Mall Santa makes joke about Hillary. Sent for reeducation. Are we the USSR? By Kelly Nov 25, 2016

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File this under WTF? Are we turning into the bleak, humorless, mind-controlled Soviet Union?
Who do you think is at fault here? Santa, the snowflake mom, or the store for folding to her ridiculous complaint.

Here’s what happened. A Florida shopping mall formally apologized to a family and placed its Santa in “counseling” after the man jokingly told a little girl Hillary Clinton was on his “naughty list.”
The man, who has not been named, was working as a mall Santa at the Seminole Towne Center in Sanford, Florida.
After a 10-year-old girl told him what she wanted for Christmas, the Santa informed her she was on his “nice list.”
“Do you know who is on my naughty list? Hillary Clinton,” he then allegedly said.
The girl’s mother complained to mall officials.
The company that provided the mall Santa issued an apology to the family.
The man was sent to “counseling” with human resources officials.
The company has not said if he will be allowed to keep his job.
OK, maybe we should leave politics out of Santa’s Grotto, but was this escalation necessary? It’s just another example of the new phenomenon of “virtue-signaling” where people say they love or hate something to show off what a virtuous person they are instead of actually trying to fix the problem or deal with it rationally.
Look out for it everywhere these days.