05-31-2018, 01:57 PM
(05-31-2018, 01:43 PM)bfine32 Wrote: She didn't "call Trump out on his white supremacists tendencies". She called him a White Supremacist. How's about Sykes calling him an orangutan? And yes, folks continually getting hung up in racial stereotypes is difficult for me to understand.
We have 0 idea of Rosanne's inner thoughts. maybe she just said it because VJ's appearance reminded her of a character she had seen in a movies**.
**DISCLAIMER: This is in no way defending Rosanne's comments, bfine admitting to being a racist, or think all black people look like apes. This is simply to draw correlation that someone NOT caught up in race could easily view it a simply a slur on the physical appearance.
But calling black people apes is a well-known racial slur racists use. One has to be quite ignorant to not be aware of that. So if she didn't mean it in a racist way, she has to be astonishingly ignorant.
I'm not claiming calling Trump an orang-utan is perfectly fair, but this is clearly not racist in the same sense, as it's not a well-known racial slur to call white people orangutans.
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