That was not racist then

[willsham45]

Can you think of anything, probally when you were a kid that was fine, but if done now would be shunned, or bad mouthed as being none P.C.

For example when I was young and my mum was out later than expected my dad would say maybe she has been taken away by a large black man.

 

[manythings]

Eeny meeny miney mo, catch a ****** by the toe. Yes, That was the original rhyme, none of this tiger stuff...I suppose you could still say Tiger and it could be technically racist.

We all used to say it when we were kids here but it was a set of sounds used to pick who was It and I don't think I even learned what the Hard N meant till I was like 15.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

Everyone in my primary school was quite racist. It was all white people, with a handful of black children, and the area I'm in is less than great so a lot of people would be racist because their parents were. One time when I was walking home my mum was telling another parent a story that ended in dissatisfaction, so I said "damn paki". The other children laughed because they found it funny, and I got a smack on the head. I had no idea what it meant.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

No, I don't recall saying anything racist back when I was okay, although when I was a kid, growing up in my family, anything I said if racist, well, I would have been beaten.

EDIT: After reading the poster above me I do have to say that my school, all throughout Primary, Elementary, and Junior High, it was all white people, there was half white half black guy but that was it

 

[Wadders]

Can't think of anything offhand, but I've got something vaguely relevant.

My grandparents are prety racist because it was OK back in the day when they were young, and they're not gonna change at the age of 80+

For example my nan once said that she was having a bad day because of the snow and ice, then she had to queue in the supermarket, and to top it off she got served by a bloody darkie.

I love my nan

 

[Queen Michael]

I suppose you could still say Tiger and it could be technically racist.

How?

In Sweden we have these delicious things called negro-balls. They look like this:

Obviously, there has been debates about the name...

 

[Vrex360]

Gollywogs:

At the time they were considered just cute cuddly dolls for the kiddies but now we look at them and see the racism behind making dolls of stereotypical depictions of black people. But at the time, it wasn't a problem.

Same with some of the older Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoons, nothing hurts more really then to see beloved cartoon characters mocking ethnics by pretending to be in the Black and White minstrel show, but there you go.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

I live in Australia where pretty much everyone (all races) are racist or at least jokingly racist to some degree.

Also, inb4 Avenue Q "Everyone's a little bit racist"

 

[Turing]

The word negro.
When I was a kid, a black person was a negro, nothing odd about it.
Today, negro is derogatory.

Also got another example but it translates poorly:
In my country, the original name for a spanish person was "Spanioler", which means a person from Spain.
It has now been replaced, and the former considered derogatory (usually not by regular people or spaniards, as nobody really cares but the bureaucrats I think), with the word "Spanier", which ALSO means a person from spain, but is basically the grammatically incorrect way of saying it, a bit like saying "one americans" or "an englander".

 

[Ickorus]

Referring to a black person as black. =/

Used to be perfectly fine but now peoples hackles go up when I say 'black' rather than 'coloured'.

Friggen ridiculous.

 

[Aurgelmir]

I live in Australia where pretty much everyone (all races) are racist or at least jokingly racist to some degree.

Also, inb4 Avenue Q "Everyone's a little bit racist"

Thats such a brilliant show! *Wants to go see it again*

 

[Swaki]

yeah, theres "The Story of Little Black Sambo" which i never found to be racists as kid, my problem with it was that the tigers turned to butter because they ran to fast, that was messed up, but looking at it now i realize its portrayal of Sambo is pretty racist, in Denmark we also have "Flødeboller" (cream buns, not the best name in the world but better than which where called "negerboller" (negro/niggerbuns depending on who you ask) when i was a kid, a pretty bad name as it is, but even worse in Danish as "boller" can be both buns and a rather rude slang for intercourse.

there where some other unfortunate names throughout my childhood, but most of the got changed pretty fast, the reason the other two survived for that long is that Denmark has never had a large population of "african-danes"...there are so few black people living here that we dont have a political correct term.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

We never knew when we were young. One adult expected us to use the word "Coloured" which got us hit from another adult that said "Black" that got us beat from the black kids who wanted "Negro" who got us beat by...

You get the point

 

[Bocaj2000]

as a young child I saw my first black person. I reached up at him from my stroller and said, "basketball man." My mom was mortified but the guy the thought it was kinda funny.

 

[bojac6]

Referring to a black person as black. =/

Used to be perfectly fine but now peoples hackles go up when I say 'black' rather than 'coloured'.

Friggen ridiculous.

Where are you from? Because here in the Midwest of the USA, colored is considered derogatory and black is the preferred term.

 

[EllEzDee]

For example when I was young and my mum was out later than expected my dad would say maybe she has been taken away by a large black man.

I don't really understand how that could have been seen as ok. Especially since you're, according to your profile, a student. So in 18ish years, that has changed from being a-ok to being racist? Imo, it would have been racist at the time aswell as by todays standards.

As for my own example, it's already been said. The marmalade/jam jars of whatever brand they were (google says it's Robertson's) used to offer a Golliwog in exchange for like, 12 stickers from their jars. The Golliwog was like their mascot. Nowadays the offer has been revoked, and the company has a new mascot. Besides that, they only offer a crappy little spoon as part of the offer.

 

[Nahhnbah]

I thought I had invented new word "Neegar". I got a smack in the mouth.

 

[manythings]

I suppose you could still say Tiger and it could be technically racist.

How?

In Sweden we have these delicious things called negro-balls. They look like this:

Obviously, there has been debates about the name...

Tiger Woods. You know, the black golfer.

 

[Ickorus]

Referring to a black person as black. =/

Used to be perfectly fine but now peoples hackles go up when I say 'black' rather than 'coloured'.

Friggen ridiculous.

Where are you from? Because here in the Midwest of the USA, colored is considered derogatory and black is the preferred term.

England, and yeah, i've noticed people going off the term coloured here too now.

 

[niege]

I suppose you could still say Tiger and it could be technically racist.

How?

In Sweden we have these delicious things called negro-balls. They look like this:

Obviously, there has been debates about the name...

And end the school year at church and singing our national anthem is also "racism".