tiger, toe

[darkoshi]

If it doesn't holler, you probably haven't really caught it.

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[redsixwing]

Either way, the tiger goes.

[darkoshi]

Yep. it occurs to me now that this counting rhyme may have a racist past.. yep, Racism strikes again

Had to look it up once you said so

[marahmarie]

It has a racist "version", not "past", if I'm reading this correctly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe

Re: Had to look it up once you said so

[darkoshi]

Well, at least there's that. But this being America where the bad version was popular, I feel uncomfortable even using the tiger rhyme now. I need to remember this better though; so that it doesn't only occur to me half an hour afterwards like it did yesterday. It occurred to me while driving to work, and then I had to look it up on my phone in the parking lot.

Re: Had to look it up once you said so

[marahmarie]

I've never, as far as I can recall, heard the racist version; that said, I was probably aware of it via online reading at some point but didn't recall until you mentioned it.