So much gymnastics. I'm sorry sweetheart that you didn't mean it, but the whole world knows that monkey used as derogatory term to a black person has the inference of racist remark specifically. Keep up with the universe.
What about Ron Perlman? If I say he looks like a monkey would it be racist just because someone else used that word for racism before me?
So if someone uses a racially loaded term towards you, you're the racist for taking it on. They could have meant you were a really nice person but because you took it the wrong way, racist!
If you assert that a word has to mean something different when spoken about a white person vs a black person then yes you are a racist. You are advocating a policy of treating two people differently based on their race, that is racism.
Oh ok. Now convince everyone to drop racially loaded terms and then while you're at it create peace in the Middle East.
You can eat your pie in the sky, ill continue to adhere to reality where words still have meaning and using words in certain context are means of exclaiming hate towards others.
Racism is a belief. If you believe me to be racist am I actually racist? (Of course not)
If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck then most of the time it's a duck.
You know that's prejudice right?
of course...but I'm a duck hating ***.
look you can both be racist. the guy that called bush a monkey and you for calling obama a monkey. there's plenty of room at the idiots table for everyone!
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