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Originally Posted by Bouncing Bettys
You completely disregarded my previous response to you, which I beleive sufficiently countered your arguments, only to continue with them.
Of course comparing a black person to an ape can be racist under certain circumstances, and I'm sure welfare and everyone else in here would agree. What is at issue, is determining the true intentions, the context, of what Roseanne was saying with her tweet. There is no way of knowing for certain as that is the nature of text-based social interaction. There are a number of questions I have for someone who holds your opinion, which I beleive might help show why context matters:
If you had to describe a black woman to a someone who had never seen such a person before, would Valerie Jarrett fit your description? If your honest answer is no, then are others off base for believing she has such ambiguous features she could be mistaken for a number of different races/ethnicities, including white? Is it possible Roseanne was not aware of her background? Even if she was, is it possible she made a mistake in thinking it was ok to make the comparison, given that other public figures had been compared to primates without controversy? This would go back to that teachable moment, like white kids painting their faces to look black for Halloween and not understanding the connection to racist black face.
As to your assertion that Roseanne called her an ape, despite giving a movie title. Say you had to describe apes/monkies/chimps/orangutans so someone who had never seen such creatures. To help him best to understand, would you put on Planet of the Apes and its sequels and remakes, or put on nature documentaries featuring those creatures? If you're honest answer is the latter, than do you see there is a difference? You can't just say Planet of the Apes = ape = racist, without more evidence to show her making that connection?
She did immediately appologise once her mistake was pointed out. Time will tell if she truly meant it.
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"despite the movie title"
The movie title is Planet of the APES
FUCKING APES
I just can't fathom the depths of depravity you two are taking your brains into, in order to try to defend this. It actually hurts me as a human being. At first I couldn't believe there was some sort of alt-right movement with the tiki torches and all that shit, now I'm not surprised at all. People are literally losing their minds, on "both sides". The normal person left in the middle is just being driven to madness. The end result is a total shit storm
