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Licensed Walking Dead T-Shirts Pulled From Shelves For Racism

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Popular UK discount clothing store, Primark, has pulled Walking Dead T-shirts from its stores, nationwide, after complaints that they are racist.

Referencing a scene in the comic and TV show, where Negan executed one of the regular characters with his wire-wrapped baseball bat, he uses the phrase "eeny meeny miny moe" continuing "catch a tiger by its toe" which is the version I learned forty years ago.

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However its Victorian version used "n-gger", before "tiger" replaced it to be more… well, what's known nowadays as "politically correct". And for some people, that's still the version they know. And what the T-shirt phrase refers to.

You know, I never thought any Negan-related controversy would revolve around something the character didn't say.

 

 

 

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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