Primark forced to remove racist t-shirt from sale

[Soubriquet]

link

I don't watch the walking dead. So this reference would have gone straight over my head.

But again I'm the generation who sang catch a tiger by its toe so wouldn't have immediately gotten the racist connection either.

But once it was pointed out, I got it and agree it should definitely be removed

What were they thinking making this?

I don't think it is racist because of the context.

Not sure what the problem is. T-shirt was printed referring to a TV show, but had unfortunate racist connotations. T-shirt was withdrawn from sale, once this was pointed out. All good, surely!

Had no clue about the connotations....

It's not so much the rhyme on its own that's that problem.

It's the combination of the rhyme and the bat. There's unavoidable historical connotations to those image.

To say that there are not is naive.

Ffs, it's a reference to The Walking Dead. There's nothing racist about it at all!

There aren't very many things more bloody irritating than people who are offended on behalf of someone else (especially when they get it spectacularly wrong).

Primark should have ignored his ridiculous complaint. He clearly needs to get a life.

"People just want to be permanently offended"
Yes, you're right. The thrill of finding things racist is what keeps my heart beating.

I'm glad they pulled the T shirt, well done primark.

then all items with conotations and the n word should be removed aswell

but theyre not so its hypocritical

I agree it should have been removed from sale. Just because I and many others dont automatically think of the racial connotations doesn't mean they aren't there.

^^

I only knew of THAT n word version on mumsnet

It was nipper when i heard it

Have no problem with the t shirt being removed from sale

Here's a link to the Sun article - the t shirt quite clearly has a label on it saying 'The Walking Dead'.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/2916848/the-walking-dead-fans-fury-primark-racist-tshirt/amp/

I'm astonished that people don't see an issue with this. It must be an age thing though.

nothing to do with age best im 42 and dont go round getting offended by a word that isnt even there

I watch TWD but I don't know why would you even want that slogan on a t-shirt, even without any racist connotations? Negan is depraved and has no redeeming features. It's just for shock value, or an 'in-joke' for deadheads.

Yes, dh says the piggy one, to our son. Catch a piggy by its toe, never heard of the racist one.

I don't know Best my children are in primary school and they'd understand the issue.

I'm a bit disappointed that so many MNers do not.

I'm an 80s child and we sang tinker which is equally racist but different. I can see why it could offend.

It's the combination of the rhyme and the baseball bat - so overt violence and a potentially racist undertone. That's an unpleasant and unsettling combination.

As for NWA - that's not the same. A group of black musicians who choose that moniker for themselves is something else entirely.

ok i give up i wont sing bah bah black sheep either just incase....

What on earth were they thinking of?

Are we also up for banning Mark Twain, Lovecraft and Gone With The Wind then?

I'm of the generation that sung "tigger", but I am aware of what the word used to be and completely agree that the T-shirt is offensive.
It's all about context, isn't it?
"Eeenie meeny miny mo" = not racist.
"Eeenie meeny miny mo" next to the image of a bloody baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire = very, very, lynchy.

I know that the T-shirt was referencing the walking dead rather than racist lynch mobs, but really someone should have spotted the problem before this ever got to the shelves.

I watch TWD, and I think 99.9% of viewers wouldn't have read anything whatsoever in to that, nothing at all. All Negan was doing was picking out a victim. If the complainer watched TWD, then they'd see that there are all races in the programme and it's anything but "rascist". it was just a tea-shirt.

My friends and I used the racist one at school unfortunately, although we had absolutely no idea what it meant. I didn't hear the n-word in context until much later and was generally brought up in a very accepting and open-minded household. -Same here. I was born early 80s, the racist version was still said at our school until at least the 90s. I had no idea what the word even meant until I was much older.

No SaucyJack, of course not. That's not comparable at all.