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Thread: Prominent Democrats also 'guilty' of using the phrase 'monkey around'

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    I have a Monkey Grip inner tube patch kit. There's a term to describe a cluster-f as "a monkey f'ing a football". Put ten monkeys in a room with ten typewriters and eventually they will bang out the entire works of Shakespeare.


    That's a lot of racist stuff there.

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    Liberals do themselves a disservice by freaking out over things like this. There are instances where people make actual racist comments and revive the old practice of comparing blacks to animals...but this wasn't one.

    It's a bit of a stretch and reminds me of the boy who cried wolf.

    Complaining about this makes it more difficult to point out actual instances of racism.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    Liberals do themselves a disservice by freaking out over things like this. There are instances where people make actual racist comments and revive the old practice of comparing blacks to animals...but this wasn't one.

    It's a bit of a stretch and reminds me of the boy who cried wolf.

    Complaining about this makes it more difficult to point out actual instances of racism.

    I wish some liberals here would understand that, the ones who go around calling members racists.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    I wish some liberals here would understand that, the ones who go around calling members racists.
    Some members are racist. Most are not.

    The term may be thrown around too casually, but it doesn't mean it's sometimes accurate.

    People do dilute its meaning when used inappropriately.

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    Monkeys are funny!

    Monkey MOd.jpg
    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining"----Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    Some members are racist. Most are not.

    The term may be thrown around too casually, but it doesn't mean it's sometimes accurate.

    People do dilute its meaning when used inappropriately.

    Historically, those who were racist were thought so by most everyone and given a boot off the forum.

    I'm talking about the few who use it to antagonize and harass members personally.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Safety View Post
    False equivalencies abound. It's like someone calling a black person a watermelon eater, then conservatives running around posting phrases of liberals saying someone eats cantaloupes.

    "monkey this up" and "monkeying around" are two different phrases, one is common the other is adlib.
    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    So, during the debate on the ACA, would have been OK with one of the opponants saying that Obama should not "monkey around" with our health care system? After all, you just said that "monkey around" is completely different than "monkey up".

    Safety won't address that question. There's a reason for that.

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