Political Correctness Gone Mad?

[bozo]

WHEREAS, " white " is always " good ".

Not amongst the other coloured peoples in the world,who are the majority.

In some Asian cultures for example white is the colour of mourning,and some Indian gods are portrayed as black,although not evil. EG I have a small statue of Ganesh,god of wisdom on my desk. He's in black with a little gold trim.

Oh, I had a golliwog as a young child. He was called "Golli". Being a bright child, I was aware he was a stuffed toy,not a real person, just as teddy wasn't a real bear,even though I pretended he was. At age 3 I wasn't all that interested in symbolism and metaphor,or wouldn't have been had I known what they were.

I don't have kids.If I did, I like to think my attitude would be the same as Adrian's

I was quoting that the word " black " in our uk culture is used in a pejorative way. I maintain that is so. I produced a small list of examples ( not exhaustive ). I challenge you to come up with a similar list using " white " in a pejorative sense ( for our uk culture ).
As regards other cultures, using white for mourning is nowhere near like using black in a pejorative and racist way, as I have shown.


Golliwog, defined in my Chambers as :-
" a fantastical rag doll with black face, staring eyes, and bristling hair; a person who has fuzzy hair or is in some way grotesque. "

Thus it became a thing associated with unfavourable, racial stereotyping. Old British generals would refer to black people as " fuzzy-wuzzies " ( I heard an old guy use just such an expression in the 1990's ). And of course, the word eventually contracted to simply " wog " which I remember was a very popular way to refer to black people here in the uk when I was growing up in the 1950's and 60's.
The actual doll was representative of " the good nigger "....the slave who would dress-up in colourful and quite ridiculous clothes so as to find favour with the master and his contemporaries.
I had one when I was a kid and was oblivious to what it actually represented. I wish that my parents had appreciated that, but they obviously didn't. Like most people of their generation they had become accustomed to seeing black people as inferior...I remember my mother using " nigger " quite frequently.
Things changed when the liberating times of the late 1960's and 1970's and political correctness was hugely responsible for changing younger peoples' attitudes to race. Words like " nigger ", " wog " and " coon " slowly vanished from day-to-day speech as people grasped the concept of racial equality.
Things are infinitely better now than when I was young.....golliwogs have disappeared from jars of jam, they are no longer easily obtainable in retail establishments ( there may be a " black-market" sic where you can buy one if you're so inclined, I know not ) and " The Black and White Minstrel Show " no longer plays to millions on our televisions.

Institutional racism still persists, however, and sadly a large portion of the country is in denial about its racist opinions.