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miro_o
Not sure what you mean.
A golliwog’s a caricature of a person of a different race depicting physical characteristics that were used to mock said race by an invading empire whom they had no previous contact with, who treated them as sub-human and repeatedly massacred them over generations.
I can see how some people might think it’s inoffensive because it’s a toy, but I don’t think it being a plaything makes it inoffensive. Rather, the fact that it’s fine for it to be offensive because it’s a plaything shows unconscious racism, and I wondered if a caricaturish toy depicting a stereotypical white person would be received the same way.
As there hasn’t been a majority non-white imperial power subjugating and mistreating white people in the last few hundred years, the doll would lack the additional insult of generational mistreatment of a race.
Hope that‘s clearer.