The version we used was baby
I've been before when my children were small, so probably a good 10-15 years ago. I can't remember if they hid the unacceptable toys or not. I remember it being a 'proper' museum (not one those odd collections of someones personal ephemera that you can get in small towns) so I don't think that they would. It is probably worth another visit sometime.Have you ever visited the Toy Museum in Bethnal Green? I often see it on the train into Liverpool St Station, and have wondered if they have evidence of our head-turningly bad stuff in the past. I quite fancy having a nose around.
I'm from the US, and born in 1971. It was never the N-word at any point in my childhood.I was born in 72 and when we used it we knew it was N-word but it was often changed to something else. I can't actually recall what we said but it wasn't tiger.
If it wasn't racist in the first place, then became racist, then is back to not being racist, what then?Which also kind of raises the question: if it was a racist rhyme, but was cleaned up by exchanging "tiger" for "n--", then is it still offensive? I mean, it's not very disguised, is it? But perhaps it isn't offensive. Argh. I don't know.
I think it just comes down to a perspective problem. TWD and general zombie fandom is large enough for a TWD fan to assume that their references are truly pop culture, not just inside jokes.Yes, I agree, but I don't think it's possible to undo that phase when it is offensive and pretend it didn't happen.
If we were talking about historical use of the word that would be different but this isn't an Olde English t-shirt or anything. The fact that it's from a tv show that most people don't watch, is clearly about violence (because of the blood-stained club) and references a rhyme which uses language about PoC that we now find deeply offensive does give an impression that probably wasn't what the people who made it intended.
Are you talking about African Americans that have had no exposure to UK culture? Why would they be offended? As I pointed out, it takes a foreign perspective or a lot of detective work to even connect that rhyme with racism, and then presume that the kind of racism related to the slave trade connects to baseball bats.That said, I doubt many African Americans I know - if any - would be 'cool' with the t-shirt.
As I pointed out, it takes a foreign perspective or a lot of detective work to even connect that rhyme with racism, and then presume that the kind of racism related to the slave trade connects to baseball bats.
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