03-12-2009, 11:53 AM
Ordinary Peephole Wrote:Calling a black person a monkey is a racial slur. Period.
Saying the colour of her skin is in fact incidental is:-
1 - A lie.
2 - A pathetic attempt in avoiding being labelled a racist.
3 - A dangerous precedent to set, "the fact I am calling Hondo slant eyes isn't racist because he does have slanted eyes, that's a fact not racism".
That dog doesn't hunt.
Yes, her dark skin coloring factored into the ape comparison. SO? Apes are dark like that. It made her look even more like an ape. You mean it's OK to express a view that someone looks like an ape but if their coloring helps the cause too much, one should be automatically criticized for racism?
Sorry, it's not racism to say she looked like an ape, facial features, coloring, and all. She could have been born on the moon for all I care, she'd still look primate to me. What's next? Are you going to accuse me of being a racist because my Uncle looked like a polar bear to many of us, and we said so?
