T-shirt in Primark discontinued because of racist 'eeny meeny miny moe' message

whoopsadoodles · 23-02-2017 12:15PM

Sigh

Glenster · 23-02-2017 12:18PM

DredFX wrote: »

Now this rubs me the wrong way:

BBC

So, a man who isn't even black finds a tacky t-shirt featuring a children's rhyme fantastically offensive. (Lovely choice of adverb there.)

I think he's right, because the fact that it is now commonly used by kids to choose between the last two players for a football match doesn't overturn its previous usage as a racial slur well over a century ago.

Its just a t shirt. Get rid of it, then don't worry about it.

They're not banning Christmas or anything............. Are they?

Your Face · 23-02-2017 12:19PM

Some people are slaves to fashion.

Glenster · 23-02-2017 12:20PM

osarusan wrote: »

Also, the versions I remember was catch a nipper by the toe, if it squeezes let it go.

Never knew until today I was advocating violence against Japanese people.

Nipper meaning child I always assumed. Is nipper an offensive term for a Japanese?

Winterlong · 23-02-2017 12:21PM

osarusan wrote: »

Also, the versions I remember was catch a nipper by the toe, if it squeezes let it go.

Never knew until today I was advocating violence against Japanese people.

I always thought it was this nipper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-gb9p65Z0

Effects · 23-02-2017 12:21PM

DredFX wrote: »

So, a man who isn't even black finds a t-shirt featuring a children's rhyme fantastically offensive.

I'm offended by you. Am I not allowed to be offended by racism just because I'm not black?

Outlaw Pete · 23-02-2017 12:24PM

Was wrecking my head for the last half hour or so about which film do I remember the rhyme being used in, where the actor raises his voice at the end and when he says 'MOE!'.

Anyway, just remembered, it was (if anyone wants to play at home cover your eyes now):

Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon just before he blows a hole in the South African's fish tank.

ohnonotgmail · 23-02-2017 12:24PM

Glenster wrote: »

Nipper meaning child I always assumed. Is nipper an offensive term for a Japanese?

at one stage japanese people were known as nips (from Nippon the name that japanese use to refer to their homeland). never heard them being called nippers though.

GBX · 23-02-2017 12:27PM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Eeny meeny miny mo
catch a tiger by the toe
if it screams let it go
eeny meeny miny mo

where is the racial slur again?

Exactly .. the offended brigade look for every f**king opportunity to complain and shout. Its ridiculous. The Walking Dead were hardly going to all KKK and stick the original poem in the show. And it doesn't even appear on the tshirt.

:mad::mad:

razorblunt · 23-02-2017 12:28PM

Eeen meeny minie moe
Catch a TRIGGERED by the toe

DredFX · 23-02-2017 12:31PM

Effects wrote: »

I'm offended by you. Am I not allowed to be offended by racism just because I'm not black?

Oh, no. You're welcome to take offence to anything, just like how you were offended by me.

But, I don't think molehills should be made into mountains, and especially not on behalf of people who more than likely wouldn't give a monkey's rectum about them to begin with.

MRnotlob606 · 23-02-2017 12:31PM

POLTICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD. ARGHHH THE RAGE. I WANT TO PUNCH A BABY GOAT.

me_irl · 23-02-2017 12:33PM

Negan be tripping yo.

Amy33 · 23-02-2017 12:35PM

I went to an all girls primary school in the 80's and the version we used was

Eeny meeny miney moe,
Lost my knickers in the snow,
If you find them, let me know,
Eeny meeny miney moe.

RobertKK · 23-02-2017 12:39PM

My father who is in his 90s years ago told us the original rhyme.

Eeny meany miny moe
Catch a n-igger by the toe
If he squeals let him go
Eeny meany miny moe.

So it is from a very racist origin where that comes from.

MRnotlob606 · 23-02-2017 12:41PM

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Regressive left getting offended on others behalf yet again. Similar outrage was expressed over Clarkson using the rhyme a few years back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea39INWC1TE

In fairness in that report it shows Clarkson calling an Asian man a "gook" or "chink".

23-02-2017 12:43PM

I always think what irritates me most is the utter stupidity of making this stuff in the first place. How did it pass through an entire process without someone saying "um, do you not know the second line"? It's not so much about whether I am offended, it is simply about realising that someone may be offended, and accepting that their objections would hardly be outrageous or baffling.

dav3 · 23-02-2017 12:43PM

Does it really matter? We would have no idea that this has happened if it had not been for people outraged at other people being outraged.

I don't think anyone in the world has woken up this morning feeling their life has changed for the worse because they can no longer buy a t-shirt from Penney's made by the expert tailoring and delicate hands of 5 year old Bangladeshi children.

Gatling · 23-02-2017 12:45PM

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

In fairness in that report it shows Clarkson calling an Asian man a "gook" or "chink".

It shows clarkson saying there's a slope on the bridge ,if you look the bridge slopes off on the right side ,
And yes there's an Asian person on the bridge .

1+1 = 5

wes · 23-02-2017 12:46PM

I don't which is worse, people being outraged over something pretty minor, or people getting outraged over people being outraged.

Gatling · 23-02-2017 12:46PM

Safe zones, build safe zones for the easily offended so they can retreat to clean and sterile areas devoid of anything that may cause offence

23-02-2017 12:50PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I always think what irritates me most is the utter stupidity of making this stuff in the first place. How did it pass through an entire process without someone saying "um, do you not know the second line"? It's not so much about whether I am offended, it is simply about realising that someone may be offended, and accepting that their objections would hardly be outrageous or baffling.

Because second line is "catch a tiger by the toe". It's a goddamn children's nursery rhyme from the 19th century. Just because assholes have made a racist version of it doesn't mean it should stop the original. It would be like banning the Fields Of Athenry because dicks put IRA into it.

23-02-2017 12:53PM

Omackeral wrote: »

Because second line is "catch a tiger by the toe". It's a goddamn children's nursery rhyme from the 19th century. Just because assholes have made a racist version of it doesn't mean it should stop the original...

If you think the tiger version was the more popular one, we were in very different schoolyards as kids!

Zaph · 23-02-2017 12:53PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

That said, for those that understand the reference it makes perfect sense and represents no racial slur at all.

I don't even watch The Walking Dead and I got the reference. If you don't understand something then keep your opinions to yourself and you won't look like such a fool.

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

define "a little while". as a child growing up in the 70s the N word wasnt used.

It definitely was when I grew up in the 70s.

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

i think that says more about you than the tshirt.

Yeah, because 6 year old me knew all about racism or what a n***** actually was. :rolleyes:

Outlaw Pete · 23-02-2017 12:54PM

wes wrote: »

I don't which is worse, people being outraged over something pretty minor, or people getting outraged over people being outraged.

It's the people being outraged at people getting outraged over people being outraged that boils my blood. High horse ****ers.

lazybones32 · 23-02-2017 01:17PM

GBX wrote: »

Exactly .. the offended brigade look for every f**king opportunity to complain and shout. Its ridiculous. The Walking Dead were hardly going to all KKK and stick the original poem in the show. And it doesn't even appear on the tshirt.

:mad::mad:

Could you not use the angry faces in future? They're triggering me.

lazybones32 · 23-02-2017 01:22PM

RobertKK wrote: »

My father who is in his 90s years ago told us the original rhyme.

Eeny meany miny moe
Catch a n-igger by the toe
If he squeals let him go
Eeny meany miny moe.

So it is from a very racist origin where that comes from.

Yes, but the t-shirt doesn't contain the offensive 'n' word. It is a cultural reference from the walking dead, where a man used that rhyme to decide who to kill, using the bat in the front of the shirt. He crushed 2 skulls with 'lucille'.

Graces7 · 23-02-2017 01:29PM

RobertKK wrote: »

My father who is in his 90s years ago told us the original rhyme.

Eeny meany miny moe
Catch a n-igger by the toe
If he squeals let him go
Eeny meany miny moe.

So it is from a very racist origin where that comes from.

That is the version I knew as a child too.

I did get told off my Canadians for reciting another rhyme i was taught up on a remote Orkney island...

"The chicken am a useful bird,
The little n......r said,
Cos you can eat him 'fore he's born
And after he is dead"

But PC is rather extreme there,, no dwarves... Little people

biko · 23-02-2017 01:39PM

So, it's Negan in Walking Dead that is the racist now?
I knew it when he killed

Glenn!

Richard Hillman · 23-02-2017 02:23PM

Primark are the worst party in all of this. They are pandering to and enabling these control freaks

T-shirt in Primark discontinued because of racist 'eeny meeny miny moe' message

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