Golliwogs Again

[fender62]

its doll..flowerpots are up in a roar again lol
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6002189/Outrage-racist-golliwogs-display-window-RSPCA-affiliated-charity-shop.html

[fender62]

some people are looking for offense where none is implied, spend their lives looking for for it, like they need a daily grievance. my diet of the day, search out and find offensive material. hey nothing to see here

[jackthehat]

......and some waste their time posting articles on the internet from newspapers which have specifically formulated the headlines to get their target audience 'outraged'.

Nowt so queer as folk.....

[ummmm]

I was called a snowflake earlier....

[Mamyalynne]

Coooo, get you.

[tonyav]

Thanks for the link, fender.
I have tried as hard as I can to be offended but failed.

[Togo]

Jackie are you saying that Graham Waller(bless) has not complained and that SRtRC are not on the case and doing their utmost(as is their wont) to force the charity shop to prostate themselves and recant. Or are you saying that the Mail has made the story up. Do tell.

[Theland]

Please please please please go on YouTube and type in Pat Condell for offending subjects and common sense.
Off to bed now.,thank you all.

[Mamyalynne]

//to force the charity shop to prostate themselves and recant//

Or, just take the dolls out of the window.

Now this is precisely why stories like this get published.

Quite comical.

[jno]

there are websites for people who like to prostate themselves

[Tashi]

Has that been legalised now?

[marval]

I use to love my golliwog. They even had them in a Noddy story, I bet that has been changed.

[tonyav]

They even had them in a Noddy story, I bet that has been changed.

I'll bet it has, marval.

[marval]

Yes Tony, my brother was scared of the golliwogs in the wood.

[tonyav]

LOL.

A lot of the books we read ( my generation ) in my early years at school aren't allowed anymore !.

[Old_Geezer]

More moronic nonsense.
I reckon only those that see racism everywhere find it in a child's doll.

[andy-hughes]

It's an old story that rears its head from time to time.

Tastes and attitudes change, what was once universally accepted, is not universally accepted anymore.

I would only be bothered if someone was deliberately trying to upset others - which is clearly not the case here.

I grew up with gollies being the villains in my Noddy books, and Huree Singh in the Bunter chronicles being called 'Inky' - but no more.

Times move on, it's really not a big deal.

[Jackdaw33]

We had an Anglo-Indian lad at school whom we called Inky. Neither he nor anyone else took offence. I suppose the Bunter books are permanently out of print now. Anyone who still has a collection of them must be sitting on a small fortune.

[douglas9401]

Ah The Wolf of Kabul and the faithful Chung and his clicky ba' come to mind, righting wrongs in a comradely style.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I think it's to society's credit that it frowns on and in extreme cases criminalises racist terms like "inky" or "darky" or worse. These terms insult more recent British communities and threaten social cohesion.

On the other hand, having banned things Inky and Darky don't[i like, ought we not legalise the things they [i]do] as marrying girls under ten and clitoridectomy.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I undersrand that these things are already accepted de facto[i, but - love which dare not speak its name and all - high time these exotic cultural norms are accepted [i]de jure].