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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoseanne also compared Susan Rice to an ape in 2013
You know this wasn't Roseanne Barr first time calling a black woman an ape -- pic.twitter.com/zGLTNE6ZPv
12:34 PM - May 29, 2018
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bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Barr has an addiction to racism.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)dates far back. This is not regular insulting someone over appearance.
Hitler did the same, when comparing Jews to rats.
It's a dehumanization thing. A black woman I saw on MJ said it best...it's to send codespeak to the public that we should have a (President or whatever) that is at least HUMAN.
There's also all sorts of other implications about this particular comparison, like animal-like, low intelligence, living in jungles, etc. It's intentional and is NOT the same as making fun of someone's double chin, or Trump's hair.
Conservatives talk this way among themselves and in their forums, and forget that this is not normal or acceptable in the real world with decent people, or in this country.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)MANative
(4,112 posts)Quixote1818
(28,968 posts)Gothmog
(145,558 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Right before ABC gave her the show.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Abedin isn't German, so that doesn't even make sense. She's Middle Eastern...Iranian or something.
Disgusting comments. What social world does a person live in, that that's considered acceptable comments?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Barr posted numerous inflammatory remarks, videos and articles about Clinton this week, including one that refers to her as Hitlery Clinton and another that labels her anti-Semitic Hillary.
Graphic Footage of Hitlery Clinton Could Damage Her https://t.co/acSizah0Vk via @YouTube
Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) August 26, 2016
On Friday alone, Barr tweeted and retweeted several posts about Clinton and her aide Huma Abedin, whom Barr labeled a filthy nazi whore. Abedin, a Muslim American, is married to former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner, who is Jewish.
jew hater hillary clintons handler huma weiner is a filthy nazi whore: https://t.co/Rf6rZp75BZ
Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) August 26, 2016
https://www.jta.org/2016/08/26/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/roseanne-barr-calls-hillary-clinton-anti-semitic-says-top-aide-is-filthy-nazi-whore#.Wr1aVTkzI_0.twitter
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Really. That's insane talk.
I question the sanity of some Trumpers.
syringis
(5,101 posts)Well then, Ms Barr... Apes are intelligent and very interesting.
Let's talk about you : to which animal, you make me think of ? Which one? Which one?
Oh, yes !!! Got it !
This one ! Hippopotamus...
Not because of the size, but because it is one of the most, if not the most dangerous animal :
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)The resemblance is uncanny! Notice how THAT rude comment is okay, since it's superficial and merely refers to her appearance and her recent tweets...nothing to do with her race or gender.
Good comparison!
Initech
(100,102 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Maybe back in 2013 Twitter wasn't policing things as much as now.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Humans are Apes. Human males have the largest genitals by proportion of all the Great Apes.
This is a stupid insult and the animosity focused on Obama's female advisers is super weird.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)The theory is that looooong ago, both primates & humans had a common ancestor that was neither ape nor human. It split into the two species. So technically, if that theory is correct, neither apes nor humans descended from each other.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)We descended from a common ancestor further up the tree.
I was just commenting, I suppose, that the use of the term "ape" was incorrect, except in a casual way.
Much remains unknown about the common ancestors of living apes and humans from the critical time when these branches diverged. Fossil evidence from this part of the primate family tree is scarce, and consists mostly of isolated teeth and broken jaw fragments. As such, researchers were not sure what the last common ancestors of living apes and humans might have looked like, and even whether they originated in Africa or Eurasia. [See Photos of Alesi and the Kenya Excavation Site]
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fossil-reveals-what-last-common-ancestor-of-humans-and-apes-looked-liked/
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)But I stand corrected; we're all Hominoids. Us and the Apes.
And Roseanne Barr is a dipshit Hominoid.