How is this an offensive Christmas mug?

[richard1rst]

So I’m trying to list a Christmas coffee mug. Laden with Christmas symbols and bearing the inscription “Good Golly Be Jolly”

And I get a red flag warning me that under offensive restrictions golliwog dolls are not allowed. Do not list.

HUH ????

How does “good golly be jolly” translate into a golliwog doll.

And what in the blinkety blank blue blazes IS a golliwog doll that it is so offensive.

Anyone?

[luckythewinner]

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@richard1rst wrote:

And what in the blinkety blank blue blazes IS a golliwog doll that it is so offensive. 

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In the time it took you to tyle this sentence, you could have performed a Google search and learned all you needed to know. 

[nc-daydreamer]

Sounds like some athiest reported it perhaps. Sad. I'd call and ask a human to review the bot's decision.

[slippinjimmy]

Google is your friend..........

List your mug, it's just a warning and you are not trying to list the item involved.

[slippinjimmy]

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@nc-daydreamer wrote:

Sounds like some athiest reported it perhaps. Sad. I'd call and ask a human to review the bot's decision.

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Nobody reported it, it has nothing to do with religion and the bot made no decision!

[gramophone-georg]

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@richard1rst wrote:

So I’m trying to list a Christmas coffee mug. Laden with Christmas symbols and bearing the inscription “Good Golly Be Jolly”

And I get a red flag warning me that under offensive restrictions golliwog dolls are not allowed. Do not list.

HUH ????

How does “good golly be jolly” translate into a golliwog doll.

And what in the blinkety blank blue blazes IS a golliwog doll that it is so offensive.

Anyone?

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eBay.

First order of business in dealing with eBay is to realize that on eBay "AI" stands for Arrogant Incompetence and NOT Artificial Intelligence.

While others will berate you for not knowing what a golliwog doll is or for not using Google to find out, the fact remains that GOLLY has NOTHING TO DO with a golliwog doll.

It's just business as usual at eBay- never, ever, EVER test anything before rolling it out.

[gramophone-georg]

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@slippinjimmy wrote:

Google is your friend..........

List your mug, it's just a warning and you are not trying to list the item involved.

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Now I know where I know you from... you're eBay Customer Service, ain'tcha?

[richard1rst]

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@luckythewinner wrote:

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In the time it took you to tyle this sentence, you could have performed a Google search and learned all you needed to know. 

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Fair enough.

Right after I posted this it dawned on me to Google it.

But then I realized that Google tracks everything we search and do I really want my profile to show I am searching for offensive things. Or worse the spam I will get from offensive sites. No, I’m not paranoid - just very private.

So I used DuckDuckGo instead.

But at least now I know what it is. But I still don’t get the connection to the coffee mug.

[moondogblues]

Gollywogs were a popular turn of the last century kids book illustrations depicting black people. They are considered offensive these days.

[moondogblues]

I spelled golliwog wrong, oops.a

[rolenboy01]

What does a golly wog have to do with good golly be jolly? I guess the song good golly miss molly is a racist song nowadays even though it was written by a presumingly black man named little richard?

[tunicaslot]

Don't worry OP - I had to google it and found some golliwog items listed here on Ebay - I think they are adorable - too much PC in this world.

[annadryl]

It was the bots which often fail, like, epic. Your mug is fine, you can list it. That was just a pre-list bot pop-up. It's always the bots.

Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

[penguins_dont_fly]

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@rolenboy01 wrote:

What does a golly wog have to do with good golly be jolly? I guess the song good golly miss molly is a racist song nowadays even though it was written by a presumingly black man named little richard?

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Here's another apparently offensive song 

https://youtu.be/OPdEL-FaVzc

[llllady]

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@moondogblues wrote:
Gollywogs were a popular turn of the last century kids book illustrations depicting black people. They are considered offensive these days.

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@moondogblues

There's not much these days that isn't offensive to someone, somewhere.   We're living in a politically correct world gone wild.  😞