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Originally Posted by Tribesman
Wrong.
If you wrote that Bush was a dumb ass cracker you would be making a silly racist comment.
There are just on balance a lot more silly racist comments you can make about Obama.
But there you go again GR, playing the "white" victim race card.
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I made the original observation.
Why is a monkey racist for one and not another? The Bush versions usually show (fairly effectively, actually) a similarity in physical appearance between W and some other primate. Since he and Obama are both
Homo sapiens, what's the diff? It's not like either of them bear more than a superficial resemblance in certain images picked to highlight this—as would most any other people so singled out (morbidly obese people don't typically look like other primates since wild animals don't get morbidly obese, they die first).
The type of historical attribution of "monkey" is probably what you are talking about, but I always found that funny since that sort of redneck doesn't actually think we (human beings) share a common ancestor with other, extant primates.
There was an Obama delegate that had to back out as I recall because some kids were playing in a tree outside her Chicago home and she called them monkeys—I call
my 3 YO a monkey all the time. Ah, here it is:
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Ramirez-Sliwinski "came outside and told the children to quit playing in the tree like monkeys. The tree was not on Ramirez-Sliwinski's property,"
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. She had to quit her delegate position over this.
WTF.
That said, at what point are we past that, or are certain jokes and comments allowed forever for one "race" and not another? Won't that perpetuate racism instead of end it?