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anyone else call their kid(s) a little monkey?
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Posted 16 hours ago #
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I should think it reminds people of times they've suffered abuse.
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This is easy: the people that don't see the racism are racist for not seeing the racism. The people that do see the racism are racist for seeing it as racist.
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and the follow up
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If you look at that and instantly think "oh dear that's racist because he's black", then you are indeed racist.
Literally, all I see is a kid.
Posted 13 hours ago # -
If you look at that and instantly think "oh dear that's racist because he's black", then you are indeed racist.
Literally, all I see is a kid.
Well said Dan. My sentiments entirely.
Far too many people (on here as well as not on here) just want to see an excuse to show the race card.
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I can't think I knew that some call black people monkeys, always associated it with kids. I call my son a monkey, he's half Chinese rather than fully black so guess that's OK? He says that I must be a monkey then as I'm his Dad.
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He says that I must be a monkey then as I'm his Dad.
You should hear what my 31 yr old calls me! It's usually something like, 'Dad, ya ****'
Oh thank you swear filter. Again.
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glasgowdan » If you look at that and instantly think "oh dear that's racist because he's black", then you are indeed racist.
Yes of course that's it. Clearly it's only the black slebs who are racist.
mudshark » I can't think I knew that some call black people monkeys
Had a sheltered life? I thought it was common knowledge that black footballers got abused with monkey chants and having bananas thrown at them (in the bad old days - hopefully that sort of thing has mostly stopped now) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/8898054/Former-Liverpool-star-John-Barnes-says-society-is-to-blame-for-racism-problem-that-football-just-cant-shift.html
Posted 8 hours ago # -
Yes, but not when my black friends and their kids are around. (I have two black friends.)
Posted 7 hours ago # -
I once said "chop chop!" to a chinese friend (who was dawdling)
I was mortified. It prompted a conversation about the fact I was pretty blind to her ethnicity - and had I not have been, how I wouldn't have said it.
The outcome was we agreed that I was a muppet, not a racist.
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I once said "chop chop!" to a chinese friend (who was dawdling) I was mortified.
Ive used it a few times while trying to get co-workers or contractors to get a move on, its not insulting, its not even understood by most native Cantonese speakers I know.
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She grew up here in the 70s/80s - it certainly made up part of the incessant bullying she had to put up with in her youth. The Cantonese may not consider it a racist slur, but Caucasian kids from the home counties certainly did.
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I call my son a monkey, he's half Chinese rather than fully black so guess that's OK?
Anyone who cannot see the problem with this photograph is deluded. Its as plain as the nose on your face!
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What about this one? Cute and cuddly or racist and highly offensive??
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For me it says good things about this country and its attitude to racism.
Rather than thinking that somebody put the kid in the jumper to cause offence, perhaps the person who set it up is completely unaware of the reference and didn't give it a thought because they don't see race as an issue?
My kids are learning about racism at school at the moment and we have had a few conversations about it at home. They understand the concept of discriminating on the base of skin colour, the idea they cannot understand is why a person would dislike somebody just because they have a different skin colour. It is a hard one to explain to young, naive children.
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African colleagues often refer to a kid, any kid as a cheeky monkey.
I was quite surprised, being a sensitive lefty.We had a conversation about this in work a year or so ago, when talking about phrases they'd picked up from living in the UK.
They said they heard it used a lot over here and found it amusing, so picked it up themselves.
Maybe it's a Northern thing but everyone uses it up here.
I think because it's in such common use 'Monkey' doesn't really get used so much as a racial insult.
Thick Northern Monkey has almost become a badge of pride.
Don't hear kids being called 'Scruffy Arab' much these days.
Was in common usage when I was a kid.Posted 16 minutes ago # -
Ooooh, It's a northern thing?
Where's this Bellnd from? If he's southern can we string him up for cultural appropriation as well?
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