Ideological Colonisation

Jim Chimirie

December 22, 2025

They see children not as heirs to joy, but as blank slates to be programmed with guilt. "Santa is too white" is just another way of saying you are too white.

A publicly funded British museum has declared Father Christmas "too white," "too patriarchal," and morally unfit to judge children. This is not satire, parody, or a student stunt. It is the official voice of Brighton and Hove Museums – an institution paid by taxpayers to preserve heritage, now treating it as a problem to be solved.

Their complaint is not that Santa has been commercialised or cheapened, but that he exercises judgement. The naughty list, we're told, is a "Western binary." Moral distinction is "colonial." The solution is to scrap judgement entirely, rebrand him as "Mother Christmas," and recast the elves as co-workers in a flattened, grievance-managed collective. Charity without standards. Joy without meaning. Tradition without roots.

What's being proposed here isn't reform but repudiation. A cultural authority has looked at one of the most benign figures in European folklore – a symbol of generosity, restraint, and reward earned through conduct – and concluded that the problem lies not with human behaviour, but with the civilisation that dares to distinguish right from wrong.

That alone tells you how far the rot has spread. The attack on Santa isn't about Santa. It's about narrative control. If they can make you feel ashamed of a story as joyful and harmless as Father Christmas – a figure rooted in European folklore, Christian charity, and festive tradition – they can make you ashamed of anything. Your history. Your religion. Your nation. Your skin.

This is what ideological colonisation looks like: strip a culture of its symbols, flood its traditions with guilt, and turn its festivals into battlegrounds for theory. First Christmas was too religious. Then it was too white. Now it's too binary, too judgmental, too "colonial."

What remains if this logic wins? Lights without meaning. Songs without story. A hollow shell where memory used to live. And let's not pretend this is an isolated case. Across Britain, cultural institutions are infected by the same poison – a bureaucratic class that sees its role not as steward of the past but as its interrogator. Museums sneer at what they were built to protect. Galleries use public money to dismantle beauty in the name of "reimagining." Libraries swap storytelling for ideology, and schools tiptoe around December as if tradition itself were a threat.

Ask yourself this: would any other civilisation do this? Would Saudi Arabia replace Eid with a seminar on white privilege? Would India allow its temples to host deconstructions of Diwali? Would Nigeria denounce its tribal folklore as oppressive binaries?

Of course not. Only the West does this. Only the West funds the demolition of its own inheritance and calls it progress. That's the deeper point. This isn't cultural evolution. It's self-harm dressed as virtue. These people don't want to "reimagine" Christmas. They want to dissolve it – to turn a season of belonging and wonder into a classroom for resentment.

They see children not as heirs to joy, but as blank slates to be programmed with guilt. "Santa is too white" is just another way of saying you are too white. "Judgement is colonial" is code for morality itself being suspect.

And if they get away with this, it won't stop at Christmas. Every tradition will be rewritten. Every figure flattened. Every national story edited until nothing remains but apologies and disclaimers. This is Year Zero thinking – erase what was, replace it with what should be, and raise a generation that no longer recognises the country it inhabits.

Britain is being taught to forget itself – and to hate what it remembers. So no, this isn't just about Santa. It's about a line in the sand.

Push back now, or surrender childhood, heritage, and joy to a class of cultural saboteurs who believe the past must burn so they can rule over the ashes.

© Jim Chimirie 2025

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