Re: Yes, it's racist and offensive.
Re: Re: Yes, it's racist and offensive. -- roark	Top of thread	Post Reply	Forum

Posted by: AJW ® 10/24/2017, 16:27:22 Author Profile Edit Alert Forum Admin Post Reply

Hi Mike, Just because something is on a T-shirt doesn't prevent it from being racist. Would  you consider a T-shirt using racial stereotypes to make fun of Jews, Negroes, Chinese, or any other minority group, funny? Then why is it OK to stereotype the Irish? The Irish have     had a hard enough time of it in the UK. In the 1950s many   boarding houses displayed signs saying, No dogs. No Blacks. No Irish. There are lots of jokes portraying the Irish as drunks, and stupid idiots. Enough is enough. I accept you didn't want to offend anyone, but you did. There's enough racism around without importing it onto the forum, albeit unwittingly. Anth Modified by AJW at Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 16:31:25

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