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Originally Posted by Senusret I
I think it would be gravely unwise to compare any black person to a monkey regardless of whether it's Barack Obama. It is still used as an insult among racists and still has some resonance among black people who choose to educate themselves (or are educated) about the history of racism in America.
I don't, however, believe that was the intent of the satire. So I agree with you, just for different reasons.
(I also thought Hitler/Bush references were generally uncalled for but that Bush/chimp references were funny)
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Oh, I agree that it's unwise to compare any black people with monkeys no matter what your intent because the assumption will be that you're making the racist association, but I don't think that's what was going on in the joke in the NYpost. I don't think the monkey/chimp/primate in the cartoon is supposed to be Obama in any way.
DaemonSeid seems to want to assume that any monkey reference (or actually chimp too) is about Obama even when it really probably isn't. And that's why I'm basically asking him if he thinks that we just forgo any humor with monkey/chimps whatever as long Obama is president, even if the jokes aren't about Obama.
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