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[Relique du Madde]

I feel stupid... I forgot to close a browser window and as a result I accidently put my death match in the PBP occ forem. I hope the mods sees my reporting message and moves it very soon.

 

[Relique du Madde]

So... appearantly the saying "A bunch of trained monkeys can write bill better then that piece of ****" is now a racist comment... GOD I hate this country.

 

[Ginnel]

So... appearantly the saying "A bunch of trained monkeys can write bill better then that piece of ****" is now a racist comment... GOD I hate this country.

As far as I was aware the word monkey has been used as a derogatory comment for black people for quite a while.

EDIT: While it may not have been a direct attack maybe they could have chosen a different way to phrase it?

EDIT EDIT: the Metro (newspaper of free aceness) ran an article on the comic they drew about it today, while the obvious over reactors have asked for the paper to be shut down, I do think the paper could have show better judgement.

 

[Ginnel]

For me radio is something that gets put on in the shower for 15minutes and then every now and then I listen to a late night show maybe once/twice a week.

Other than that its ipod all the way.

 

[Relique du Madde]

As far as I was aware the word monkey has been used as a derogatory comment for black people for quite a while.

EDIT: While it may not have been a direct attack maybe they could have chosen a different way to phrase it?

Here's the thing, the phrase "trained monkeys can X better then that" is generally used as an insult no matter what the race of the person is since it imply that the person that is at the receiving end of that comment is stupider then a common chimp. For the last 8 years that comment has been used in reference to everything the Bush Administration has done (even Condoliza Rice and no one complained one bit).

BUT in the case of where that saying was recently used (in the media) was in reference to the US stimulus bill WHICH was mostly written by Nancy Pelosci, who is white. Obama had NOTHING to do with the writing of that bill. Of course, the idiots of the world don't care since it's perfectly alright to call someone stupider then a monkey if they are not a member of the democratic party.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I should also mention the Infinate monkey Theorem..

 

[Ginnel]

ah you see I haven't seen the trained monkeys comment just this

Fury at Obama chimp cartoon | Metro.co.uk

I'm pretty sure that average joe public in US is pretty similar to Joe Public over here, they couldn't care less about the person who wrote it and see Obama as the figurehead for everything

I should also mention the Infinate monkey Theorem..

Yah I know that one

 

[Relique du Madde]

ah you see I haven't seen the trained monkeys comment just this

It was a radio comment I heard on a talk radio program...

I'm pretty sure that average joe public in US is pretty similar to Joe Public over here, they couldn't care less about the person who wrote it and see Obama as the figurehead for everything

I also saw that picture. Like everyone I see Obama as a figurehead, but I am sophisticated enough to separate him from the authorship of the bill since I know who wrote it.... and I hate her for wasting my tax money on her Golf Course and a stupid little rodent which will undoubtedly get eaten by snakes, hawks, cats, rats and owls.

 

[Ginnel]

It was a radio comment I heard on a talk radio program...


I also saw that picture. Like everyone I see Obama as a figurehead, but I am sophisticated enough to separate him from the authorship of the bill since I know who wrote it.... and I hate her for wasting my tax money on her Golf Course and a stupid little rodent which will undoubtedly get eaten by snakes, hawks, cats, rats and owls.

Ah yes but unfortunately we have to accept that the majority of the world don't share our intelligence and people in general are dumb, tending to follow so they don't have the responsibility of thinking for themselves.

It's a sad fact.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

ah you see I haven't seen the trained monkeys comment just this

Fury at Obama chimp cartoon | Metro.co.uk

I'm pretty sure that average joe public in US is pretty similar to Joe Public over here, they couldn't care less about the person who wrote it and see Obama as the figurehead for everything

Yah I know that one

Funny, yet maybe too political for EN World?