Golden shred memorabilia

[4265694]

Why on earth do eBay ban what is consider to be a bye gone advertising piece. The world seems to have gone mad, and eBay are creating a problem out of an innocent piece and are penalising us for supposedly making one. 

[jckl1957]

Surely you can't believe that the little figures and badges are not offensive?

Even the name is offensive and, without wanting to appear everso 'woke', they perpetuate racial stereotypes in a way that is just not acceptable in the 21st century.

How are you being penalised?
If you like those items, then keep them and enjoy them.

[john1297576]

More information would help?

”making one” Are you sure you sure you are not  running up against VERO and Brand owner can ask ebay to remove.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/listing-policies/selling-policies/intellectual-property-vero-pr...

[jckl1957]

I would guess the OP is referring to the badges and figurines you could get by collecting labels from Robertsons marmalade in the 1960s, which Ebay ban from being sold on the site.

[red_magpie]

Why on earth do eBay ban what is consider to be a bye gone advertising piece.

You may not consider it to be offensive, but eBay does - and so do many people, because of the attitudes the bedge represents.

It's eBay's site, so their opinion trumps yours.

[4265694]

Yes, but it’s the attitude of people today which creates this problem. At the age of 83 I look on items like this with nostalgia and see no racial connotations in them at all.

If narrow minded people of all races see these innocent items as racial then more pity to them. For heaven’s sake, can’t we all live in peace and move on.
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[*vyolla*]

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@4265694 wrote:
Yes, but it’s the attitude of people today which creates this problem. At the age of 83 I look on items like this with nostalgia and see no racial connotations in them at all.

If narrow minded people of all races see these innocent items as racial then more pity to them. For heaven’s sake, can’t we all live in peace and move on.
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Of course those badges are racist, they're caricatures of black people. I'm certainly not narrow minded, but these are extremely offensive and we have moved on in that decades ago you could send off for one of these if you consumed enough jam/marmalade, but times and values have changed.

Now that we see that they are offensive, they're not allowed to be sold. 

[4265694]

Sad to say but your last line sums up today’s generations woeful attitude.
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[*vyolla*]

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@4265694 wrote:
Sad to say but your last line sums up today’s generations woeful attitude.
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It's woeful to recognise an item that's offensive to black people as being offensive to black people?

[red_magpie]

At the age of 83 I look on items like this with nostalgia and see no racial connotations in them at all.

At the age of 83 I look back on the Robertson's Golly and wonder how it took so long to be recognised as a racial caricature.

[4265694]

But why oh why is it offensive, it’s not black verses white, it’s what narrow minded people see as offensive
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[kh-david.f]

I'm going to lock this conversation. It's verging on personal and is not productive