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If that's the way you wear t-shirts, how on earth do you put on your underpants?
It may well be that the designer of the Primark t shirt and the Primark buyer only know the Tiger version of the rhyme and have been completely surprised by all this - possibly they also both worked for Asda when the KKK outfits went onto their shelves in 2014. But, I think enough people know the N word version that plenty of people will find it offensive. Although I did get told to cover up my Speak English or Die t shirt nearly thirty years ago when I was completely naive about the idea anyone might find it offensive.
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KKK outfits at Asda? Damn missed out there. Seriously?
Edit: They were just wearable England Flags, no big deal.
I would be completely okay with this
What were they thinking?
Yeah, I remember the racist version of that rhyme but, if I were a black guy confronted with that shirt, I probably wouldn't be bothered.
I think it's a hell of a lot more offensive to be white and claiming racism than it is to be racist.
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You may as well shut down Tate and Lyle or Cotton Traders for their Grossly offensive racist derivation from Carribean plantation exploitation.........
Better still shut down Barclays bank that was the principle funder/benefactor/profiteer of the SlaveTrade -in fact Barclays was allegedly born on the back of the slave trade ..........people obviously are not so aware!
The merchandise should be removed on grounds of being tasteless cheap shit anyway.
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It also took me years to stop saying Paki shop, Phil's old favourite, ordering a chinky.... or referring to my japs eye.
I accept I grew up in an environment where these racial slurs were prevelant. I try to be a bit better than that.
The rhyme just appeared as I was watching Smurfs 2 with my daughter. It made me want to stamp on the next blue person I see
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North Liverpool is, however, one of the most benignly racist places I've ever lived (and I grew up here). It's shocking how normalised racism is here.
The largely Irish Catholic community here don't even think they're being racist when they use those terms. "But that's just the way we talk", "I don't mean anything by it", "I wouldn't care if they call me a honky, so why are they bothered?" etc. All true and recent excuses I've heard from people I work with! People who do, however, get very bothered by Irish slights or jokes about paedo priests. Go figure.
The T-shirt in question? As a WD fan, it would make sense to me on sight. To others not aware of the show and that specific episode? Probably not in a million years. Very much a "niche product".
For many in the 80's at least (for myself anyway) the term 'Paki' was a pretty nasty term be it in the playground or skinheads (pretty sure they weren't into the club scene in Vauxhall...). I find it perplexing that the term was used by some in a banal context, never the context I had experience of.
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I'm a bit taken back Primark are selling Walking Dead t-shirts though. Can't imagine such a niche product would have a place in such a shop.
I think the the bigger issue is that it's a really shit looking Tshirt.