Y'all know about these things, right? They were extremely racist dolls given to white children, particularly in Britain. The dolls were coal black with giant white eyes and thick red lips. I made a post about the problematic depiction of a black man, Mr. Popo, in Dragon Ball and how he looks exactly like a gollywog except he's wearing a turban. Which somehow makes it worse. Hence why I'm now making this thread.

Well, a while back TERF island had a struggle session over gollywogs because some people just can't admit that they were a mistake. "I let my children play with my gollywog dolls, I wasn't perpetuating racism" and all sorts of slop in that vein. This was in the late aughts, I wasn't on twitter back then so I have no idea if there were twitter fights but there were editorials in papers and discussion about it on message boards.

The point is: Some fucking wretch who used to have tea parties with her gollywogs is the same one posting on twitter about Trans people accessing the correct bathroom. I guaran-fucking-tee you. Remember that fact always when they try to bully our comrades over pronouns or whatever new thing they can't start doing because they can't incriminate their own past because it hurts their fucking feelings. They don't want to learn how to be right, they want to just be right, and you could pour an ocean into the chasm between those two things.

And for the record I grew up with Raggedy Anne and Raggedy Andy, but its cool because the Irish don't have souls so those dolls were extremely accurate.