Racist and Hateful? or Much Loved Toy

[imastawka]

Ebay have removed listings, worldwide, in the last couple of days

for Golliwog/Golly citing the 'hateful or discriminatory policy.'

Aunt Jemima dolls (mammy dolls)  have also gone

The weird part is, there was a sub-category in Dolls/Bears for Golliwogs

All things Golliwog have disappeared.

Books including ones by Enid Blyton have gone. 

It's ok to sell them, just don't put golliwog/golly in the title.

I have been informed that I need to be educated on the matter,

and have been given links to things like the Jim Crow Museum

 http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/golliwog/

My own opinion is, I love gollies.    I can see no relevance to them in Australia.

I think they are/were a much loved toy with no underlying racial tones.

A lot of people may be upset by the images, but I think Ebay has just made

them worth a lot more money on other sites.

I'm not looking for an argument, and you won't get one.

I would just like some more opinions.

It started on the Selling Boards

http://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Selling/Item-specific-Listing-Removed-Sick-Of-It/td-p/1834945

I would hope that opinions do not run too hot,  and turn into arguments.

[iapetus_rocks]

When I was a child (many, many decades ago I am sad to admit)

 I had a golliwog. I also had blue teddy & koala, as well as minnie mouse.

I remember them all well.

I loved them all and I had no idea golly was based on any living creature, I just thought he was a... soft toy. A fantasy. Like fairies, goblins, leprechauns and so on.

And nowadays, would you trust a fairy, goblin, leprechaun, if you met them? (this question requires that you suspend your disbelief for the moment)

(I still have a blue teddy, but I never trusted it . . . because it's not a real person.)

[Anonymous]

i didn't point out your spelling error when 

replying with quote as it was obviously 

attributed to you.

when quoting without attribution however,

i prefer to indicate the error is not mine.

i never thought inserting  sic erat scriptum  

was a demonstration of superiority.   

I hope focusing on my spelling on this thread and a single post, rather than the content of my posts

well, in my defence, there was not much else

to focus on in that post:

thecatspjs wrote:

Night all.

Thanks for the "rivetting" highly intellectual, "informed" discussion.  

*yawn*

[Anonymous]

how rude of me 

good night to you too, thecatspjs  

[thecatspjs]

The best thing of all is that your posts speak for themselves with no content aside from nitpicking everything else aside from matters pertaiing topic.

*sigh*

[mic_yr06xmb8c]

HOLD UP....... HOLD UP......  HERE PEOPLE.... 

SO ITS OK TO HAVE GRAPHICS OF LIFE LIKE LOOKING DOLLS WHO LOOK DARK SKINNED OR DESIGNED... AND BE LABELED BLACK...... BUT GOLLYWOG WHICH IS AN OLD AND NOW UNRELATED NAME TO THE SUBJECT...  MIGHT I ADD LOOKS NOTHING LIKE A DARKER SKINNED PERSON IS CONSIDERED RACIST..... UMM...... WHO MISSED WHAT??? I SURE AS HELL DIDNT MISS THIS!!!! IF I WALKED OUT MY DOOR TOMORROW AND CALLED SOMEONE BLACK ID BE IN TROUBLE BUT EBAY AND EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE FINE WITH REPLICA AND LIFE LIKE DOLLS WEARING THE BANNER...  

GOLLYWOGS ARE ART DECO NOT REPLICA THEREFORE NOT RACIST! GO TRY IT NOW.... EBAY SEARCH BLACK DOLL AND SEE WHAT YOU GET. .. IT WONT BE A GOLLYWOG.

[iapetus_rocks]

My ears eyes hurt.

[imastawka]

Does that ID belong to Superman's little friend?

                                

[channys_mum]

I have two golliwogs, 1 male and 1 female, and I have one of those money boxes where you put the penny in the non-white man's hand, pull a lever and he puts it in his mouth.

Standing next to him is a white clown. I don't take offense at the clown being white.

I get referred to as white, but I am not actually, I am Caucasian.

So why is it ok to say I am white and not ok to say that an indigenous person is black.

I never used to see skin colour, people were people. Some were good, some were not. I considered we were all equal.

 Now because I have to be so careful of offending I have to actually notice the differences.

How sad is that

[Anonymous]

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@thecatspjs wrote:

The best thing of all is that your posts speak for themselves with no content aside from nitpicking everything else aside from matters pertaiing topic.

*sigh*

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the best thing of all?  ok  

but

most of my posts are referring to the

topic though.

questioning the wiki quote on the other hand

was completely unnecessary (and irrelevant)

as it is easy enough to verify it.  

(in case you didn't know and for future reference,

just follow the citations. look!  you may have learnt

something knew after all)  

[Anonymous]

 Now because I have to be so careful of offending I have to actually notice the differences.

so true!!!