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Re: Gollywogs are back!
Originally Posted by fish.01
(Post 10072000)
Weird, in 40+ years in Brisbane I've never heard an Aboriginal called a wog.
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Re: Gollywogs are back!
Originally Posted by fish.01
(Post 10071994)
Strange. I live in Brisbane and the only place I have noticed them being sold over the years is in the Melbourne CBD. One of the story comments say they are being sold in a "cheap shop" in Sydney too so maybe some pound shop owner has bought a job lot and flogging them in the tourist shops. The store in Melbourne was a fancy store though that specialised in them.
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Re: Gollywogs are back!
Originally Posted by scottishcelts
(Post 10072140)
They are in most little nic nac shops around here at the Bayside.
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Re: Gollywogs are back!
Originally Posted by Bernieboy
(Post 10072143)
Have you been nic nacking again:sneaky:
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Re: Gollywogs are back!
Shop in Bunbury WA been selling them as long as we been here (5years) I love em and certainly dont see them as racist
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Re: Gollywogs are back!
Originally Posted by scottishcelts
(Post 10072226)
I love to nic me nacs ;)
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Re: Gollywogs are back!
Originally Posted by daunted
(Post 10072236)
Shop in Bunbury WA been selling them as long as we been here (5years) I love em and certainly dont see them as racist
I also am keen to get a Woody doll, does that degrade American cowboys wearing a hat - I dont think so. Sometimes I think the problem is how we view the object, not the object itself. Now if anyone in Freo knows where they sell Gollies, give me a shout.:) |
Re: Gollywogs are back!
Originally Posted by Bernieboy
(Post 10072238)
You little nacker nicker.
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Re: Gollywogs are back!
Originally Posted by Bernieboy
(Post 10072238)
You little nacker nicker.
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Re: Gollywogs are back!
Originally Posted by Cheetah7
(Post 10072244)
Who has been playing with the nacker nickers?:lol:
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Re: Gollywogs are back!
Originally Posted by scottishcelts
(Post 10072140)
They are in most little nic nac shops around here at the Bayside.
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Re: Gollywogs are back!
Maybe one's perception of this depends on where/when one grew up. The problem with the golliwog doll isn't that it is black, but that it represents derisive racial stereotyping with the clown lips and big white grin that people did actually think was acceptable (cf some Tintin stories, etc.). They aren't actual "ethnic" or culturally representative dolls. They don't look like actual people at all, yet that is how black people were represented in Europe and the US (another example would be the black person eating the watermelon slice, etc.). This is the source of the problem - if they were just cuddly dolls, then fine, but they aren't. They are loaded with a long history of prejudice.
I don't know that it's a matter for governmental interference as to whether they should be on sale - just personal good taste I would have thought. |
Re: Gollywogs are back!
Originally Posted by Turban Explorer
(Post 10072046)
I've heard the PNGers and the Torres Straits Islanders called 'wogs' and 'fuzzies' in Cairns - less common than 'coons' and 'black bastards' - which is pretty standard fare.
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Racists cheese?
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Re: Gollywogs are back!
Originally Posted by Nice Guy
(Post 10072576)
Racists cheese?
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