Dear snowflakes - golliwogs are not racist

Definitely not racist - this whole thread is worth reading. But don't worry the Daily "Heil" and the Home Secretary (allegedly) are supporting him

 

I don’t know about you but I often have to wear clothing supporting a far right fascist group just for convenience.

Isn’t it amazing how there’s a very strong correlation between those who say they aren’t fundamentally racist and the people that are… Some people beggar belief.

That sign is the best: if you are offended by our display of ‘toys’ which have grown to represent a glorification of racist stereotypes and a time gone by when society felt it perfectly acceptable to call other humans golliewogs, then don’t come in.

(Short version, if you’re not white, don’t bother).

It’s ok though. Cruella Braverman has apparently said the police were wrong to seize them, and she’s famously accepting of folk from all backgrounds.

 

These days Stew...

 

I think I must be weird.
I see a golliwog and just see it as a piece of history, I had one as a child and collected Robertson's Golly badges and never associated them with a black person.
Same with monkeys never made that connotation either, I just saw dressing them up as cruel.
If you read the history of them , they were never meant to be racist either neither was the term Wog, ironically they seem to have been turned into that by racists.
But if people are offended by them I get that they shouldn't be displayed in a pub etc.

 

The pub’s CCTV footage showed a man entering the pub on 1 March complaining about the dolls. “The police told me he was the victim of an alleged hate crime,” Ryley said.

Think she’s totally missed the point.

 

I've got some of the golliwog band figures somewhere

 

I had loads of plastic figures as a kid that you collected with tokens on back of Robertson's jam back in the early 70s.

 

I can't get angry about this.

You might get rid of the golliwogs, but it won't stop the landlords being racist feckers, it will just entrench their ideas.

Leave the golliwogs and remove the racists.

 

This also happened to me too once. All my clothes needed washing so I just put a white robe over me and because my head was a bit cold I put this white hood with eyes cut out on that i found conveniently near my robe.

 

Did you also have a flaming torch so you could be near the warming flames while you partook in your daily exercise around the streets where you live?

 

Speaking of connotations. a colleague of mine was censured for using the term “Let’s call a spade a spade.” The connection being made with racism rather than er,,,,,, spades.

 

I have many but my slaves carry them for me...

 

The term "golliwogg" comes from a children's book written and illustrated by Florence Kate Upton in 1895 - "The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls". Later versions added golliwogg to the title, but they didn't copyright the image or name and it was borrowed by others.

Its an interesting story - https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/golliwog/homepage.htm

 

Quite.

 

A Pub Landlord is racist? I'm shocked I tell ye'

 

Most people who like to "call a spade a spade" don't like it when i call them what they are - a lovely person.

I'm like, "sorry i'm just calling a spade a spade".

 

Are you sure it’s not because of what proceeded the ‘let’s call a spade a spade’ comment? What was the ‘spade’ he was referring to?

 

I used to have a Beautiful South t-shirt and got fed up of saying that I didn’t like the band, as I found them a bit smug when people asked me if I was a fan. I just liked the t-shirt, which said Northern Scum on the front. Although I had to defend myself on several occasions by saying I am northern when people took offence. I didn’t anticipate someone would want to fight me whilst walking on Brighton beach wearing it. Wouldn’t be so bad, but this lad wasn’t even a northerner, he was from the midlands. Had to use a thick Barnsley accent to get out of that one.