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[GodCherry]

I'm not the one posting pictures of black people and monkeys.

Again, since its so innocent, I dare you to show that in public.

So white people compared to monkeys is ok with you?

Again, there's a long history of the comparison of black people and monkeys that doesn't apply systematically to white people.

There's also a number of corresponding racial slurs.  

The history and slurs don't apply to white people.

Again, if you think what you're doing is innocent, I honestly dare you to not be a punk and walk up to any black guy and flash that series of pictures.

[KUSA]

I honestly dare you to not be a punk and walk up to any black guy and flash that series of pictures.

Are you implying that the individual will display criminal behavior?

[GodCherry]

I honestly dare you to not be a punk and walk up to any black guy and flash that series of pictures.

Are you implying that the individual will display criminal behavior?

If your actions are as innocent as you've suggested, you won't provoke anything.  You're the one who suggested that there's nothing racially offensive about what you posted.

Its so easy to be a bigot on the internet for some punks though.

[KUSA]

Are you implying that the individual will display criminal behavior?

If your actions are as innocent as you've suggested, you won't provoke anything.  You're the one who suggested that there's nothing racially offensive about what you posted.

Its so easy to be a bigot on the internet for some punks though.

If he came up to me showing a comparison of a white man to a monkey I would gladly return the comparison.

[Joods]

JFC. It's like nothing I've said actually sunk in.

[Aegon]

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

[Minimalist]

I'm not the one posting pictures of black people and monkeys.

Again, since its so innocent, I dare you to show that in public.

So white people compared to monkeys is ok with you?

Only ones named Bush.

[Athene]

True enough, calling someone a "monkey" is generally a mild insult that could be aimed at a person of any race displaying silly behavior.

The term "monkey" is also an ethnic slur that aims to demean blacks and and other dark-skinned individuals as being "others" and not quite human.

It's unlikely, but not impossible that a person could be unaware of that there are in fact, two definitions of the term when it's used as an insult. 

It's also possible that people slickly use the term "monkey" as a racial slur, and then feign ignorance of any knowledge that its use as such a term has ever existed. 

I would imagine that if I unwittingly used a racial or ethnic slur, my reaction would be "Oh, shit. Sorry. I didn't know." and that would be that.

That's just me, though.

[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.

[Joods]

So white people compared to monkeys is ok with you?

The history and slurs don't apply to white people.

So I guess the Jewish people who suffered in concentration camps don't matter?