Also in the original Rudolph story (the 1939 book put out by Montgomery Ward) Rudolph isn’t born among Santa’s reindeer, Rudolph is born among a normal reindeer herd who exclude him because he’s different, but Santa comes and sees that he’s special and that his being different is good and I just feel like that’s a much more appropriate characterization of Santa, than a Santa who’s a shit to people who are different.
Moral of the Book: Some people are assholes, but some will see how special you are.
Moral of the Song: People are assholes until you prove useful to them.
Actually the song doesn’t specify
IN the song he allows it to happen
In the song, it doesn’t say where Santa is or what he’s doing while the other reindeer are being shits, again in the book, on which the song is based, specifies Rudolph is born among a herd of normal reindeer that have no association with Santa.
Santa sees him on a foggy Christmas eve (having been previously unacquainted with Rudolph) and in the song it nowhere suggests Santa had any awareness of what was going on with Rudolph, and like considering how he has to monitor the behavior of all the human children on earth, it’s entirely likely he doesn’t know what random reindeer herds are up to.
The movie, which came after both book AND song, is where Santa is a dick.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 