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Post by wickedjenИ on Feb 23, 2017 4:42:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 4:56:43 GMT
I think it's just "triggering" for the little crybabies that were upset over Glenn. They bitched at AMC saying show was too violent and now they want to rain on our parade in another way. GG crybabies.
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Post by weallgotit on Feb 23, 2017 5:20:03 GMT
Just ridiculous. I've seen some racist shit on T-shirts and that definitely does not qualify as racist. I don't get it either.
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Post by ᴏɴʟɪɴᴇ-ᴅᴏɴ on Feb 23, 2017 7:25:26 GMT
I saw this, so fucking dumb lmao
When I read the headline I expected something insensitive to Asian dudes, I fell for the damn click bait :/
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Post by heriotoffire on Feb 23, 2017 8:26:54 GMT
it's explained in the article. Entirely fair, and who shops at primark anyway.
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Post by danae on Feb 23, 2017 11:56:28 GMT
First of all I am old as dirt and upon reading this article I was scratching my head. I was raised in a small southeast Texas town, the kind ripe for implanting racist dogma in the minds of the young. Until I read the bit where they actually brought up how the "song" was initially sang for the life of me I could not think why catching a tiger by his toe was racist. Sure, I could see the tigers getting upset, but they do not exactly have buying power. The point being, months ago "eeny meeny miney moe" was playing over and over on AMC advertising the season premier. No one said a word about it. For months it has been referred to in articles, memes, other T-shirts and merchandise that has been selling all over the place. Now we have one disgruntled Methodist preacher who stirs up a hornets nest by pointing out something that no one (not even someone as old as myself) remembered.
I am pretty damn liberal in my views but I do think that there is a line that can be crossed from being socially aware to just plain damn ridiculous. Either people are too damn sensitive or just looking to stir the shit pot.
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Post by wickedjenИ on Feb 23, 2017 14:03:02 GMT
Exactly danae! Now, if Negan had used "Ring Around The Rosey", undoubtedly someone would take issue with that. I honestly think those fucking people never even watched the show and have no fucking idea that it is from THE WALKING DEAD. To quote Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Twitter "Holy crap people are stupid." |
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Post by danae on Feb 23, 2017 14:09:34 GMT
Exactly danae ! Now, if Negan had used "Ring Around The Rosey", undoubtedly someone would take issue with that. I honestly think those fucking people never even watched the show and have no fucking idea that it is from THE WALKING DEAD. To quote Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Twitter "Holy crap people are stupid." I rarely respond to politically charged "stuff and thangs" but this one just rubbed me the wrong damn way LOL! |
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Post by heriotoffire on Feb 23, 2017 14:27:27 GMT
Exactly danae ! Now, if Negan had used "Ring Around The Rosey", undoubtedly someone would take issue with that. I honestly think those fucking people never even watched the show and have no fucking idea that it is from THE WALKING DEAD. To quote Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Twitter "Holy crap people are stupid." Isn't that the point? Surely Primark aren't in it to serve Walking Dead viewers exclusively, so if somebody takes offense, justified or not, it's perfectly understandable for them to pull the product. |
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Post by wickedjenИ on Feb 23, 2017 14:34:55 GMT
Exactly danae ! Now, if Negan had used "Ring Around The Rosey", undoubtedly someone would take issue with that. I honestly think those fucking people never even watched the show and have no fucking idea that it is from THE WALKING DEAD. To quote Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Twitter "Holy crap people are stupid." Isn't that the point? Surely Primark aren't in it to serve Walking Dead viewers exclusively, so if somebody takes offense, justified or not, it's perfectly understandable for them to pull the product. I understand they had to, I just think it's ridiculous that people bitch and moan about something that's NOT even remotely racist, and ruin it for the people who do want to buy the shirt there. People find offense in EVERYTHING these days when there's no reason for it. I'm getting really sick of it. /end rant |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 14:40:27 GMT
This is article made me confused. I'm scratching my head figuring out how that is racist. I feel like people look into things too much! No way do i find the shirt offensive.
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Post by heriotoffire on Feb 23, 2017 14:41:45 GMT
I agree to a point, there's countless bigger issues to take offence to, and just to be clear I'm far from a PC person myself. Must say though I wouldn't be impressed either, seeing a shirt with the lyrics to "Ten little niggers" on it somewhere, however innocently it was used in some random TV show.
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Post by danae on Feb 23, 2017 14:52:28 GMT
This thread sent me back to my mid 20s when I was working for a family owned business. The owner of the company was probably in his 30s and his father worked there also. He was an older gentleman probably in his late 60s, Mr. Hawa was his name.
Mr. Hawa had a way with words and at times I do not think he fully understood the sometimes risque innuendo of some words. When customers would call in with a complaint he was polite but when he would hang up the phone he would say (about the complaining customer) "wah wah my pussy hurts" This gripe with the T-shirts reminded me of Mr. Hawa and now all I can think when I read about these damn T-shirt whiners is "wah wah my pussy hurts" LMAO!!
Side Note: Also, when he could not remember a person's name he would snap his fingers repeatedly and say in an attempt to remember "you know, you know, ol' pussy-face"
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Post by Jazzy on Feb 23, 2017 15:16:20 GMT
I didn't even know it was originally "catch a n***** by the toe". Huh...
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Post by PepperAnn on Feb 23, 2017 15:27:11 GMT
I actually never even knew that rhyme used to have a replacement (target) word. I always thought it was tiger. I am apparently not the only one. To me, a portion of racism (NOT ALL but a portion of it) still exists BECAUSE of how incredibly sensitive some people are. Sometimes the racism is not even there and people just place it there. I am not a fan of that word, I think it's horrible and I cringe when I hear or read it. I also don't condone violence (IRL  ) But I do think people take offensiveness and politically correctness a bit too far. If you look at this as an example....you can trace almost every saying or tshirt to some form of an -ism... 6 degrees of -isms. lol |
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) But I do think people take offensiveness and politically correctness a bit too far.