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The fact of the matter is boo,s kids will grow up to think there better than black people.Thats exactly why I hate pats chat.

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@Mr Harp wrote:

Hello again Moon,

An interesting article in the Guardian which says far more eloquently than I could, what I was aiming at in my previous post to you. Read the full post to understand the context.

Btw Moon, keep smiling and don’t take the bait, some posters, persistently, aim your way.

:roll:

“Where does one begin? With the dog-whistling about “indigenous white people”? With the classic solipsistic implication that because he didn’t experience golliwog dolls as racist, no one else should either? Or with the invocation of childhood innocence, a typical strategy for avoiding historical reality by conjuring a past seemingly undisturbed by racism?

Perhaps it would be useful to discuss the tradition of dehumanising racist caricature to which these dolls belong. The English-American author Florence Upton invented the golliwog in a series of picture books produced at the onset of the Jim Crow laws, which mandated racial segregation in the American South. She described the character as “a horrid sight, the blackest gnome”. He was clothed in the same apparel as the black-faced minstrels then prevalent in Europe and North America. He had thick lips, unruly black hair, and his hands and feet were paws.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/21/golliwogs-vile-throwback-tory-mps

that’s a mighty big post there,a pound to a penny peole don’t think that way.,some do w cant do nothing about that.

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@boojangle wrote:

@moonshadow wrote:

@boojangle wrote:

When your kid comes home bleating that she cant clim the ladder lol
what you don’t get is people can be people withought hanging on to insulting .I can see the pitty right now in your doughters eyes,honest I don’t think your a gollywog.make fun of off

Pardon? Sorry Moon but I have no clue as to what point you are trying to make? What do ladders and pity have to do with gollies?

Your going to find out.I really don’t think your racist.Look at the doll though its a caricature of a black person.Its not funny and its in no way nice.Way down in the sub conscious your teaching your kids to disrespect other people.How di I know you were polis best friend.

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@Bemused Bystander wrote:

I have a mug with a golly on it. It’s just another mug. I bought it years ago because it reminded me of my childhood and the gollys on the side of jars of Robertson’s marmalade.

Although it was bought for nostalgic reasons, I’d never take it to work to use, mainly because of fear of offending others.

I do wonder however, if white people err on the side of caution unnecessarily. Is it white people who decide what black people would find offensive, or is it black people themselves? I often wonder.

My daughter had a black boyfriend a few years ago, he went to make a cup of tea and saw said mug in the cupboard. He brought it out and said ‘God, haven’t seen a golly in years’ and promptly used it then and each time afterwards. Was he offended by it? I don’t think so and no offence was intended.

The problem I think, is perception.

You don’t think so lol

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@boojangle wrote:

When your kid comes home bleating that she cant clim the ladder lol
what you don’t get is people can be people withought hanging on to insulting .I can see the pitty right now in your doughters eyes,honest I don’t think your a gollywog.Fuck off

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You mooing at poli andfasts go for?

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@annette-curtain wrote:

@moonshadow wrote:

@blossom. wrote:

Thanks Moon .

What would I do, without you :lol:

Im sick of that thing trying to make herself the big woman by abusing people.

Okay …. just had a nap , so maybe my head is still on the pillow but…

I’m lost now ..who is ” that thing ” ?? :?

Lucy my old pet hate from patschat.Who tries to wind me up with her lies.

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What I do wrong? :?

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@boojangle wrote:

I’ve been very lucky in the past six months as a local lady has been selling off her collection of Golly’s (much to the distaste of others) I’ve purchased quite a few for my lil princess… and explained to her WHY some people have issues with the dolls! Neither me nor her see anything beyond them being a toy from my childhood.. she also has Frustration and Battleships. Innocence is a fab thing to posses, as is knowledge! I would like to think that I have raised my children well and taught them to accept all regardless of faith, race, sexual orientation etc. The gollys wont affect that!

rofl

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@blossom. wrote:

Thanks Moon .

What would I do, without you :lol:

Im sick of that thing trying to make herself the big woman by abusing people.

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