Gorilla Statue Removed After Complaints It Was 'Racially Insensitive'
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Anyone who complained is a disgusting racist pig.
It seems the gorilla statue is going to be reinstated following a stink by local residents. But it'll be uncaged, and on the loose!
Anyone who complained is underemployed.
If you see a plastic gorilla and think of black people-YOU are the racist.
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If you see a plastic gorilla and think of black people-YOU are the racist."
i dunno about that. when my son was an infant and starting to speak in joyous
one word sentences, he would celebrate every new discovery. one day, mrs neo
had him in her lap as she perused a magazine... and neophyte's pudgy little
hand shot out to a picture of oprah winfrey and he shrieked in triumph...
"MUNG-KEE!!!"
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"If you see a plastic gorilla and think of black people-YOU are the racist."
EXACTLY.
Everything Liberals touch turns to joyless s#/%
If you see a plastic gorilla and think of black people-YOU are the racist.
And, if you see a plastic gorilla and don't think of black people, you're a racist as well because you're making an effort not to be a bigot.
The best way to avoid being a racist in this context is to make sure you don't see any plastic gorillas or, for that matter, gorillas made out of any other material. But, if you deliberately avoid looking at a gorilla, you're a racist for the aforementioned reason.
This is a game you can't win.
"This is a game you can't win."
Like those trick questions my wife keeps asking me for 45 years. - "You're just saying that because it's the east answer - you never even thought about it" (exactly)
What? To gorillas?
People need to get a grip.
Boycott the NBA!!!!
http://www.nba.com/suns/news/gorilla_050816.html
So would it be in bad taste if someone made a former first lady joke now?
This is an honest to God true story.
One of the Planet of the Ape series, Conquest I believe, was shot with my graduate university for external shots, as at the time it was a little futuristic in architecture. So of course they chose the movie for the weekly series.
Well before the movie started, the Black students had occupied all the front row seats, and talked as though they were in their own living room. This talk did not abate when the movie started, and made it difficult to hear the dialog. No matter, I was mostly there just to see the university's buildings on the screen anyway.
Well, the climatic scene had the apes breaking out of captivity and overcoming the humans. Now, the producers were already very politically correct, and the humans had the requisite representation from all the races, and Blacks were well represented. No matter, when the apes broke out, the Blacks in the front rows just whooped and hollered. It was clear which side they were on, and further, which side they identified with.
I mean, fine, if this is how they wish to identify themselves. But I believe they should have no quarrels if others choose to agree with them.