Are gollies no longer offensive to ebay?

[imastawka]

There are always listings for gollies.  

The bots used to remove them.

But they are still being listed.  And I mean the toys, not publications with the name

in the title - that's allowed.

When this first hit the boards and there was an uproar, the bots were removing

everything.

But not anymore, it seems.   They appear to  be selling well.

I do not mean to start a for/against argument. 

Just stating what's for sale now on ebay.

[collect247]

It does look that way now

[enigmabear]

Funnily enough I only walked past a shop yesterday that had a huge display of them in the window

My first thought was 'ebay would have a dummy spit' 

[imastawka]

But why aren't the bots picking them up?

If ebay are gunna have a racial intolerance policy, then they should police it.

http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/policies/offensive.html

(yeah, I know, they don't follow their own policies on anything else, so why

should this one be any different?)

[enigmabear]

Maybe the bots came out with so much (other b word ending in ll) the bots broke?

Not sure. Another one gone pseudo policy 

[kopenhagen5]

But weren't they made in the first place because doll makers were being biased and certain ethnics felt left out.

[imastawka]

Seriously?   Bit of reading for ya -

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

[kopenhagen5]

Perhaps I'm confused with dark skinned dolls. 

No, my remark had ones tongue placed on the inside of ones cheek. 

Interesting read, thanks.