WhatsUpDOHC

9/30/22

The Museum of Meh. Other exhibits include DiGiorno pizza and the Carter Administration.

9/27/22

Are we just LOOKING for stuff to be outraged about now?

9/27/22

people forget origins and move on, the info is never passed down to other gens. soon something that started nefarious is just accepted as innocuous

9/27/22

Are you kidding me? I’ve never heard ANYTHING but “catch a tiger by the toe.” It took this site to make it racist.

9/27/22

This is exactly like that time (also pointed out in the Today.com article) that people freaked out over the ice scream truck song because one asshole made a racist variation of it.

9/27/22

Also file under “ableist terms that people making an honest effort use without being aware of bad origins” (dumb, moron, lame, etc.)

9/27/22

Anyone that wants to be offended will of course find something to be offended about.

9/27/22

Plus tigers are endangered, so the rhyme encourages irresponsible behavior.

9/27/22

There are apparently even older versions of this “counting rhyme” from all over the world, but this is one of those cases of racists appropriating something so thoroughly that even if it’s not technically “the original”, it might as well be by now.

9/27/22

Why is everyone so historically dumb? It takes 2 seconds to disprove this:

9/27/22

JFC... what horseshit. it may have started the way it did, but there’s nothing racist about “Catch a Tiger by the toe”. Ridiculous.

9/27/22

Your headline is rather misleading. The rhyme isn’t racist - the word swaps racist have done to it (and many other sayings) are what is, well - racist. The original is just a silly rhyme. Sadly racist can probably word swap about anything for their agenda.

9/27/22

This isn’t what the black community is chasing. This is what The Root’s owners want it to be chasing.

9/27/22

I grew up in the racist ass south with no shortage of people exercising an alarming lack of restraint in their speech and I never heard this rhyme with anything other than “tiger”.

Dollars to donuts the writers didn’t know.

This is the Chik-fil-A nonsense all over again.

9/27/22

Everything is racist now days.

9/27/22

Really? This is what the Black community is chasing now? Jumping at every shadow and slight?

9/27/22

never ever in my life heard that had racist origins. and doubtful the whitebread ass people running this show knew either.

9/27/22

can someone explain how this is a “threat to democracy”

9/27/22

Slow news day?

9/14/22

Every automaker around: We’re going full electric

Ford: Nah. We’re gonna let our drivers waste gas from 50 ft away