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I am not being any of those things

Posted on: August 29, 2018 at 10:57:17 CT

Mormad MU

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and regardless of how he MEANT it, it's a well-known fact that there is a racial connotation, or at least the ability to be perceived as racist. For a political contender to be unaware of that context is simply stupid.

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“Don’t monkey this up”.. wasting no time. - ivan drago MU - 8/29 10:21:32

By supporting the socialist agenda was his statement. - TigerMatt MU

- 8/29 12:37:16

his wife's name is Casey Black Desantis - ashtray UF - 8/29 11:53:56

Santa isn't black!!!! nm - hokie VT - 8/29 12:02:58

Wut?! - MizzouTigerz MU

- 8/29 13:24:25

I predict the phrase - mizzoumurfkc MU

- 8/29 11:37:48

Sometimes people use phrases that have meanings - MizzouTigerz MU

- 8/29 11:20:51

That's not nearly as racist as this. Link - hokie VT - 8/29 11:20:46

that's about as idiotic as it gets - phonetics...jfc (nm) - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 11:27:08

Notice that the guy apologized. He apologized for using - hokie VT - 8/29 11:32:24

RE: “Don’t monkey this up”.. wasting no time. - scan MU - 8/29 11:20:18

You see what you want to see, and hear what you want to - MizzouTigerz MU

- 8/29 11:07:12

you're advancing race relations by leaps in bounds in your - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 11:07:03

Most liberals abhor rational discussion - mu7176grad MU - 8/29 11:21:19

the need to perpetuate this crap is miserable. what do - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 11:26:17

RE: the need to perpetuate this crap is miserable. what do - scan MU - 8/29 11:27:29

No one here is trying to whitewash this important issue. No - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 11:06:20

WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE YELLOW?!?!!? - dangertim MU

- 8/29 11:07:58

I thought meth heads were the yellow ones? - MizzouTigerz MU

- 8/29 11:09:00

So that comment is proof to you that all Trump - MUTGR MU - 8/29 11:02:07

Errbody hate whitey! (nm) - Fourth and Long MU - 8/29 11:01:42

Every white in america is a racist - mu7176grad MU - 8/29 10:58:47

Did DeSantis just expose - TigerJackSwartz MU

- 8/29 10:57:35

he's going to clean it all up Spic and Span(nm) - dangertim MU

- 8/29 11:07:10

You are a racist for saying "chink" - mu7176grad MU - 8/29 11:02:02

Hey, hey, HEY. We will have none of that here Buster!(nm) - DHighlander NWMSU - 8/29 11:01:21

Hillary exposed our state secrets, but you resort to this? - MIZZOUowns SEC - 8/29 10:44:27

She's Grateful Dead - mattieo86 MU - 8/29 10:45:28

Isn't that using a black-male or a gorilla war fair? - mattieo86 MU - 8/29 10:44:22

Are you equating blacks to monkeys? Sounds like, in the back - tigerNkc MU

- 8/29 10:41:31

He and Democrats are literally the only ones who thought - Calca STL - 8/29 10:42:18

always the case (nm) - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 10:43:39

Yes, it's just the damned liberals - Mormad MU - 8/29 10:48:12

once again, re-read the quote and stop being hysterical - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 10:49:25

There's zero chance, in your mind, that he chose the - MrBlueSky MU - 8/29 11:33:39

so now a guy is a pig because there's a "possibility" he - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 12:53:15

I'm saying he deliberately said what he said - MrBlueSky MU - 8/29 13:07:55

You're saying that, but what you are really doing is assumin - MizzouTigerz MU

- 8/29 13:13:56

Of course I'm assuming. I'm making an inference - MrBlueSky MU - 8/29 13:19:39

you're ascribing to him attributes you want him to have - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 13:53:52

What extremely little you know about the guy, extremely - MizzouTigerz MU

- 8/29 13:26:28

yes, zero. besides, who are you to claim what he "intended" - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 12:52:08

yes, that's correct. ZERO. - blake1771 KC - 8/29 11:39:25

I am not being any of those things - Mormad MU - 8/29 10:57:17

you just want to monkey up this thread(nm) - Panthera MU - 8/29 11:14:44

if mormad is black, that's racist. If he isn't, it's not. Se - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 11:18:54

so anytime somebody says the word monkey - Sal KC - 8/29 11:01:46

Nobody is saying that - MrBlueSky MU - 8/29 11:34:48

that's precisely what's being done (nm) - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 12:52:25

somebody appears to be saying exactly that - Sal KC - 8/29 11:47:28

Seems to me someone is saying that. (nm) - Sarazen MU - 8/29 11:35:59

it is astonishing how he doesn't see that he's the one - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 11:03:04

monkey something up is to goof it up, as a monkey would - - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 11:00:00

jfc, dude. there was no racial connotation other than - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 10:58:31

If you want to take that link in historical perspective - Calca STL - 8/29 10:49:09

And that changes it how? - Mormad MU - 8/29 10:59:34

Justify using "monkey it up"? - Calca STL - 8/29 11:25:35

lol right on cue(nm) - Ragnar Danneskjold MU

- 8/29 10:36:52

RE: “Don’t monkey this up”.. wasting no time. - TigerJackSwartz MU

- 8/29 10:36:18

Government needs to rename all the primates. - Newcatbirdseat MU - 8/29 10:34:42

DAMN! I WAS RIGHT!!!!.... - DoltfromSTL MU - 8/29 10:33:11

lol (nm) - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 10:32:52

you're the type who gets offended over the term - Calca STL - 8/29 10:28:25

republican playbook.. - ivan drago MU - 8/29 10:34:50

admit you're the one equating black people to monkeys - 90Tiger MU - 8/29 10:46:10

Democratic playbook - Calca STL - 8/29 10:37:15

Everyone remembers Howard Cosell(nm) - Mormad MU - 8/29 10:39:03

So he was speaking about the socialist agenda - Sal KC - 8/29 10:23:00

A liberal is not a thinking person so much as a set of - RayKinsella1922 SEC - 8/29 10:24:09