racist T Shirt banned

[Ashtonian]

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/21/prima...e-walking-dead-t-shirts-from-shelves-6463153/

Primark has pulled a range of T-shirts from its stores after a complaint that they were offensive and racist.

The shirts showed a bloodied baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, which Negan uses to smash his victims’ heads to pieces, with the rhyme ‘Eeny, Meeny Miny, Moe’ written on it.

The killer, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the hit show about survivors of the zombie apocalypse, calls his bat Lucille and used it to kill long-standing favourites Glen and Abraham at the start of the most recent 7th season.

Before killing the pair, Negan – who leads a gang called The Saviours – decided on who to kill by pointing to his victims one by one with the baseball bat, while saying ‘eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a tiger by his toe’.

But after Sheffield couple Ian and Gwen Lucraft spotted the T-shirt in a Primark store in Sheffield last week, they complained to bosses that it was ‘offensive’.

He also said the bloodied bat was offensive, adding: ‘We were shocked when we came face to face with a new tTshirt with a racially explicit graphic and text.

‘It was fantastically offensive and I can only assume that no one in the process of ordering it knew what they were doing or were aware of its subliminal messages.’

He said that ‘everyone knows’ the ‘Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe’ phrase continues with ‘catch a n*gger’ by his toe’, adding: ‘The graphic has a large American baseball bat, wrapped round with barbed wire, and covered with blood.



This image relates directly to the practice of assaulting black people in America.

‘It is directly threatening of a racist assault, and if I were black and were faced by a wearer I would know just where I stood.’

Mr Lucraft wrote a letter to Primark chief exec Paul Marchant asking him to remove the T-shirt from sale – and bosses decided to remove it after the complaint.

A spokesman for Primark confirmed the T-shirts are now being removed from all of its stores, adding: ‘The T-shirt in question is licensed merchandise for the U.S. television series, The Walking Dead, and the quote and image are taken directly from the show.

‘Any offence caused by its design was wholly unintentional and Primark sincerely apologises for this.’

The Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe counting rhyme has been around since the 18th century, with tiger replacing ‘n***er’ in more recent versions.

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This is why i hate Society now. Banned because 100 years ago the rhyme was racist so it must have racist connotations now? Because one tit walked into the place and decided to get offended by it? More so he isn't even black ffs, so it didn't even offend him in any way possible.

Just really annoys me reading this on a daily basis, the fact primark actually listened to him and pulled it was just as bad. It justifies his comments, full of crap.

Also what isn't being reported fully is;

1. It is a line out of the walking dead
2. The line continues with the tiger line
3. He then attacks a white person with the bat.

But oh no, the shirt is clearly racist and the only people who will wear it are doing so to send a threatening message to a certain skin colour.

All because one man in sheffield said so based on something that is even 50-60 years out of date.

 

[Seathestars]

Have you had a vape today Ash, you should

 

[Brendan Janus]

Understandable I guess !!

 

[Thomasc]

"He said that ‘everyone knows’ the ‘Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe’ phrase continues with ‘catch a n*gger’ by his toe’, adding: ‘The graphic has a large American baseball bat, wrapped round with barbed wire, and covered with blood."


Or alternatively people with less of a pathetic mind also know the "catch a baby by it's toe" version.

What an absolute dickwad of the highest order.

 

[Bungle]

More so he isn't even black ffs, so it didn't even offend him in any way possible.

That is quite beautiful logic there

 

[COYBL25]

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/21/prima...e-walking-dead-t-shirts-from-shelves-6463153/



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This is why i hate Society now. Banned because 100 years ago the rhyme was racist so it must have racist connotations now? Because one tit walked into the place and decided to get offended by it? More so he isn't even black ffs, so it didn't even offend him in any way possible.

Just really annoys me reading this on a daily basis, the fact primark actually listened to him and pulled it was just as bad. It justifies his comments, full of crap.

Also what isn't being reported fully is;

1. It is a line out of the walking dead
2. The line continues with the tiger line
3. He then attacks a white person with the bat.

But oh no, the shirt is clearly racist and the only people who will wear it are doing so to send a threatening message to a certain skin colour.

All because one man in sheffield said so based on something that is even 50-60 years out of date.

I for one would like to welcome the old @Ashtonian back

Welcome back you mentalist x

 

[dublinbluenose]

"He said that ‘everyone knows’ the ‘Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe’ phrase continues with ‘catch a n*gger’ by his toe’, adding: ‘The graphic has a large American baseball bat, wrapped round with barbed wire, and covered with blood."


Or alternatively people with less of a pathetic mind also know the "catch a baby by it's toe" version.

What an absolute dickwad of the highest order.

Because bashing a babies head in is less offensive?

 

[COYBL25]

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/21/prima...e-walking-dead-t-shirts-from-shelves-6463153/



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This is why i hate Society now. Banned because 100 years ago the rhyme was racist so it must have racist connotations now? Because one tit walked into the place and decided to get offended by it? More so he isn't even black ffs, so it didn't even offend him in any way possible.

Just really annoys me reading this on a daily basis, the fact primark actually listened to him and pulled it was just as bad. It justifies his comments, full of crap.

Also what isn't being reported fully is;

1. It is a line out of the walking dead
2. The line continues with the tiger line
3. He then attacks a white person with the bat.

But oh no, the shirt is clearly racist and the only people who will wear it are doing so to send a threatening message to a certain skin colour.

All because one man in sheffield said so based on something that is even 50-60 years out of date.

Being serious for a mo here Ash.

I can see why it's been banned tbh.

Everyone knows how that rhyme ends.

No matter how you dress it up, people would think of the racist ending when they see the rhyme.

Primark is for scruffs anyway, so they've done us a favour.

 

[Sapie88]

Being serious for a mo here Ash.

I can see why it's been banned tbh.

Everyone knows how that rhyme ends.

No matter how you dress it up, people would think of the racist ending when they see the rhyme.

Primark is for scruffs anyway, so they've done us a favour.

People who wear The Walking Dead clothing, or even watch it should be banned also.

 

[tommye]

Ash being a complete dîckhead shocker.

Nothing to see here

 

[Thomasc]

Because bashing a babies head in is less offensive?

No mate, course not, it's not real though.

It's just a silly rhyme, nobody is offended by it really.

 

[EddyD]

What an utter clown this Ashtonian is.

 

[Moomin]

So by this logic, if I see blatant sexism in the workplace I should dismiss it because I'm a man??

 

[Bungle]

So by this logic, if I see blatant sexism in the workplace I should dismiss it because I'm a man??

Unless you've sucked a cock don't even think about getting offended when you witness homophobic abuse.

 

[BlueLlama]

The utter stupidity of @Ashtonian in the op is actually staggering.

Can't see why a bloody baseball bat with a rhyme associated with racism may offend.

Thinks you can only be offended by something that relates to your own skin colour.

The above makes you hate society? I think it probably makes society hate you.