tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273124520330547347.post6614819684446862420..comments2023-10-04T16:22:32.920+01:00Comments on Thanet Strife: GOLLIWOGGS, CHRISTIANS AND A DUTCHMANBertie Biggleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14197385124719226254noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273124520330547347.post-76509865577127825072009-02-17T14:52:00.000+00:002009-02-17T14:52:00.000+00:00In Thanet during the 1950s, presumably because of ...In Thanet during the 1950s, presumably because of the American airbases racial mix there were moves to have racial apartheid locally, Malcolm says he will dig out newspaper article, which he says is pretty unbelievable, when he does I will do a post about it.Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273124520330547347.post-83231831928852991732009-02-16T18:09:00.000+00:002009-02-16T18:09:00.000+00:0015.31, a valid point of view about a 'freedom' but...15.31, a valid point of view about a 'freedom' but please explain to me what you understand by the term racist as I do not see a child innocently playing with a rag doll in the 1950's or even today as being racist. My Oxford English Dictionary fails to come up with a definition that fits but has plenty about superiority/inferiority/antagonism/abilities, based on race which I understand as racism/racist/racialist and all of which I abhor. <BR/><BR/>As a 'volunteer Thought Police Officer' could you please explain my 'Thought Crime'? I can understand how a 'golliwogg' caricature can cause offence and I for one would be sensitive to not causing such offence; but this is not racism. You seem to throw the term racist and racism around in the same loose way that schools now do with the term, bullying.Bertie Biggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14197385124719226254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273124520330547347.post-42259928827900197162009-02-16T15:31:00.000+00:002009-02-16T15:31:00.000+00:00Freedom to slag off other peoples beliefs in publi...Freedom to slag off other peoples beliefs in public is not worth keeping.<BR/>The fact that you think there was nothing rascist in gollywogs for kids in the 50's just shows how far you are from understanding the issue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273124520330547347.post-60125325956527043522009-02-16T09:24:00.000+00:002009-02-16T09:24:00.000+00:00Couldn't agree more, very well put. Refreshing bit...Couldn't agree more, very well put. Refreshing bit of common sense after reading the puerile slanging match on Thanet Life!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com