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'Wheel of Fortune' Facing Backlash Over Racist Puzzle Days After Pat Sajak Slammed For Controversial Photo
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| September 26, 2022
| Bre Williams
Posted on 09/26/2022 9:57:19 PM PDT by grundle
Wheel of Fortune and host Pat Sajak have been catching a lot of heat these last few days.
During a recent episode of ABC’s hit game show, a puzzle with a racist history in the United States was presented as one for contestants to solve. The category was “Rhyme Time,” and the answer was later revealed as “EENIE MEENIE MINY MOE CATCH A TIGER BY THE TOE,” which didn’t sit well with viewers.
According to Vox, the original version of this rhyme is “rooted in the slave trade,” and was not used by children but by slave-owners. “Tiger” in the rhyme was originally an “N-slur.”
Knowing this, per The Sun, many took to Twitter to slam Wheel of Fortune for using a puzzle with a racist past.
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KEYWORDS: itsnottiger; sajak; wheeloffortune; woke
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The people who are offended by everything are complaining about something that pretty much everyone I've ever known said when they were a child.
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posted on
09/26/2022 9:57:19 PM PDT
by
grundle
To: grundle
Oh those nasty racist children.
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posted on
09/26/2022 9:59:25 PM PDT
by
Veto!
(FJBsucksrocks)
To: grundle
Yep grew up in the North, grandparents played that with us all the time, no hint whatsoever of racism.
Lots of things have interesting or awful histories but are no longer awful.
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:01:56 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
To: grundle
Eeny meeny miney mo, I think that street chick is a ‘ho.
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:03:27 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Williams
Eeny meeny miney mo, square dancin’ starts with dosey-do.
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:04:23 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Veto!
Eeny meeny miney mo, senile president is named Joe.
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:05:01 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: grundle
Eeny meeny miney mo, this ain’t a haiku, no no no.
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:06:05 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Williams
Eeny meeny miney mo, whatever happens, don’t Tase me bro!
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:06:56 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Lazamataz
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo, that Hunter Biden sure loves blow.
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:12:57 PM PDT
by
Tacrolimus1mg
(Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
To: Veto!
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:18:00 PM PDT
by
MNDude
(Once you remove "they would never" from your vocabulary, it all begins to make sense)
To: Tacrolimus1mg
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo, The FBI’s where criminals go.
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:18:01 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Veto!
In other words two idiot college students with nothing better to do complained.
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:23:58 PM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
To: MNDude
“That’d have to be in the butt, Bob.”
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:26:07 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: grundle
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:29:35 PM PDT
by
fidelis
(👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
To: grundle
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:37:41 PM PDT
by
HYPOCRACY
(This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
To: HYPOCRACY
Then they changed this title to another racist title "Ten Little Indians" and made a song and they all lived happily ever after.
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:41:13 PM PDT
by
HYPOCRACY
(This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
To: grundle
Oh, good grief.
Every little kid I knew used this rhyme frequently and we always said “tiger.”
These stupid whiny leftists need to be sent to live on their own island and leave the sane people to keep things going.
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:41:37 PM PDT
by
Allegra
To: grundle
They are complaining that people took the racism OUT of something?
I grew up in the 60s in the deep south. We said “feller”. We didn’t specify his racial background. We were inclusive and diverse before it was cool. Although I guess we were still sexists.
“Tiger” doesn’t make sense. “If he hollers let him go.” Tigers don’t holler.
Yall’s haikus are cracking me up.
Love,
O2
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:45:02 PM PDT
by
omegatoo
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To: fidelis
I asked for crackers instead of pretzels for my snack, and the Stewardess said “We do not serve crackers.”
/s
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posted on
09/26/2022 10:47:08 PM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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