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And it will go in history studies the same was as the civil rights pictures. We are seeing history happening and tend to forget it because so much of it is SO dumb.

He looks like a badass

I hadn't heard of her before, but she certainly is a wretched little cretin.

I guess he's no longer "one of the good ones."

Dems are held to decorum, the right isn’t.

Or the asshat who yelled "you lie" at Obama.

Republicans are more scandalized that someone called the president out for doing something incredibly racist than they are that the president did something incredibly racist.

Also, they have no room to talk about decorum...

To the conservatives, having someone accuse you of racism is more offensive than actual racism.

This feels like a "read the room" kind of comment.

All humans are biologically considered animals, and there are many times when I feel that viewing human behavior through that lens genuinely encourages compassion and understanding, and yet: there is a long history of people being called "animals" as a dehumanizing measure in order to justify doing the same horrible things to them that humans routinely do to non-human animals. This is particularly true for historically marginalized groups.

Likewise, there is a long, racist history of white people calling Black people "apes" or "monkeys" to justify racist systems and treat Black people the way they view monkeys and non-human apes, as resembling humans but not fully human.

This representative is specifically responding to a video shared by Trump, who has a long history of racist behavior, in which the Obamas were depicted as distinctly non-human apes (I cannot recall the specific ape and cannot readily look it up. Gorillas, I think?), echoing that racist trope.

When someone responds to Trump trafficking in racist tropes with "Black people aren't apes," they are not getting into the nitty gritty of taxonomical clades, they're countering that trope. "Well, actually"-ing about humans technically being apes is undercutting the focus on countering Trump's racism. Time and place.

Context.

So let's govern like they govern on the discovery channel

We’re all boney, ray-finned fish.

Yes. Unfortunately, racists deny that little technicality and think they're the superior other. So their usage of "apes" is offensive in this context.

Monki~

Came here to say this. I get what he's trying to say, but we are all definitely apes. And that's pretty cool - apes are awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae:

The Hominidae (/hɒˈmɪnɪdiː/; hominids /ˈhɒmɪnɪdz/), whose members are known as the great apes,[note 1] are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); Gorilla (the eastern and western gorilla); Pan (the chimpanzee and the bonobo); and Homo, of which only modern humans (Homo sapiens) remain.[1]

Every neurodivergent in Lemmy wants to chime in with correct biological facts despite it completely undermining the context of the message.

And bananas