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Calder makes designs including Gollys!
Hurrah for the politically incorrect!
Calder makes designs including Gollys!
Hurrah for the politically incorrect!
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BikerGran
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My daughter is at this very moment sitting in a campervan in Morzine in the Alps inputting teddy bears to a site run by her other half for a shop near here - as well as bears they sell Gollies!
http://www.corfebears.co.uk/osc-39-Gollies.php
http://www.corfebears.co.uk/osc-39-Gollies.php
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Falcomille
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Was listening to the Vine show on Thursday lunchtime while driving down to Kent, and listening to this spokesperson berating the Queen and Carol Thatcher for their Golliwog comments/sales, and she was banging on about how it offends her and her ilk, bringing up bad memories of salvery and racism.
I must admit in those days long ago when I was eating my toast and looking at the marmalade label, I didn't feel at all racist.
Must be my age I suppose...
I must admit in those days long ago when I was eating my toast and looking at the marmalade label, I didn't feel at all racist.
Must be my age I suppose...
Yeah .... I wonder how the psychology of all this works.
As kids we had Gollies - along with assorted other cuddly toys. We grew to love our Gollies.
Then this anti-Gollie thing started and we began to feel ashamed of our Gollies and our warm-positive feelings became negative feelings. What is so good about that?!
Now I'm not sure why the negative stuff started. Is it because the Gollie is a caricature? .... well aren't all cuddly toys and dolls a caricature. Don't think I thought of my Golly of having any ethnicity ... he was just my gollie.
And where did this slavery link come from?
Slavery was a terrible thing but I never ever considered having a Golly as a way of making a statement that I support slavery - that would be absurd.
It's like those that seem to try to hold you responsible for slavery because you happen to have been born white in a country that shamefully exploited slavery in the past. Yes it happened, Yes it was wrong, No I do not support it, No it's not my fault it happened and Yes I'm very glad that Wilberforce, Newton and others worked hard to stop the trade as it was then practised.
I think that some still try to place the blame on us as we enjoy the wealth of a nation that is partly built on the proceeds of slavery. Yep we do - and on a powerful trading position that exploits weaker nations ... and built on market protectionism etc etc. That all may be true but I can't easily escape it and I don't know of any nations to join that don't have some blot on their copybook ..... that and the fact that most of these people that seem to suggest this handed-down guilt are themselves American or British and also enjoy this same national wealth ......
Sorry, Rant Over
As kids we had Gollies - along with assorted other cuddly toys. We grew to love our Gollies.
Then this anti-Gollie thing started and we began to feel ashamed of our Gollies and our warm-positive feelings became negative feelings. What is so good about that?!
Now I'm not sure why the negative stuff started. Is it because the Gollie is a caricature? .... well aren't all cuddly toys and dolls a caricature. Don't think I thought of my Golly of having any ethnicity ... he was just my gollie.
And where did this slavery link come from?
Slavery was a terrible thing but I never ever considered having a Golly as a way of making a statement that I support slavery - that would be absurd.
It's like those that seem to try to hold you responsible for slavery because you happen to have been born white in a country that shamefully exploited slavery in the past. Yes it happened, Yes it was wrong, No I do not support it, No it's not my fault it happened and Yes I'm very glad that Wilberforce, Newton and others worked hard to stop the trade as it was then practised.
I think that some still try to place the blame on us as we enjoy the wealth of a nation that is partly built on the proceeds of slavery. Yep we do - and on a powerful trading position that exploits weaker nations ... and built on market protectionism etc etc. That all may be true but I can't easily escape it and I don't know of any nations to join that don't have some blot on their copybook ..... that and the fact that most of these people that seem to suggest this handed-down guilt are themselves American or British and also enjoy this same national wealth ......
Sorry, Rant Over