Is “Secret Santa” an innocent Christmas tradition?
One of the reasons I hate “Secret Santa” is because of incidents like this. I once received a Jar Jar Binks mask as a Secret Santa gift. Everyone found it funny and I just had to laugh it off, but I knew the racist messaging behind the gift.
Secret Santa can be fun or an opportunity to secretly a show appreciation for a colleague. But it can also be an opportunity to show the vile racist, sexist or homophobic mindset of individuals who call themselves “team mates”.
The worst part of this is that you will never know who sent you the gift so the trust in all of your team mates is lost forever, especially those that laughed as they did with Cherif Traore.
For this reason I will never participate in another Secret Santa. I would rather not know that a colleague is racist rather that live my working life suspecting that any one of them could be.
