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[Nearly Sane]

Why was Barr's tweet racist but all the many posts over the last couple of years referring to Donald Trump as an orange baboon or similar not?

Because the racial slurs of blacks are like apes is a common take,unlike any baboon  comparisons.

[jeremyp]

I don't know as I never made the claim they weren't. Just because only one has been picked up on thus far doesn't mean it shouldn't be called out. I had not heard the comments about Trump in this regard. Although obviously orange baboons everywhere have every right to feel affronted and are owed an apology.

Rosanne Barr tweeted something like about an Obama era aide to the effect that she was a cross between planet of the apes and Islamic State.

It was certainly quite insulting to the individual but where is the racism?

[jeremyp]

Because the racial slurs of blacks are like apes is a common take,unlike any baboon  comparisons.

Rosanne Barr didn't say blacks are like apes.

Pedantry forces me to point out that we are all like apes mainly because we are all apes. That is irrelevant to the discussion but I can't help it.

[Nearly Sane]

Rosanne Barr didn't say blacks are like apes.

Pedantry forces me to point out that we are all like apes mainly because we are all apes. That is irrelevant to the discussion but I can't help it.

But contextually referring to a black person as an ape  then references the known slur.


And thank you for your pedantry because I wanted to mention that as well.

[jeremyp]

But contextually referring to a black person as an ape  then references the known slur.

So you think it is racist to call a black person an ape but not racist to call a person of a different colour an ape. That seems somewhat racist of you. For future reference can you tell me the pantone colour at which calling somebody an ape stops being merely insulting and starts being racist, please.

[Nearly Sane]

So you think it is racist to call a black person an ape but not racist to call a person of a different colour an ape. That seems somewhat racist of you. For future reference can you tell me the pantone colour at which calling somebody an ape stops being merely insulting and starts being racist, please.

No, it's simply a recognition of the use of dog whistle terms. The same would apply if someone described someone  Jewish as hook nosed, and someone non Jewish as having a big nose.