary adult sitcom?

Leave the druids out of your ghost fetishism.

Festivus is more important than your stupid Star Wars bullshit.
Because it entered mainstream culture and became a real holiday?

>Because it entered mainstream culture and became a real holiday?

Uh... I don't recall seeing a special on Festivus poles at Walmart last year. Or any year.

>Festivus is more important than your stupid Star Wars bullshit.
That's really not saying much, it's probably less celebrated than fucking Towel Day,
>Because it entered mainstream culture and became a real holiday?
Nigga what? Have your parents playing a practical joke on you since you were a child? Nobody celebrates Festivus except a half dozen secular jews.

That's because Festivus isn't about the same bullshit commercialism Christmas has become.
It's easy to say "no one" celebrates Festivus like you could say "no one" celebrates Kwanza, but the truth is that there are people out there who celebrate holidays other than the ones you know from their commercial advertisements constantly being pushed upon you.

>Druids
That's a catholic

This post feels surreal.

>It's easy to say "no one" celebrates Festivus like you could say "no one" celebrates Kwanza, but the truth is that there are people out there who celebrate holidays other than the ones you know from their commercial advertisements constantly being pushed upon you.
Right, and "no one" was obviously hyperbole, given that I said right after that it's practiced by a half-dozen secular jews (which is also hyperbole). I obviously mean very few people celebrate it, certainly less than the reported 500k-2mio celebrating Kwanzaa,
If you have figures that prove that it's a holiday celebrated by more than a couple of enthusiasts of a piece of media (like Life Day or Towel Day), then maybe I'll agree it's a "real holiday".

Back to your original question, can you name holidays that were made up in media (mostly) as a joke that get cartoon episodes specifically about them?
Because I can't. It's really not unique to your pet favorite one.

Only American Jews celebrate Hanukah? So Israeli Jews don't observe it?

Huh. Didn't know that.

Yes. Imagine if they took Avatar as a holiday and claimed it represented ancient traditions from Asia.

I've literally never heard of festivus, what postmodernistic nonsense have you come up with this time?

Not sure what you mean user but Capirotes are a staple of old traditional Catholicism.

I'm sure most people would buy that, they seem to believe it's the case for the show already.

Jesus celebrated it in the new testament.

Clinton based propaganda to cram as much multicultural bullshit into our heads as possible during a time of relative peace.

People celebrate festivus in the same way people claim their religion is Jedi.

Thats St. Peters cross for the curious. THey nailed him up upside down at his request

Modern Druidic traditions were completely made up in the 19th century by essentially LARPers who based it on ecclesiastical garments.

Due to American black people mainly descending from slavery, they couldn't really trace their history to a specific place on the African continent like most white people can say shit like "I;m 20% German, 20% French, 40% English and 20% hotdog". So a group of black folk said something like "well every other race has cultural holidays. We don't have shit. So let's make a disgusting mish-mash of actual African religions and pretend it's worth celebrating"


It's kind of like how in the 60s, the Christian identity was born out of all the Christ-based religions. Only this time it didn't work at all and was just dumb and confusing

>It reminds how the white man steaks everything from us people of color
would that color happen to be very pale? Because only vampires get the steak, I'm on to you Vlad.

The fuck is up with people bringing up stupid Star Wars shit multiple times during this conversation? Anyway, some people are legitimately Jedi, just as some people legitimately celebrate Festivus. There was a Jedi interviewed on Tosh.0 who said he didn't even like Star Wars.

>most white people can say shit like "I;m 20% German, 20% French, 40% English and 20% hotdog

Well isn't that convenient.

>some people are legitimately Jedi
>Tosh.0

Our old friend pedobear died for this garbage.

Best holiday that triggers the lesser common denominator. :)

>Not watching Seinfeld

yes, except Avatar christmas would be culturaly sensitive and more aware of what it actually was

Kwanzaa is like all those new age witches acting self-important and self-righteous when anyone whose taken a history or mythology class cringe when they see them

Jewish writers shouldn't write Jewish characters because that's too "convenient"?

No one celebrates the religious side of Easter. It's a candy day for the kids, a good dinner, and maybe church if you feel like it. Christmas at least has the whole nativity thing if you ever forget about Jesus being part of it. Easter is 100% commercialized at this point.

Jehovah witnesses?

I can't imagine anyone else giving a shit other than to from outrage.

How does thinking black people have to celebrate kwanza mean that you missed the point of Christmas?

Why don't they just use cellphones to solve all their problems?

He sent reviewbrah to In n' out, he's cool in my book

not true, plenty of people still observe the religious mass of Easter, especially in europe
that said, the Candy Weekend definitely takes precedent in popular culture and understanding

Because I thought Black people HAD to celebrate Kwanzaa - The point of Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Anyone can do that. Black people can be Christian. I didn't even think about that before that point.

It's a family thing, commercials shouldn't teach you anything other than commercials are dumb.

Christianity states that black people exist because they're descendants of Cain who share his cursed black skin. Why would black people want to celebrate that?

>yes, except Avatar christmas would be culturaly sensitive and more aware of what it actually was
What the fuck. Do you seriously think Avatar is culturally sensitive?
It's a nonsense mishmash of pseudo-eastern californian shit that doesn't even get basic things accurately and treats Asians and their culture like they're fantasy people like elves. It's DUDE BUDDHISM LMAO but acting super serious about it.

The only reason it's not considered culturally insensitive is because actual Asians who would be able to tell don't give a flying fuck.
Not that I really care that it's insensitive, but people really need to stop having this show in such high regards when talking specifically about how it treats Eastern cultures.

Whatever the case I wouldn't really treat him as a source of reliable information.

Dan O'Keefe was a writer on Seinfeld. His father got so fed up with the commercialism of Christmas that he invented his own holiday out of protest that was celebrated by the O'Keefe family since 1966. The other writers thought it was so funny that they made it into a Seinfeld episode.

It's celebrated on December 23rd, and some of the traditions are having a straight aluminum pole instead of a Christmas tree in the episode, but in real life there was a clock in a bag nailed to a wall. At the Festivus Dinner there is the Airing of Grievances, in which you take turns telling everyone at the table how they disappointed you over the past year. Finally, Festivus does not end until that year's chosen contender manages to pin the head of the household to the ground in the Feats of Strength. The holiday slogan is "A Festivus for the rest of us!" Some people have taken to actually celebrating the holiday.

The jews did this

He didn't first appear on Tosh.0, he was just interviewed on it. Here's another one with the same guy.
youtube.com/watch?v=nMCeNN6NITE

That's mormons

The bible says nothing of the sort. Good lord, I'm not even a christian and I know better than that.

Can people really not be bothered to read the most important book in western civilization?

Mormons aren't Christian?

Nowhere in the bible does it say this, take your protestant bullshit out of here.

Ask non-mormon christians if they are or not.

It's not exactly an entertaining or enlighting read.

No, they're a protestant denomination, an off shoot of Christianity.

Its an entertaining read if you have an attention span longer than most YA novels. Genealogy can be tiring but you hardly need to actually read it unless you want to get involved deeper into it.

Neither is Lord of the Rings but if you want to understand contemporary fantasy literature you'd better have read it. The Bible is that, but all of european literature and history for the last fifteen hundred years.

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kwanza mind

Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." 15So the LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD appointed a mark for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.

The mark is never elaborated on or specified. Anyone claiming it's black skin is just speculating.