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an [adjective]wife and an [adjective]lady are both still people.
Is an Ape a person? No. Now stop with the false equivalences.
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You’re jus making it worse.
Emperor’s new clothes.
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It’s not my style, and I know that when they go low, we should go high (and that I really shouldn’t go there), but I definitely would rather see Michelle’s beautiful sunny face than the other one’s constipated-mustelid countenance…
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Backgrounder:
Clay County, West Virginia, is literally right in the center of the state, and this year they went 77.4% for Trump vs HRC, with 17.5% with 2,958 ballots cast.
In 2012, they went for Romney, with 65.5% of the votes vs Obama with 30.8% of the 2,989 ballots cast.
Interestingly, in 2008, the results were closer. McCain got 53.75% of the votes while Obama got 43.52%. 3,265 ballots were cast that year.
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Webster Tarpley got sued for insinuating that sort of thing. I’m far more comfortable with the “worked as a model without a proper visa” route.
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Lighten up, Francis. I said it wasn’t as bad as being called an ape.
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With luck, Melania Trump will plagiarize Michelle Obama’s wardrobe too.
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To be fair, part of the reason we still have rampant racism is because we’re too quick to brush off racist comments like this woman’s.
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Could use a cup of coffee myself too! Hope you’re feeling better soon
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No. This matters. That I care and you don’t does not a Francis make.
I don’t tend to enable soft racism, ymmv.
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Well then! That’s ok then.
She is really a klass act.
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MRN
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I didn’t brush it off. What she said was awful.
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Obvious trolley is obvious.
I’d like to watch Ms. Mayor die slowly in a fire, basted with a Ghost Pepper tapenade. I realize that my comment might be construed as angry, but in no way was it meant to be.
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My own opinions are that all humans are indeed apes, and that other apes are indeed people.
I am guessing that most modern racists would be hesitant to profess belief in it, because it is demonstrably counter-factual, but many white supremacist myths specify that white people never did evolve from apes. There was some popular currency in the 19th century that whites came from Hyperborea, an enlightened kingdom in the Northernmost regions, and the are being devolved by their contact with the apes of Africa. So white people in this model supposedly retain more of their humanity, while black people have been losing theirs. It also implies bestiality, as if ignorant white people interbred with apes and yielded black people. These concepts were later incorporated into official Nazi ideology.
That’s not to say that all reference to Hyperborea are racist - some use it as a poetic name for Scandinavian, Germanic, or even Celtic civilizations. But for some it ties into some bogus concepts which are quite ignorant of even basic anthropology. White people are not a product of Santa’s workshop.
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[quote=“popobawa4u, post:99, topic:89491”]
all humans are indeed apes, and that other apes are indeed people.
[/quote]I think it’s pretty safe assumption that the woman in the OP probably isn’t a student of Darwin. It was positively meant as an insult and not an observation of evolution.
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My point was that as an intended insult, it fails hard because it only betrays the ignorance of an absurd depiction of history. The somewhat obscure origins of the idea demonstrate its bogosity.
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