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[Joods]

I don't agree with anyone posting things comparing people to monkeys - no matter what their color. The fact that no one is making such a big deal about the comparison to ALL races is what I find disturbing. All I'm seeing is posts indicating that people of color are offended but that white people shouldn't be. I'm white and I find the whole thing offensive. Period.

How much longer do we have to apologize for the things that our grandparents and great grandparents did to other members of this society? I didn't do those things and in this day and age, ANYTHING that is aimed at ANYONE, regardless of race, with the intent to hurt that person, is uncalled for.

You make it sound like racism through ape comparison is dead

You fail to see my point. My point was there should be no reason why any person, regardless of color, should be insulted in the prior example.

Shit, we aren't a bunch of third graders. We are adults. Perhaps if we set the example of being tolerant, our kids wouldn't grow up to be judge mental assholes. My parents weren't racist. But my grandmother was and I watched her ibe day refuse to order lunch while we were out simply because our server was black. I told my grandmother she was a racist and that she disgusted me. She got all butt hurt when I said that and I said, well imagine how our server felt when you made your remarks to her. That shut her up. This isn't the old days where there was little to no acceptance. This is 2016. We need to stop feeding into the idea of being entitled to things simply because of who we are or where we come from. We are all of one race: human.