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February 06, 2004

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I don't read The Volokh Conspiracy anymore since Cowen and Bernstein last simultaneously annoyed me. But Kevin at Calpundit still does.

Seems Bernstein got email from a woman that got fired over the incorrect use of "Eenie-meenie-miney-moe." Seems a number of folks took umbrage over the words being on the cover of a calendar.

For the 2003 Calendar, they chose a cover photo showing the feet of several children in a circle with their toes touching. The title of the photo was "Eeny Meeny Miny Moe."

Seems the writer forgot that the next line in the eyes of many is, "Catch a nigger by the toe."

She was fired, Bernstein is offended, Kevin (whose credentials as a human I'm not questioning) says:

Being the liberal sort that I am, I'm pretty sympathetic to the commonsensical notion that blacks and other minorities have suffered considerably from both de facto and de jure racism in the past and continue to suffer from de facto racism today. Furthermore, we as a society should be willing to do something concrete about this instead of just conveniently pretending that a faux colorblindness will make it all go away.

At the same time, we need to show a lot less tolerance for manufactured racial outrage from the kind of people who insist on being offended as often and as loudly as possible just on general principle. This kind of thing reduces racism to trivia and actively hurts our chances of making progress in the future toward a genuinely colorblind society. We shouldn't put up with it simply for fear of being attacked ourselves.

And the discussion thread is…typical.

Posted by P6 at February 6, 2004 10:53 PM
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Yeah, I thought the comments were pretty typical all the way around. There were some good ones but a lot of the same old same old. However, I was interested to read peoples' personal stories about what versions they learned or heard as children. I was relieved to find that I wasn't the only one who had only heard the "tiger" version before, and I had no idea that the "tinker" version was so popular in some quarters.

Posted by Al-Muhajabah at February 6, 2004 11:52 PM

I'm surprised. I always figured that the rhyme was just always about tigers, even if it didn't make sense. Another fond childhood memory shot down.

Posted by Raznor at February 7, 2004 03:55 AM

I heard "catch a monkey by the toe" as I was growing up.

Posted by P6 at February 7, 2004 07:52 AM

I think it is worth noting that this very issue was litigated in regards to Soutwest Airlines and a jury unanimously threw it out. In the purest sense, The People have spoken.

The line in question in the Southwest suit was, "Eeenie Meenie Miney Moe -- pick a seat, we've got to go."

Posted by Phelps at February 8, 2004 02:47 PM