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Not to make a Christmas Post but Santa did everything right re: the Rudolph situation and every time I see some edgelord slander talking about \u201cthe lesson of Rudolph is that your differences will be punished until the powers that be find them useful\u201d I just assume that person is a little thick and misunderstood a song written to be so simple babies can understand it

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One of the most basic things they teach you in Teacher School is that if you know a kid is being bullied, bringing all the other kids together and scolding them for being mean and excluding That Kid is a great way to escalate it from \u201cthey don\u2019t let this kid play with them\u201d to \u201cthey are beating up this kid.\u201d

If you actually want to address the problem, the other kids can\u2019t know they\u2019re being told what to do. A good way to address it is to create a situation where the bullied kid gets to be the big cool hero in a way that benefits everybody, then put the bullied kid in that situation and let them save the day.

Santa, in \u201cRudolph,\u201d is essentially doing the same thing that any teacher does when they have a class jeopardy game with a pizza party riding on it, and give the last question to the weird kid who\u2019s bullied for being super into anime, and that question happens to be about that kid\u2019s favorite anime, and they get it right, and now EVERYBODY gets pizza, thanks to Anime Kid!

Creating a situation, among a community of christmas-loving deer, where christmas can only happen because of the thing that\u2019s special about Rudolph, was literally LITERALLY him intervening on Rudolph\u2019s bullying. Do you think Santa, an immortal time-bending elf-saint who is sanctioned by god to monitor the children of the world and deliver them toys, is unable to navigate a foggy night? You really think his offering Rudolph, an untested rookie, the glamor post was an act of last resort? Do any of you know ANYTHING about Pedagogy or Classroom Management? These are deer. BABIES understand this song.

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