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sharz in bad_service

Racist window display

Jul 21, 2010 15:50

Oh Australia, I love but what is with the race fail nowadays ( Read more... )

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alogia July 21 2010, 05:51:35 UTC

I had to Google that.

sharz July 21 2010, 05:52:27 UTC

Google what?

suzilla July 21 2010, 06:44:31 UTC

So did I. Yikes.

candycane_cool July 21 2010, 06:54:50 UTC

same

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sharz July 21 2010, 06:23:52 UTC

I think it might have been the owner actually.

The thing with Australia is that if it's perceived to be racist in the US, they don't think it applies here... but then they can't explain why they wouldn't use the n-word.

cyberninjasio July 21 2010, 13:27:23 UTC

Being as people have been arrested over these things in the UK, it's not just us Americans who think it's racist.

sharz July 21 2010, 13:30:02 UTC

I wonder if the police will even care here? You'd have to assume that they are educated about this sort of thing too. I'm hoping to contact the centre management where the store is located. I'm pretty sure they would have signed something about offensive displays in the tenancy agreement or something.

azetburcaptain July 21 2010, 06:27:42 UTC

Somehow I'm not surprised... but that was still really shitty.

lianetherider July 21 2010, 07:09:29 UTC

Yikes...

(also, for anyone else that was unfamiliar, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwogg)

ljmydayaway July 21 2010, 07:10:25 UTC

Those dolls are ridiculously cute, despite whatever connotations might be attached to it.

kimerastorm July 21 2010, 07:18:54 UTC

The dolls themselves are adorable, and (if I am understanding the plot of the original stories correctly) the stories are a good example of learning not to judge someone as 'wicked' or 'evil' just because they look different from you.

Its a sad thing that this adorable character was twisted into a racist symbol by a petty few... and I think sadder that instead of trying to reclaim the good, people want to just put poor Golly in the attic and forget him.

blasphemusfish July 21 2010, 07:41:04 UTC

A little old lady who looked after my bro and I when we were kids knitted us a bunch of them as Christmas presents, I grew up thinking they were wicked cool, I had no idea about their history or anything back then. It would still be inappropriate of me to deny other people to feel offended by the dolls, whatever they personally mean to me.

Just to add that they weren't always depicted well in early books, depending on the author. Enid Blyton named one of them the n word even. Those connections to racism are always going to be made.

cyberninjasio July 21 2010, 13:31:25 UTC

This is because Upton never copyrighted the term, so anyone could use it. Hence, racist folks used it and made it truly truly awful.

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