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What do you think of the new Police Prison Island set (60419)? (www.lego.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/lego@lemmy.world

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[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

To be fair it ain't the most problematic children's game ahaha

Anyone remember "Who is afraid of the black person"? It was a game often played by kids at least in my country and my god I never realised the racist implications until way later!

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That game should warrant some interesting research. What split between generations/areas/other factors implied it being about skin color and which were running away from this

Phantom blot

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

FYI, for some reason the picture wasn't displayed, this one should work

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Thanks! I'm still struggling with lemmy markup and it seems I used an url to a wikia-resized variant

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fuckin no? Yeez what country is that?

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Germany ahaha. We kind of translated it differently. I think it might have a less offensive name in English!