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Old 23-02-2017, 04:41 PM #11
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Originally Posted by Jamie89 View Post
It didn't strike me as racist, I suppose if you associate the 'eeny meeny miny moe' line with racism then I can understand why someone would be offended seeing it (and if they haven't seen Walking Dead to get the reference) and I don't have a problem with that, you can't dictate what people should and shouldn't be offended by, but we shouldn't be banning everything that causes offence so Primark shouldn't have caved imo.
Anyone who's going to take it upon themselves to publicly proclaim something is racist has an obligation to educate themselves on the context first. I could understand somebody being taken aback at first and then trying to find out more about it but this guy clearly went from step 1 straight to public moral outrage and made himself look like an absolute fool in the process.

And "if I was black I'd react like this" is massively problematic itself.
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