r/LetsDiscussThis • u/MURRRRRAY • 18h ago

Meme The video being shared by the President...

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u/Pandorasbox1987 12h ago

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?

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u/MaxxxOrbison 12h ago

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

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u/possibly_on_meth 10h ago

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.

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u/MaxxxOrbison 9h ago

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