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Well, yes - if you're going by their (some would argue definitive) depiction in the 1971 film adaptation. But the Loompas were initially supposed to be black pygmies hailing from "the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before."
What is Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
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This phrase intends to reference hecklers or critics, usually ill-informed ones. In reality, it names a section in theaters, usually the cheapest and worst, where many black people sat during the era of Vaudeville.
What is "Peanut gallery"
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A Farmers Market
“Farmers’ markets are often white spaces where the food consumption habits of white people are normalized,” said San Diego State University professors Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J Bosco.
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White Nuclear Family
“I mean, if you’re a white person who says they’re engaged in dismantling white supremacy but…you’re forming a white family [and] reproducing white children that ‘you want the best for’ – how is that helping [and] not part of the problem?”
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Being on Time
It is impolite and racially insensitive to “politely ask the second group to apologize,” because “his cultural perspective regarding time is neither more nor less valid than any other.”
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In 2011, feminist theolgian Dr Eske Wollrad levelled claims that all three of the Pippi Longstocking novels "have colonial racist stereotypes" in them, especially in Pippi In The South Seas. When she meets several black characters on an island in the titular seas, they "throw themselves into the sand in front of the white children".
What is Pippi Longstocking
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The song Jingle Bells
“Although ‘One Horse Open Sleigh,’ for most of its singers and listeners, may have eluded its radicalized past and taken its place in the seemingly unproblematic romanticization of a normal ‘white’ Christmas, attention to the circumstances of its performance history enables reflection on its problematic role in the construction of blackness and whiteness in the United States,”
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It’s not enough that the white man stole their land and deliberately gave them blankets infected with smallpox, now they’ve misappropriated the Native American heritage to sell dairy products. The Land O’Lakes Indian has been offending Native Americans since 1921.
What is Land O’Lakes
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This lovely product sports another blackface logo. Interestingly, this product was sold in China until 1985. I’m not really sure who their target market was (racists?), but when Colgate bought the toothpaste company in 1984, they changed the name (cleverly, to Darlie), and reworked the logo so the man looks both white and black at the same time. Though the American name has been changed, the Cantonese version of the toothpaste – Haak Yahn Nga Gou – still literally translates to “Black Man Toothpaste.”
What is Darkie Toothpaste
200
Math
According to Professor Rochelle Gutierrez of the University of Illinois, “mathematics itself operates as Whiteness,”
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Unfortunately, this being the middle of the twentieth century and interracial unions not being quite as acceptable as they are now, the practicalities of this are shaky to say the least. So what does Dolittle do? What any good physician would - he bleaches the prince's skin white so that he can marry the girl without any of that nasty social stigma, producing "a smell like burning paper".
What is Doctor Dolittle
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This modern, inoffensive version comes from a similar, older one, where n***er replaces tiger. Rudyard Kipling mentions it as a "counting-out song" (basically a way for kids to eliminate candidates for being "It" in hide-and-seek). .... / Catch a tiger by the toe / If he hollers let him go /.....
What is "Eenie meenie miney moe"
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She’s been the face of pancake mix and syrup products since 1889. And though Quaker Oats has cleaned up her image to be less offensive over the years, there’s no doubt that Aunt Jemima was borne from a racial stereotype. Ads that gave her “colorful slang” only serve to increase the offensiveness. Despite all this, Aunt Jemima remains on shelves today – making her one of the longest running racist foods of all time.
What is Aunt Jemima
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Writer Ron Rosenbaum said in Slate that racism accounts for the popularity of white-meat turkey over more flavorful dark meat. “White meat turkey has no taste,” he explained. “Despite its superior taste, dark meat has dark undertones for some.
What is Liking white meat is racist.
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Hiking, Biking or doing anything outdoors
According to Malcom McMann, white people – specifically white males – have dominion over the outdoors, and feel more comfortable in that space than minorities do.
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In a slightly dodgier area are the books featuring the Calormenes, a dark-skinned race of people with long beards, pointy shoes and turbans who live in the southern lands of Narnia and worship a demon-god named Tash. Oh, and most of them are cruel, terrible people.
What is The Chronicles Of Narnia
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Though steeped in controversy, this first part of this phrase might relate to the Hep Hep Riots — anti-Semitic demonstrations that started in Germany in the 19th century. Germans reportedly cheered "hep hep" as they forced Jews from their homes across Europe.
What is "Hip hip hooray!"
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You may disagree with this one, but “Eskimo” is considered a derogatory term among natives of Canada and Greenland. The preferred term is “Inuit.” As such, it’s just as offensive as calling a little person a midget.
What is Eskimo Pie
400
Elliot Bronstein of the Seattle Office for Civil Rights sent a memo to the public-affairs office banning the term “brown bag” as in brown-bag lunches.
What is Lunch bags look racist
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The 2017 Solar Eclipse
“It has been dubbed the Great American Eclipse, and along most of its path, there live almost no black people,”
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Aside from the sexism present in Barrie's original stage production, the author's treatment of Tiger Lily and the Native American characters in the story is thoroughly cringeworthy. Portraying a tribe as ignorant savages who hunt children and adults alike, Barrie writes that €œthey carry tomahawks and knives, and their naked bodies gleam with paint and oil.
What is Peter Pan
500
This phrase started appearing in London newspapers around 1898. The Oxford Online Dictionary speculates it evolved from the fictional surname "Houlihan," included in a popular pub song about a rowdy Irish family.
What is "Hooligan"
500
Milk
“The federal endorsement of milk in American diets contributes to the problem by uncritically pushing people to drink milk, despite the potential detriment it has on non-white people’s health,”
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The Harvard “Voices of Diversity” project interviewed 200 students at four U.S. colleges and found that racist and sexist “micro-aggressions” — subtle but hurtful digs — are a serious problem. Examples: finding that most of the people in your class are white males, other students rolling their eyes when you speak, and “a slight raising of the eyebrows or eyes following you in the dining hall.”
What is If too many white males are in your class, that’s racist.
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Trees along a golf course planted sixty years ago
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