Soldato
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I knew about the N word variation, always recited it with "Tigger" however rather than tiger, the Winnie the Pooh character.
Racist The Walking Dead T-Shirt pulled after complaints
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Guess it is kind of like the swastika in a way - you can use it in a way completely unrelated to the Nazis but no one would today due to the connotations - likewise the use of the rhyme here isn't intended to have any connection to racism but it still has those connotations.
In the North east where I grew up it was always the N word. I am also quite sure that a very large number of people also associate that rhyme with that same word.
I will also agree that nobody cared and to use such language was completely normal when I was young and frankly in this part of the world it still is not that rare.
Yes this is clearly an age thing and I would love to believe we live in a more enlightened society.
Now I would not be for banning that shirt but I can absolutely see why some would find it offensive and I do see it in the same sort of light that I see gollywogs and the black and white minstrels.
Something that maybe should have been left in the past with the N word.
I will also agree that nobody cared and to use such language was completely normal when I was young and frankly in this part of the world it still is not that rare.
Yes this is clearly an age thing and I would love to believe we live in a more enlightened society.
Now I would not be for banning that shirt but I can absolutely see why some would find it offensive and I do see it in the same sort of light that I see gollywogs and the black and white minstrels.
Something that maybe should have been left in the past with the N word.
banning is slightly different to a global company pulling artwork that mistakenly has racist connotations. I also would not ban it, but if I was the decision maker in Primark I too would be pulling the design faster than my social media department could run an apology.
I agree. I don't find it offensive but I can understand why some people would when paired with violent imagery.
Crap like this is why racism will never die. The rhyme was maybe racist once, but as evidenced by this thread its only the older generation that knew it as the n word. So banning a totally non racist t shirt undoes all that, making it seem racist again. Why can't people just get on with their lives and let things be. We'd all be a lot better off for it.
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"eeny meeny miny moe, catch the knickers by the toe"... was the one we did back in school 
Remember guys, everything is offensive if you try hard enough.
Remember guys, everything is offensive if you try hard enough.
As a child we used to say "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, one of you has got to go. Which one will it be..." and then I think it was just "it. is. you." picking whichever of your friends it landed on with "you". Have never heard the other version.
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Can't remember what our version was. Not n or tigger so dunno
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of course they do, ask kanye west.
Can't. He's married to a hobbit.
This was the same at my school back in the day.
Let's ignore the fact the context is bashing someone's head in with a baseball bat wrapped in barb until their eye pops out of the socket. Instead, let's focus on the fact that someone, somewhere, thinks part of a sentence is racist.
The origins of the rhyme are not racist however much the Americans wish everything was invented 300 years ago.
Idiots. Also i would like to explain to y'all that saying "the "n" word" is just as bad if not worse than just saying it, as both you and viewers will still internally speak it... thus entirely negating the point of not saying it in the first place.
Idiots. Also i would like to explain to y'all that saying "the "n" word" is just as bad if not worse than just saying it, as both you and viewers will still internally speak it... thus entirely negating the point of not saying it in the first place.
