Dogwatcher wrote:I'm not telling you how to feel, I'm telling you that you missed the point of the 'ape debate'.
Here's the point, so well supplied by Cennals05.
Reakon this is where the debate goes off on a tangent for a helluva lot of people.
Simply because they don't see - or refuse to see - "ape" and "monkey" slurs for the racist epithets they are.
And I reakon that's because, historically, they've been used to attack people of African descent, particularly in the US.
We've all heard racist comments about Aborigines but, until recent years, I honestly can't recall hearing any primate references in this context.
That's not to say they weren't used but were perhaps less common.
Clearly, that's changed and it's now much more prevalant.
Easy solution really.
Don't use them.