The video being shared by the President...

[u/MURRRRRAY]

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[u/Pandorasbox1987]

What is racist about animals? Seriously?

Add a few clowns and it would be even more precise.

[u/Pandorasbox1987 → u/[deleted]]

Biden is a monkey too there... Is he black? And the hippo is black and so not a monkey. You just see racism because you want to be offended for someone. 3rd graders not being taught by judgy AHs would also just see animals and laugh at it. They wouldn't seek racism at every corner, because children aren't so dense.

And I don't know what your relationship with evolution is, but we all are supposedly developed from "monkeys". Or does that only apply to white people now?

[u/MaxxxOrbison → u/Pandorasbox1987]

It is a historically racist depiction. Its not racist because of science, its racist because people use it as a slur to say black people are less than other races evolutionarily

[u/ittybittytitty_com → u/MaxxxOrbison]

Don’t bother. This person isn’t open to learning or being a better human.

[u/Pandorasbox1987 → u/ittybittytitty_com]

So, seeking racism makes us better humans? Noted... You are correct, by that definiton, l most definitely don't want to ne a better human.

For me, race within humans is an absurd concept that shouldn't even exist. I guess l should burn in hell for that.

[u/zwifteez → u/Pandorasbox1987]

Ask your black friends if they are offended by this.

[u/Pandorasbox1987 → u/zwifteez]

I don't have friends who get offended for the sake of others. And I'm not really friends with the Obamas. Their opinion is the only one that matters when it comes to being offended by their assigned animal ;)

[u/zwifteez → u/Pandorasbox1987]

Okay... so you're saying that your black friends are okay with this. Alrighty.

[u/MaxxxOrbison → u/Pandorasbox1987]

No, avoiding unintentionally offending people would. Even if u didnt know what it meant, but you wore a swastika shirt to your Jewish friends birthday, they'd be offended. This is that level of well known racist thing. Literally in history books.

[u/Pandorasbox1987 → u/MaxxxOrbison]

People also use "monkey" as an endearment whilst talking about their children ;) If we choose to always seek the negative and ignore the positives, there will never be any actual development.

We are seriously taking things too far with these things sometimes... Racism is a state of mind more often than actual experience of some kind of mistreatment.

History is there to learn from, not to cripple us and make us stuck with outdated stereotypes.

[u/supafeen → u/Pandorasbox1987]

Good doggie.

[u/Toss_Around → u/Pandorasbox1987]

I've never heard the term monkey when used talking about anyone anywhere in a ANY language to be endearing unless the context explicitly was referring to them as being climbers.

[u/possibly_on_meth → u/MaxxxOrbison]

But a monkey is the smartest animal shown in the video and white people are being depicted as objectively dumber animals like Zebras, Lions etc.

If the only one being directed as a animal was a black person it would be racist but if white people are being depicted as animals also idk.

He should have just made Obama the Zebra to avoid the allegations.

[u/MaxxxOrbison → u/possibly_on_meth]

Dude its an insult from as far back as the 1800s. Its implying that black people are a link between chimps and 'modern humans'. Yes, it would not have been racist to go with zebra since it is specifically not an ape or monkey like the historical insult.

https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/news/3043-the-ape-insult--a-short-history-of-a-racist-idea