I am so over all the sensitivity. Everyone is offended over everything.
Roseanne and Valerie are both obnoxious people.
Trump gets called an orangutan by a comedian on tv and that comedian keeps his show. No outrage, no cancellation, no public outcry, no apology. Everyone laughs, repeats it and life goes on.
Why is it bad if a black person is compared to an ape, but just fine and dandy if the same is done to a white person? Is there a racial component in apeness? I don't think so. It seems much ado about nothing. The way I see it, if something is bad, it is bad across the board. If one is okay with the orangutan comments, one can't object to the ape comment. It is disingenuous. But, that is my opinion. I believe in equal outrage for equal offenses.
I could not care less about the show being canceled or the people on the set losing their jobs. I really do not care what happens to anyone in Hollywood. They are supposed to entertain us and have fallen short of that mission.
Besides, I haven't watched ABC in 20 years, so no loss there.
In the big scheme of life who, other than those who worked on the show, cares about any of this? It is all meaningless dribble.
My opinion.
There is a 400 year serious, racist history of comparing black people to apes and monkeys in order to make them less human and thus justify slavery and other forms of oppression. And this wasn't just inferences. Racist "experts" in medical and other professional fields promoted the idea that black people are subhuman and less evolved.
https://mla.hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:11480/datastreams/CONTENT/content?download=true
Comparing Black People To Monkeys Has A Long, Dark Simian History
For centuries the West has found it useful to compare black people to monkeys
Chinese Museum Pulls Exhibit Comparing Animals to Black People
This actually continues today via racist ideas that black people are inherently prone to dishonesty, criminality or violence. You will hear it in veiled comments from people describing black or brown people as "animals".
This disgusting comparison of black people to animals was anchored by an institutionalized system of racism. One that kept black people enslaved, then segregated and lynched and now shot dead in the street by LE.
I mean anti-racists actually had a saying, "You don't lynch a horse", to try to convince racists that they knew deep down that black people weren't actually animals.
There has been no systematic oppression of the white majority. White people arent followed in stores. They aren't arrested for not immediately buying a product in a business, they aren't routinely denied a job because of their accent or the sound of their name. They aren't consistently compared to primates.
People have long used animal comparisons to insult a specific person. But only racists have consistently used animal comparisons to dehumanize an entire group of people based on nothing more than their genetic heritage.
Thus, while other comparisons may be ugly or rude, historically consistent comparisons of an entire group of humans to one type of animal, is dangerous and disgusting.
Enough little black kids have had to endure being called monkeys because of you know what like this. But comparing Trump to an orangutan has no basis in racism or in a racist history and thus will not effect an entire group of people based on their ethnic heritage.
That's the difference, as plain as I can make it. I hope that makes sense.
Finally, only those with the privilege not had to endure the effects of this kind of oppression can say that people offended by this evil are being "too sensitive".
Racism is at the root of so much endless suffering of all kinds throught history and the world. One can never be too sensitive to evil.
