• thericofactor
    41·
    3 months ago

    People, not person. That’s the obvious difference you seem to be consequently ignoring here to try to incite discussion.

    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
      11·
      3 months ago

      So caricaturing Obama as a monkey wouldn’t be racist, then?

      He would even “deserve” it, being a war criminal and all that.

      • thericofactor
        21·
        3 months ago

        <sigh> black people as a race are historically insulted by depicting them as primates and of course that would weigh much more than this case of a single Caucasian man. Hence racism as opposed to insult.

        • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
          11·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, all of a sudden, russians are “caucasian”. It’s very convenient to hide racism behind “that’s not a race, though”. /s

          People used to be racist against italians, baltic people and the irish. Don’t tell me that a russian person is ok, because they’re “white”.

            • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
              12·
              3 months ago

              As I’ve said before: monkey caricatures have historical precedent. It’s about as bad as depicting him like a kraken/squid.