‘Walking Dead’ T-shirt Pulled For ‘Racist’ Phrase You Didn’t Even Know Was Offensive
Another day, another Internet outrage over something you probably didn’t even know you were supposed to feel outraged about.
Today it’s a shirt, specifically a Walking Dead shirt by Primark that was pulled for being “racist” and “offensive.”
As you can see,it depicts a baseball bat covered in barbed wire and the phrase, “Eeny meeny miny moe,” which The Walking Dead’s Negan said as he picked out his victim in the show’s Season 6 finale.
On the show and how most people know it the line is followed by catch a tiger by his toe.
Apparently the rhyme has an unclear history, and some earlier versions did include a racial slur, as tiger was replaced by the N-word, which is what caused the complaint.
Acustomer named Ian Luncraft complained to Primark and said that he and his wife were “shocked” when they saw the t-shirt, and called it “fantastically offensive.”
via: YouTube
“This image relates directly to the practice of assaulting black people in America,” Luncraft said. “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,” he added.
After the outcry, Primark pulled the t-shirt from stores and issued the following statement:
Of course there’s reaction and backlash to the backlash, with people saying it’s ridiculous that the shirt was pulled.
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