Oh, jeez. "Racist" Walking Dead T-Shirt pulled due to complaints

[Jeremiahcp]

What's that supposed to mean?

Personally, I think his switch got knocked to babble mode.

 

[Father Heathen]

Ah, I see we are in the last word phase of our back and forth.

I was just having fun. Don't be mad.

 

[Father Heathen]

What's that supposed to mean?

The same thing it being "gay" meant, I guess.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

I was just having fun. Don't be mad.

Sorry, sometimes I just can't control my powerful rage.

 

[illykitty]

Where has this pastor's mind been at that he automatically thinks it automatically jumps to a racist statement at the end and that "everybody knows" it automatically does so?
Whatever happened to "catch a tiger by its toe," or even just a children's playground game of picking someone who is "it?"

That is honestly the only version I was aware of. I've never heard the racist version. Anyway this is just ridiculous.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

That is honestly the only version I was aware of. I've never heard the racist version. Anyway this is just ridiculous.

There is a possibility it is a regional thing.

 

[The Kilted Heathen]

Yes, how dare people get offend, the nerve of those people finding something offensive. Then the audacity to complain about it, well it just boils my blood.

In a week you'll forget this horrible outrage and you'll move on to the next horrible outrage, just like the people that got bent over the t-shirt.

Actually, this is just one more example of a laundry list of SJW grievances that are ever-limiting free speech in our supposedly free nation. It's not about the shirt, it's about the ridiculous catalyst of "Eenie meenie miney mo" because waaaaay back when they used "the N word" instead of "tiger".

When does it stop?

 

[Revoltingest]

It seems that if some people took a Rorschach test, every inkblot would depict something racist.

Primark pull 'racist and offensive' 'Walking Dead' t-shirts from sale - NME

May they drown in a pool of their own tears.

So the SJWs aren't offended by the reference to Negan's beating people to death with Lucille.
But they're upset with the possibly micro-aggressive rhyme?

 

[Jeremiahcp]

Actually, this is just one more example of a laundry list of SJW grievances that are ever-limiting free speech in our supposedly free nation. It's not about the shirt, it's about the ridiculous catalyst of "Eenie meenie miney mo" because waaaaay back when they used "the N word" instead of "tiger".

When does it stop?

I am sorry but I don't understand. Do you support free speech or not?

 

[The Kilted Heathen]

I do.

They have the right to be offended, to be "up in arms" and [REDACTED] about "subtle racism" all they want. But what gives them the right to pressure until the offending speech is removed from their delicate presence? That it's "2017 already"?

 

[Jeremiahcp]

I do.

They have the right to be offended, to be "up in arms" and [REDACTED] about "subtle racism" all they want. But what gives them the right to pressure until the offending speech is removed from their delicate presence? That it's "2017 already"?

The Constitution.

 

[The Kilted Heathen]

Where, in the constitution, are they given right to restrict the speech of others?

 

[Jeremiahcp]

Where, in the constitution, are they given right to restrict the speech of others?

So you think they did something illegal?

 

[Jeremiahcp]

Now it is one thing to say "I don't like what they did", but it is quite another to claim they didn't have the right to complain.

 

[columbus]

That is honestly the only version I was aware of. I've never heard the racist version. Anyway this is just ridiculous.

You must be younger than me, near 60. The unPC version was the only one I knew until I was an adult.
I remember being called out for using it. It might have been my mom, possibly an aunt. "That is not a nice word and not a nice rhyme. I will not tolerate hearing it again in this house. Do you all understand? "

We all nodded. Well behaved children, eager to please, we knew we had to whisper it from now on. So we did.
Tom

 

[The Kilted Heathen]

So you think they did something illegal?

Unconstitutional, certainly.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

Unconstitutional, certainly.

Show me in the Constitution please.

 

[The Kilted Heathen]

The First Amendment states that freedom of speech shall not be abridged.

When Ian and Gwen Lucraft objected to the shirt, they were within their rights. When they got it pulled, they were not. His reasoning that the shirt is "racially explicit" and directly linked to race crimes is preposterous and unfounded, especially given the stronger social presence of shows and fandoms like The Walking Dead. Their association of the shirt with racism says more about them than the designer of the shirt.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

The First Amendment states that freedom of speech shall not be abridged.

When Ian and Gwen Lucraft objected to the shirt, they were within their rights. When they got it pulled, they were not. His reasoning that the shirt is "racially explicit" and directly linked to race crimes is preposterous and unfounded, especially given the stronger social presence of shows and fandoms like The Walking Dead. Their association of the shirt with racism says more about them than the designer of the shirt.

You really need to learn how to read:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

Like it or not, Methodist minister Mr Lucraft was well within his constitutional rights to complain. And no one actually forced Primark to pull the shirt that was their choice.