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The odd thing about this debate, and it rumbles on.. even featured on Question Time last night, is that both sets of the arguments are right - to an extent.
For us older geezers the term golliwog wasnt or perhaps isnt offensive because we grew up with the term. Every family had a golliwog toy so it was commonplace. The early TV adverts rang out with the jingle
"look for the golly, the golly on the jar!"
it was standard fare.
Peak viewing on the BBC on saturday night was The Black and White Minstrel Show...where white guys dressed up as Golliwogs, this was peak viewing, and sang out
"Mammy how I love ye..my dear old mammy etc etc"
So its in our culture to think its okay.
But the tectonic plates of society changed...leaving us old geezers up the river without a paddle. New immigration, new races, joined society and society changed. Things that we all took for granted offended the new people so a new social order was called for. The young embraced the new social condition easily enough, but us older ones didnt and still dont, and we dont know what all the fuss is about.
But we cant be dinosaurs. if the new social order calls for these old words like golliwog, n*gger, etc to be eased out then so be it. Its no longer acceptable. Accept the change and go with the flow. Whatever happened to football commentator Ron Atkinson!!?..vanished forever. So these new changes in whats acceptable have a very powerful lobby. Breach the new conditions and your out...fast.