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How sweet that you consider yourself so young (or more likely keep yourself so blinkered) that you pretend to be unaware of racism in your community.

Let me see now...

"Jailing Liam Mountford for 28 months, a judge told him it was “claptrap” that his comments to the victim during the attack in Wigan had not been racist as he had friends in ethnic communities."
http://www.lep.co.uk/your-lancashire/north-west/man-jailed-for-racist-attack-on-cyclist-1-8190736

"Shaun Wilkinson, 25, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated assault after unleashing a barrage of vile racist abuse at the men as they walked down Thompson Street, Preston."
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/crime/dad-launched-vicious-racist-attack-1-6316706

"RACIST vandals sprayed vehicles, homes, and businesses in a mile-long spree across part of Blackburn at the weekend."
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/10816015.Racist_graffiti_attack_in_Blackburn/
 
JohnD said:
How sweet that you consider yourself so young (or more likely keep yourself so blinkered) that you pretend to be unaware of racism in your community.
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Those links have literally nothing at all to do with baseball bats, slogans, T-shirts or political correctness, but thanks for trying to contribute!
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JohnD said:
Do you go to football matches and make amusing gas-chamber noises? Or amusing monkey noises?
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That, deliberately provocative behaviour isn't the same as a T-shirt based on a very popular TV show, which wasn't intended to offend. It just so happens that a few people have decided to be offended now, despite it's lack of intended malice.

World of difference.

Racism should be stamped out, end of. T-shirts like this is down to the levels of a person's acceptability on a very old rhyme which was changed 30-40 years ago. I've never heard it with the n-word. There are those who wish to be offended on behalf of others and there are those who don't. It's a personal choice and something people will never agree on.

Funny, when all the TV shows and video games were blamed in the news on influencing children those years ago, there would've been an uproar about this T-shirt but for different reasons. That scene in the Walking Dead was absolutely stomach turning and quite frankly sick and the violence this t-shirt referenced is awful, but nobody mentions that these days - it's all about racism. Meh, violence is ok now huh? So long as you don't upset anyone's feelings.
 
Why do people keep, saying that a T shirt based on a TV programme is not racist.
Of course it is not, assuming the programme itself is not racist.

But take away the TV connection and see the shirt in its stand-alone context, which anyone who is not aware of the TV programme would do.
A normal person, seeing that shirt in its own right, independent of the TV, would assume it was racist. Baseball bats, with barbed wire and the rhyme eeny, meeny etc. What other context, excluding the TV, could it possibly have? Catching tigers? Bathing babies?
 
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What I would like to know is since the rhyme is very old, and the n-word wasn't always used in the past (and not used in recent history) that it should always and forevermore be deemed as a racist rhyme? It's been used in fairly recent movies, music and TV without much fuss, as well as kids using the tiger word in many a playground - why does that none of that matter? Why was it acceptable for many a year to sing the song with 'tiger' - why does everything have to be racist these days?
 
blightymam said:
What I would like to know is since the rhyme is very old, and the n-word wasn't always used in the past (and not used in recent history) that it should always and forevermore be deemed as a racist rhyme? It's been used in fairly recent movies, music and TV without much fuss, as well as kids using the tiger word in many a playground - why does that none of that matter? Why was it acceptable for many a year to sing the song with 'tiger' - why does everything have to be racist these days?
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From a contextual viewpoint, it is extremely relevant in that if you asked the opinions of two varying groups of people, what they thought was racist - say a group of white Nazi supremacists and an a group of genuine victims of racism, you would get wildly varying answers. And all of them would be correct, but not necessarily ideal. Good ole 'context'.

I'm also pretty sure that genuine victims of racism get frustrated with half hearted attempts at those that become offended by racism on their behalf.

I'm also pretty sure that it was a commercial decision to pull that tee shirt from sales to avoid one of those 'Gerald Ratner' moments knowing that social media reach is now a hundred times more powerful than it was back then. Everything else going on in forums like this one is just an example of social media sickness.
 
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mitch66 said:
People are being denied the opportunity to buy that shirt because of an easily offended PC ****. Twist it how you want but that is a fact.
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No it is not a fact. They pulled that shirt because it is offensive (to a far reaching and influential audience) or else they would have laughed at the moaner and said try it buster.
It was a commercial decision in the end.

Do you think Mitch that you could ring them up and say I find yellow tee shirts offensive and they will pull them from the shelves?
 
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