when it comes to africa for example i was taught that they're poor cause their land isn't harvestable or some bullshit like that, and then i find out as an adult it's actually cause western countries fucked the shit out of them and huh that makes a lot more sense
So many of the lyrics in that song are fucked up: "Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears", "And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom", "Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you". The very premise of the song is wrong anyway, there are hundreds of millions of Christians living in Africa OF COURSE THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS.
That thank god line is soooooooo fucked.
It sounds like something Tom Lehrer would write, but without the irony.