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Apr 9th, 2008 at 3:20 pm by Susie

That this Obama delegate was asked to resign over this. Show me a parent anywhere who hasn’t referred to their kids as monkeys:

Posted in Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows

9 Responses to “Absurd”

on 09 Apr 2008 at 3:35 pm1JJ

Uh-oh … stay out of this one. “Monkey” is a dogwhistle word, no matter how it’s intended.
on 09 Apr 2008 at 3:46 pm2brendancalling

that is f-ing idiotic.
I call my kid a monkey all the time. For chrissakes, with his new haircut he actually LOOKS like a monkey.

I love love love how everything is parsed these days for the sake of offending someone, anyone. We’re a nation of hypersensitive ninnies. I’m sure the next time I ask someone, “hey you eat yet” I’ll get called an anti-semite (that’s for all you Annie Hall fans).
I never realized that calling a kid a monkey for climbing the walls is the same thing as calling him a racial epithet.
Dogwhistle, my ass. This is just hypersensitive nincompoopery.
on 09 Apr 2008 at 4:13 pm3MrSnrub

I can’t believe that parents called the cops over this.
on 09 Apr 2008 at 4:46 pm4chris

I don’t call my 3 year old a monkey AT ALL.

The big reason is that while I’m white, she’s part white and part African American. I have been tempted to. So many times I’ve come this close to blurting out that she’s climbing or hanging or jumping like a monkey. But I’ve stop myself everytime. The word just has so much racial baggage that goes with it.
on 09 Apr 2008 at 4:57 pm5MrSnrub

Chris: same here. Our son is bi-racial and personally avoiding the usage makes sense.
on 09 Apr 2008 at 6:14 pm6KidRanger

Get over yourselves, ya thin-skinned ninnies. Sometimes a monkey is just a monkey, especially where kids are concerned.
on 09 Apr 2008 at 9:03 pm7k

But it’s okay to beat your wife with a baseball bat.
I think the woman should be commended for trying to do the right thing, even if it would seem to me, here on the outside, that it’s an over-reaction. I am sorry if she is being unjustly punished.
on 10 Apr 2008 at 12:36 am8Izquierdo

The same remark effectively ended Howard Cosell’s football broadcasting career.

BTW, why is Cenk Ugyur’s delivery so lame?
It’s halting, repetitoous, and somewhat lacking in coherence.
on 10 Apr 2008 at 12:48 pm9Sweet Sue

I call my cats “little monkeys” all the time; I ‘m sure if I had kids I’d call them the same thing. I remember how hurt and bewildered Cosell was at the time. Bewildered because as he said, “I call my grandkids little monkeys” and hurt because Ali didn’t come to his defense.
Is it now wrong to say “more fun than a barrelful of monkeys?”
Look if you really want to be mad at someone be mad at Mitch Miller. In the late fifties, when he had a popular TV show (I know-go figure. Well there was no cable), the lovely and talented little Leslie Uggams performed on his show and the producers sent out a monkey-or chimp-dressed in an identical outfit. She later wrote how confused and mortified she was. My point is that sometimes a monkey is really an insult; sometimes it’s just a primate.

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