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More snowflakeism
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:00 am
by Gob
Primark has taken t-shirts based on The Walking Dead TV show off sale after a complaint that they were racist and offensive.
Shopper Ian Lucraft was so outraged and offended by the 'explicit' t-shirt that he complained directly to the discount clothing store's chief executive.
Now the retailer, which opened its latest store in Truro's Lemon Quay last year, has apologised and removed the men's t-shirt from all of its branches.
Mr Lucraft and his wife Gwen went to Primark to buy a present for their grandson when they spotted the white t-shirt with the slogan 'Eeny Meeny Miny Moe' and a picture of a bloodied baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.
The phrase and bat are both used by Negan, a particularly nasty character in the hit show who bashes people's head to a pulp with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire and nicknamed 'Lucille'.
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The gruesome episode which launched Season 7 of the hit AMC show received thousands of complaints, even from hardcore fans, who told show creators to tone the violence and gore down.
Mr Lucraft said: "We were shocked when we came face to face with a new t-shirt with a racially explicit graphic and text."
He said: "The slogan is 'Eeeny Meeny Miny Moe…..' It stops there, but of course we all know that the original said: 'Catch a N***** by his toe.'
"The graphic has a large American baseball bat, wrapped round with barbed wire and covered with blood. This image relates directly to the practice of assaulting black people in America.
"It is directly threatening a racist assault and if I was black and was faced by a wearer I would know just where I stood."
image:
http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/i ... /Negan.JPG
The sadistic psychotic killer Negan, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, in the hit show about survivors of the zombie apocalypse.
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In the controversial episode, Negan, who leads a gang called The Saviours, decided on who to kill by pointing to his victims one-by-one with the baseball bat, while saying 'eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a tiger by his toe'.
Read more at
http://www.cornwalllive.com/primark-pul ... xBtmV6m.99
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Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:17 am
by BoSoxGal
When I was little I was taught 'catch a tiger by his toe' and was none the wiser until someone at college told me I was racist.
Obviously the original IS racist, but . . . it's apparently an American creation:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:38 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
I knew it as "catch a tiger" also.
Never even heard the other version until now.
Sheltered life I guess.
Offensive t-shirt? I've seen worse.
Oh well, some people gotta complain about something.
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:46 pm
by Burning Petard
I believe this complaint touches on the greater definitions and usage of the word 'niggardly.'
I am very much an old geezer, who firmly believes that 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but tee-shirts with barb-wire and a baseball bat pictured, will never harm me.' I think the 'trigger-word' and 'safety zone' policy for public discourse is silly., right along with banning peanuts on passenger airplanes.
snailgate
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:50 pm
by rubato
The image is a graphic celebration of extreme violence. The woman is entitled to complain about it, at least in a country that values free speech, whether she is right or not that it is also racist.
Apparently many fans of the show TWD agreed with her, generally speaking.
The gruesome episode which launched Season 7 of the hit AMC show received thousands of complaints, even from hardcore fans, who told show creators to tone the violence and gore down.
The emotional premise of the show is to create a humanoid which the viewer can then take pleasure and satisfaction in watching people kill. In the past the entertainment media used Nazis, Communists, Blacks (Birth of a Nation for ex), foreigners et al and then discovered aliens which, by being less "like us" it was even more fun to kill in even more graphic ways. Now they have hit on Zombies whose killing they can depict with the greatest brutality of all.
The community needs to have an ongoing conversation with itself about what forms of expression are acceptable and what are harmful while acknowledging the difference between what is legally defensible and what is morally defensible.
yrs,
rubato
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 7:28 pm
by Joe Guy
The Trumpocalypse has truly arrived. In the seventh season of a show in which zombies have been shot, splattered, hammered, diced, dismembered and impaled, some viewers think the show might be getting a little too violent.
As to the T-Shirt, it's another case of people looking for something to offend them so they can publicly show their outrage and display their concern and love for all races.
It's a T-Shirt with a phrase from a TV show, you freakin' sissy!! Nothing is left out or implied!!
You know what? I'm offended by T-Shirts that say San Francisco Giants on them. Because everyone knows they are leaving out the part where it says that everyone in San Francisco is a big fat queer!
I'm also offended by Ginger Ale. You know what you get when you unscramble the word Ginger?
I'm gonna to sue Canada Dry and the rest of those racists!!
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 7:33 pm
by Lord Jim
You know what you get when you unscramble the word Ginger?
The name of the country, Niger?
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 7:48 pm
by Joe Guy
Yes Jim, that's what you get. Good guess. Now go back to your room and continue watching Mr Rogers' Neighborhood.
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:27 pm
by Gob
rubato wrote:The image is a graphic celebration of extreme violence.
Against zombies. You did know that, right?
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 2:02 am
by rubato
Gob wrote:rubato wrote:The image is a graphic celebration of extreme violence.
Against zombies. You did know that, right?
You did read my post right? Oh no.you didn't.
well go back to the remedial class then, asshole.
yrs,
rubato
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 3:40 am
by Gob
rubato wrote:
You did read my post right? Oh no.you didn't.
Of course I did Aspy.
You claim;
The emotional premise of the show is to create a humanoid which the viewer can then take pleasure and satisfaction in watching people kill.
Did you not know;
A humanoid (/ˈhjuːmənɔɪd/; from English human and -oid "resembling") is something that has an appearance resembling a human being.
A zombie is a human being,
A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, Haitian Creole: zonbi) is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse.
I'll go back to the remedial class then, I'm an asshole.
yrs,
rubato
Yes, off you go....
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 7:39 pm
by rubato
A zombie is a human being,
A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, Haitian Creole: zonbi) is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse.
" fictional undead being "
You don't know the meaning of "fictional"? Drinking sterno again?
yrs,
rubato
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:51 pm
by Joe Guy
Actually, the entire show is fiction in case you haven't noticed. It's a fictional show in which people kill other people who have died and come back to life.
You sure like to argue about stupid stuff...
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:05 pm
by Big RR
Perhaps a new fictional discussion--thor's hammer can only be lifted by those deemed worthy--who does that "deeming"? We know it isn't Thor, is it the hammer itself? Odin? Someone else?
Re: More snowflakeism
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 11:01 pm
by Gob
rubato wrote:
You don't know the meaning of "fictional"?
You don't know the meaning of "humanoid?
I'm drinking sterno again,
yrs,
rubato
