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you don't think i'm that thick that i'm surprised that "love sees no colour" do you?
I don't know, you seemed very perplexed in that thread.
you don't think i'm that thick that i'm surprised that "love sees no colour" do you?
Demographics and numbers aside, why even be suprised that love sees no color?
Are people more likely to fall in love with someone of a similar cultural background, or a different one? And, realistically, isn't race tied up with cultural background, for many people?
And this was part of my point in that particular thread. But his line of thinking was "it seemed like a high number for a country with such a huge population", which I found even more perplexing.Granted, this is perhaps less of a factor in the US, which is a nation founded by immigrants and where there is probably more shared culture among different races than in most societies.
Am I the only one who thinks it's hilarious that the basic premise here is "A black person is coming. Quick, hide all our racist shit"?
The golliwog, just like blackface, is no longer socially acceptable.
Fuck, I call black people 'black', and am generally pretty tired of forced political correctness, and I realize that these things are based on cartoonish parodies of black features and are pretty bad news.
Australia has its own bad, very bad history towards darker-coloured folks, so it's kind of surprising that there is any kind of argument in favour of the shopkeeper.
The golliwog, just like blackface, is no longer socially acceptable.
Fuck, I call black people 'black', and am generally pretty tired of forced political correctness, and I realize that these things are based on cartoonish parodies of black features and are pretty bad news.
Australia has its own bad, very bad history towards darker-coloured folks, so it's kind of surprising that there is any kind of argument in favour of the shopkeeper.
"How many of you here have ancestors who were slaves?" I ask the class.
All the black students raise their hand.
I raise my hand. I'm a white guy.
The reaction from all students is normal.
Why did you raise your hand?
"You're white."
My answer, it does not matter what our race is, we all have ancestors who were enslaved.
Slavery has existed in history through all cultures and races.
Do a google search and you will find it exists today.
"How many of you here have ancestors who were slaves?" I ask the class.
All the black students raise their hand.
I raise my hand. I'm a white guy.
The reaction from all students is normal.
Why did you raise your hand?
"You're white."
My answer, it does not matter what our race is, we all have ancestors who were enslaved.
Slavery has existed in history through all cultures and races.
Do a google search and you will find it exists today.
the iron horse, I really have a big problem with your teaching style based on that example and I'm not being flippant either.
The claim that Golliwogs are racist is supported by literary depictions by writers such as Enid Blyton. Unlike Florence Upton's, Blyton's Golliwogs were often rude, mischievous, elfin villains. In Blyton's book, Here Comes Noddy Again, a Golliwog asks the hero for help, then steals his car. Blyton, one of the most prolific European writers, included the Golliwogs in many stories, but she only wrote three books primarily about Golliwogs: The Three Golliwogs (1944), The Proud Golliwog (1951), and The Golliwog Grumbled (1953). Her depictions of Golliwogs are, by contemporary standards, racially insensitive. An excerpt from The Three Golliwogs is illustrative:
Once the three bold golliwogs, Golly, Woggie, and ******, decided to go for a walk to Bumble-Bee Common. Golly wasn't quite ready so Woggie and ****** said they would start off without him, and Golly would catch them up as soon as he could. So off went Woogie and ******, arm-in-arm, singing merrily their favourite song -- which, as you may guess, was Ten Little ****** Boys.
Ten Little Niggers is the name of a children's poem, sometimes set to music, which celebrates the deaths of ten Black children, one-by-one. The Three Golliwogs was reprinted as recently as 1968, and it still contained the above passage. Ten Little Niggers was also the name of a 1939 Agatha Christie novel, whose cover showed a Golliwog lynched, hanging from a noose.