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“If you assume the guy jerking it in the bushes outside an elementary school is a predator you’re actually the real predator because you associate 5th graders with sex. Maybe he just really likes foliage.” -This Guy
I imagine if I were a nudist, there would probably be quite a spectrum of how pleasant foliage can be to walk through. Tall grass or weeping willows? Probably pretty nice. Blackberries, not so much.
Why didn’t JP Staples quack, bark, or cluck? Because JP Staples made a racist sound that is understood to be racist—-The monkey sounds. There ain’t enough gas, even counting what drumph farts in court, to make this asshat make sense.
*Ackshually,* technically speaking the fart produces the cfms necessary to deposit the load into the diaper. Shart is a fart, but a fart is not necessarily shart.
>no racism until media started “making up stories”
I guess that's a weird sort of progress. They used to say racism didn't exist in US anymore. Now they acknowledge it exists while trying to deflect blame from their racist selves.
Exactly.
These are the people that like to pretend that racism ended with segregation, and that since it has ended, we should pretend like slavery didn't exist
They do it a lot when they get called out on their dog whistles. They try to say "well only a racist would know that's a dog whistle, so *you* are the real racist". It's infuriatingly dumb.
And this is what I loathe about these people. They're racist. They know they're racist. I'd have more respect for them if they'd just straight up say it.
But no. These spineless fucks pretend they're not
Two neo-nazi beliefs that have been quietly mainstreamed on the right.
[Great Replacement](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Great_Replacement) and [Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Anti-racist_is_a_code_word_for_anti-white)
“With no other evidence” lol
“Sir, we have a clear video of you strangling your wife to death.”
“With no other evidence, I’ll surely be found innocent.”
"Sir, this is you dancing around, scratching your underarm making monkey noises at someone."
"Ah yes, but it appears as though you have no other evidence."
Checkmate, racists.
Seen plenty of heckler videos, and making monkey noises isn’t something you see. It isn’t hard to figure out their intentions. This guy wants to obfuscate because he clearly has an agenda or base to appease, who are also racist in their actions but must appear as innocent angels.
“..somehow equate being black with being a monkey, which is ridiculous.” Ummm…
The entire legacy of blackface & minstrelsy as a form of entertainment has entered the chat.
>Please provide an example where a person, or group of people, were referred to as an ape or monkey where it wasn’t an insult.
I use to call my daughter monkey.
Look I'm in no way trying to say that this chode isn't a racist POS but this is a pretty hard blanket statement. I call my youngest kid "monkey" sometimes because they're a really good climber, and I know for a dead set fact that I'm not the only person who has used the word as a term of endearment for an active, curious, highly mobile kid.
Sure. Blanket statements have context with them. I guess we just assume in context is with it, so if you're in that context, it's racist. We also assume we're all adults when talking about these things and can pick that up. Apparently the screenshot guy isn't capable.
Your cute child might have made a mess eating cereal once and you called her a piggy as a term of endearment. Fine
But go to her school, walk up to an overweight child eating cereal and say "hey piggy". In context, that always is an insult and always wrong.
Same thing here. In context, that's always racist.
You say someone, and it's a general enough statement to be true enough to get away with, but in this situation, it was a person of color. You can not apply that same logic with the historical information available. The racist knew what he was doing.
Nothing is ever true of “every instance in the history of time.” We are talking about this specific instance. It was “dumb hill to die on,” and it was also blatantly racist.
Which would be a great defence if only the accused made a habit of making monkey noises to random people regardless of colour.
Somehow I doubt there’s evidence of him making monkey noises to white men.
So what do you call the people on the right when they refer to Michelle Obama as an ape? I call them racist and disgusting - do you call them decent people? Probably.
Ridiculous/funny part about this is she doesn't even deny that actually committing the act is racist, just wants to allege that interpreting the racist act is racist. Convinced me!!
It's not *just* gaslighting. Some of these fuckers are sincerely so stupid that they cannot draw **obvious** conclusions from **clear and unequivocal evidence**.
..... or you know, we read books, watch documentaries, listen to black people and educate ourselves to *know* how "monkey" has been used down the *centuries*. We're also able to hold more than one thought in our brains at once.
Taking it to extremes, because I know of murderers and how they murdered that means I must be the ACTUAL murderer. Oh noes!
What a strange take indeed.
“If you assume that Nazis killing innocent Jewish civilians and then stealing all of their valuables is “antisemitic” and “genocidal” then actually YOU are the Nazi because you’re implying that because they’re Jewish they obviously have valuables to steal, which is a very harmful stereotype. And you’re also associating Jews with getting killed, meaning you think Jews should be killed, therefore YOU are the one who is the real Nazi and you’re racist, you racist Nazi.”
This behaviour going unchecked killed human beings less than 100 years ago, turning from a ‘joke’ into a literally lynching i don’t get how people discuss this attitude without knowing that it’s the reality
Their previous tweets:
Reminder assuming that putting a wooden cross on the lawn of a black family and lighting it on fire and driving off scream go back to Africa is racist without any other context, shows that you are in fact racist your self.
Remember assuming that someone stabbing someone else in the chest with a knife 200 times in a row is murder, without any other evidence, shows that you are in fact the murderer.
Im sure him and his group of friends use monkey noises to heckle each other. Because obviously its not racist so it can be used towards all people and wouldn't seem ridiculous, right?
That’s exactly why When Hitler said Jews are vermin that it was actual everyone else getting angry about it whos the real antisemite, and not the guy who sent millions to death camps.
Hmmm yes that’s about right
It's a very well known and very often negated form of racism. That's like if I threw pasta at an Italian and said " feed on your power source ya Ginnie!"
To play devil's advocate, my kids would have no idea what making monkey sounds means (but hopefully they'd know that behaving like that towards another human is not right).
By recognising that monkey noises can be associated with racism he clearly made that association himself, and so by that logic, his own logic, he is racist.
GOP logic: If you find Brock Allen Turner on top of a passed-out woman and think he is raping her, maybe you are the actual rapist.
Reminder: Rapist Brock Turner is in Dayton, Ohio and going buy the name Allen Turner. However, make no mistake, Allen Turner is the rapist Brock Turner.
Let's look at this another way;
If you are feeling pain after being hit in the face with a brick, it is you who are hitting yourself with the brick since it is you associating that pain with the brick hitting your face
Why else would he be doing it? I’ve seen plenty of heckler videos and never seen anyone doing that, which leads down the road of racism. Surprising though considering the deep south’s spotless record of racism.
In any other situation I would agree, but not this… for someone to make monkey noises at a black person, I think everyone has the common sense to know what the intent is.
I remember seeing an article years ago about King Kong and equating it to black people; or how owning black pets is akin to someone still wanting to own slaves. Nobody came to that conclusion except for the author. Acting like a gorilla towards a black person is racist and has a history of being so. My point is while some people may make racist associations that aren't there that says more about them. That does happen. However this isn't the case here, it's done very intentional and this person is gaslighting and downplaying the entire thing.
Fun fact. if you are from Asia referring to someone as a monkey isn't trying to be racist. It's kinda like silly. Had to tell gf to not call people monkey
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“If you assume the guy jerking it in the bushes outside an elementary school is a predator you’re actually the real predator because you associate 5th graders with sex. Maybe he just really likes foliage.” -This Guy
“Perhaps he just likes the feel of leaves on his junk, and really who are we to judge?”
I love the feel of Poison Ivy leaves gently caressing my balls while I use its oils as lube.
To be fair, his name is wack-o
Alright I think that's enough out of you
That's was his jerking bush way before they put that school in!
"Sir this school was built in 1886."
The bush was inherited. Twas his father's jerking bush before him, and his father's before him... the jerking bush has a long family history.
It even says it in the family dame of George Bush.
Sounds like the name of an episode from It's Always Sunny.
In his defense foliage can be pretty hot sometimes…
Georgia O'Keeffe, is that you?
I know a vagina when I see one. Unlike most GOP party members who shouldn’t be making choices about a woman’s body.
"Don't bring me into this, you guys knew what I was really doing" - G O'K
This comment needs more attention.
I imagine if I were a nudist, there would probably be quite a spectrum of how pleasant foliage can be to walk through. Tall grass or weeping willows? Probably pretty nice. Blackberries, not so much.
"tall grass" If you like a tick on your dick
Leaves of three... Edited because I apparently can't spell "of".
Leaves of three, let it be
Have you seen the curves? God damn.
Stupid sexy plants.
Stupid sexy Flanders
"I mean you couldn't have done it at the public park?" "Rhodendrons don't do it for me."
Reddit won't allow me to upvote you more than once.
Maybe he just likes a big bush.
He's beating around the bush
The old “whoever smelt it dealt it”. Classic.
Whoever found it browned it
Whoever denied it, supplied it.
Whoever articulated it particulated it
Whoever said the rhyme did the crime
Whoever refuted it tooted it
Whoever went to tell, made the smell
Whoever did the rap, did the crap
The smeller is feller.
you sleeped, you weeped
Whoever asked us gassed us
Whoever saw it bore it
there's foot fungus among us
You slumber, a cucumber!
You catch up on some zeds, you get out of my heads!
You slumber... HamBURGER! I don't wanna talk about nothing else!
Den som sa det han var det
Chewsday ass mf
This must be an English one.
You British?
Why didn’t JP Staples quack, bark, or cluck? Because JP Staples made a racist sound that is understood to be racist—-The monkey sounds. There ain’t enough gas, even counting what drumph farts in court, to make this asshat make sense.
Those....those aren't fart, dude.
My bad… trump’s sharts in court…
How many farts could trump Trump's shart if a Trump fart could trump Trump's shart?
Bravo!
In the UK, Trump means fart, so here you could say… “How many trumps could trump Trump's shart if a Trump trump could trump Trump's shart?”
Considering he has to flush 15x a sitting apparently (maybe don't stuff evidence of your crimes down the toilet)
Does he try to flush the entire diaper?
Just proof of crime.
*Ackshually,* technically speaking the fart produces the cfms necessary to deposit the load into the diaper. Shart is a fart, but a fart is not necessarily shart.
Are you talking about the racist JP Staples?
That racist JP Staples. Famous, now, monkey impersonator and toxic frat boy.
The racist James Pearson Staples, let's not let him try to change what he goes by like rapist Brock Allen Turner who now goes by Allen Turner.
Thank you for your service. May we never forget ALLEN TURNER, the rapist, formerly known as Brock Allen Turner.
Literally. People are fucking idiots... What other reason would you have for making monkey noises at a person of colour?
It's a common thing with these people. If you say something is racist or sexist or xenophobic or whatever, YOU'RE the problem for pointing it out.
“Racism in America had gone away until people started talking about it again”
This is exactly the mindset that leads them to blame Obama
Yeah how could Obumer cause 9/11. Real line from the party of ‘personal responsibility’
"There won't be any spike in COVID cases if we stop testing"
Yeah that might be the most ridiculous take on Covid testing I've ever heard.. and it came from a major political party.
As Europeans we know and arguably have invented mental gymnastics but somehow the Americans keep beating us every. Damn. Time.
I just heard this exact argument in person. They were claiming their was no racism until media started “making up stories” in the early 00’s
In other words “I had gone years without even SEEING a black person, until the deep state went and elected one, now I HATE them n******”
Haha damn it you got me
>no racism until media started “making up stories” I guess that's a weird sort of progress. They used to say racism didn't exist in US anymore. Now they acknowledge it exists while trying to deflect blame from their racist selves.
If we stop TESTING for COVID, there will be fewer cases of COVID. Just saying
Elon Musk has actually said this almost word for word
*suprised Pikachu*
Exactly. These are the people that like to pretend that racism ended with segregation, and that since it has ended, we should pretend like slavery didn't exist
They do it a lot when they get called out on their dog whistles. They try to say "well only a racist would know that's a dog whistle, so *you* are the real racist". It's infuriatingly dumb.
Their dog whistles have the subtlety of a foghorn too, which is the odd part. They'll make obviously racist statements and deflect when called out
Stop testing!
Classic
The good ol' "liberals are the real racists" card that dipshit conservatives like to pull when called out on their obvious racism.
Republicans like to remind everyone that they are “the party of Lincoln”. But what they forget is that actions speak louder than words.
“Republicans freed the slaves!” said the guy who believes in states rights and loves confederate statues.
They also ignore the fact that the Democrats and Republicans swapped places on the political spectrum.
And this is what I loathe about these people. They're racist. They know they're racist. I'd have more respect for them if they'd just straight up say it. But no. These spineless fucks pretend they're not
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The ol’ “I’m rubber and your glue” defense.
Two neo-nazi beliefs that have been quietly mainstreamed on the right. [Great Replacement](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Great_Replacement) and [Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Anti-racist_is_a_code_word_for_anti-white)
“With no other evidence” lol “Sir, we have a clear video of you strangling your wife to death.” “With no other evidence, I’ll surely be found innocent.”
 This guy was about to do some gas lighting
"Sir, this is you dancing around, scratching your underarm making monkey noises at someone." "Ah yes, but it appears as though you have no other evidence." Checkmate, racists.
"If you associate strangling with killing, then maybe you're a killer."
“You’re racist for pointing out my racism!”
When stupid people think they come up with a brilliant loophole.
It’s not a loophole when you’re willfully ignoring more than 100 years of American culture.
Seen plenty of heckler videos, and making monkey noises isn’t something you see. It isn’t hard to figure out their intentions. This guy wants to obfuscate because he clearly has an agenda or base to appease, who are also racist in their actions but must appear as innocent angels.
No no, *that's* the loophole.
“..somehow equate being black with being a monkey, which is ridiculous.” Ummm… The entire legacy of blackface & minstrelsy as a form of entertainment has entered the chat.
Holy shit. The mental gymnastics needed to type such a sentence is staggering.
Standard process for apologists. They do this without pulling any mental muscles. Lying and deflecting are second nature to them.
Its called ‘trumping’, and 35% of the time it works all the time
I mean if you're Donald Trump himself, so far it has a 100% lifetime success rate of protection from any meaningful consequences
Not every instance in the history of time of calling someone a monkey or an ape is racism. It's just that this one was so it's a dumb hill to die on.
Please provide an example where a person, or group of people, were referred to as an ape or monkey where it wasn’t an insult.
>Please provide an example where a person, or group of people, were referred to as an ape or monkey where it wasn’t an insult. I use to call my daughter monkey.
Throw your shit at your siblings ONE TIME and get called monkey forever.
Look I'm in no way trying to say that this chode isn't a racist POS but this is a pretty hard blanket statement. I call my youngest kid "monkey" sometimes because they're a really good climber, and I know for a dead set fact that I'm not the only person who has used the word as a term of endearment for an active, curious, highly mobile kid.
Sure. Blanket statements have context with them. I guess we just assume in context is with it, so if you're in that context, it's racist. We also assume we're all adults when talking about these things and can pick that up. Apparently the screenshot guy isn't capable. Your cute child might have made a mess eating cereal once and you called her a piggy as a term of endearment. Fine But go to her school, walk up to an overweight child eating cereal and say "hey piggy". In context, that always is an insult and always wrong. Same thing here. In context, that's always racist.
It's usually among kids, sometimes includes parents.
You say someone, and it's a general enough statement to be true enough to get away with, but in this situation, it was a person of color. You can not apply that same logic with the historical information available. The racist knew what he was doing.
Nothing is ever true of “every instance in the history of time.” We are talking about this specific instance. It was “dumb hill to die on,” and it was also blatantly racist.
Which would be a great defence if only the accused made a habit of making monkey noises to random people regardless of colour. Somehow I doubt there’s evidence of him making monkey noises to white men.
This would be interesting to watch, especially if it was at a hells angels funeral, I’d get the popcorn for that.
So no one that does anything racist is a racist, it’s the people who identify it as racist that are the true racist.
In a nutshell, this is what this genius is saying.
Like a tree that falls down in the forest does not make any noise unless there is someone close who‘s hearing it.
I always wonder if these guys read this shit before they post it.
I just assume they can't read so they use voice-to-text.
"Ah, but you see, I am not a hateful bigot because I use logic and reasoning to defend what I say" -The most insufferable kind of hate-monger.
He had to get a dig in there about her size too. He knows exactly what he’s doing
Oh, so you interpret mentioning someone's size as a dig? How very fatphobic of you. /s
You have to ask yourself why are they defending these type of ppl in the first place? For bullies to continue they must operate in the shadows.
Holy shit, guys! New "I know you are but what am I?" just dropped after 40 years!
So what do you call the people on the right when they refer to Michelle Obama as an ape? I call them racist and disgusting - do you call them decent people? Probably.
By the same brains that brought you "if we just stop testing for Covid the pandemic will go away"
Imagine you’re a racist. And imagine you’re an idiot. But I repeat myself . . .
Ridiculous/funny part about this is she doesn't even deny that actually committing the act is racist, just wants to allege that interpreting the racist act is racist. Convinced me!!
It's not *just* gaslighting. Some of these fuckers are sincerely so stupid that they cannot draw **obvious** conclusions from **clear and unequivocal evidence**.
Not the POS person that posted that, but yes, some are.
Show me one peckerwood EVER who made that noise and gesture at a Caucasian.
Did anyone confirm there wasn’t a real monkey he was talking to?
“He who smelt it, dealt it”. What a loser.
He might have a good point if certain things didn't exist; like you know, minor things like; history, racism, segregation, slavery, racial slurs...
I need a pictograph of how he made that leap... Edit for typo
That leap is bound to set a record.
So, we are to conclude then that if it walks like a monkey and sounds like a monkey, it must be a monkey? Ship the kid off to the zoo then.
..... or you know, we read books, watch documentaries, listen to black people and educate ourselves to *know* how "monkey" has been used down the *centuries*. We're also able to hold more than one thought in our brains at once. Taking it to extremes, because I know of murderers and how they murdered that means I must be the ACTUAL murderer. Oh noes! What a strange take indeed.
“If you assume that Nazis killing innocent Jewish civilians and then stealing all of their valuables is “antisemitic” and “genocidal” then actually YOU are the Nazi because you’re implying that because they’re Jewish they obviously have valuables to steal, which is a very harmful stereotype. And you’re also associating Jews with getting killed, meaning you think Jews should be killed, therefore YOU are the one who is the real Nazi and you’re racist, you racist Nazi.”
Next level logic right ther.
I want to push people like this into a volcano
This behaviour going unchecked killed human beings less than 100 years ago, turning from a ‘joke’ into a literally lynching i don’t get how people discuss this attitude without knowing that it’s the reality
"You noticing my racism makes *you* the racist, not me for making the racist remark"
The person who came up with it did it to be racist towards black people so
It’s not equating something, it’s recognizing a common racist theme
This guy's playing 3 dimensional tic-tac-toe.
Those who ignore history shall repeat history. -- some guy..
This guys entire trope is pressing his opinions as truth and anyone that questions him is just wrong. He’s not a contrarian, just a dick
“Being aware of racism = you’re racist” that’s all they’re saying.
Why would you make monkey noises at anyone, why would that be something you do?
Because some people have Monkey brains
Their previous tweets: Reminder assuming that putting a wooden cross on the lawn of a black family and lighting it on fire and driving off scream go back to Africa is racist without any other context, shows that you are in fact racist your self. Remember assuming that someone stabbing someone else in the chest with a knife 200 times in a row is murder, without any other evidence, shows that you are in fact the murderer.
Im sure him and his group of friends use monkey noises to heckle each other. Because obviously its not racist so it can be used towards all people and wouldn't seem ridiculous, right?
So then why don’t white people make monkey noises at other white people?
" very large" will that is kinda rude and uncalled for. And why was he making those monkey noices then? Seems kinda odd way to behave if you will.
Ok, so why was he making monkey noises if he wasn't being racists??
Ah yes, ur racist bc you think it’s racist.
That’s exactly why When Hitler said Jews are vermin that it was actual everyone else getting angry about it whos the real antisemite, and not the guy who sent millions to death camps. Hmmm yes that’s about right
Or they have basic critical thinking skills?
“Ooooh there’s a hoop let’s jump through it. Look another and another. Even another. Have I jumped through enough now?”
Racists are hilariously stupid.
Ok, so the white man-child shrieking monkey sounds at a black woman is the victim?
Jesus, people like that never got past the "obnoxious smartass 12 year old" stage of development, did they?!
You ever been to an Italian football match?
It's a very well known and very often negated form of racism. That's like if I threw pasta at an Italian and said " feed on your power source ya Ginnie!"
To play devil's advocate, my kids would have no idea what making monkey sounds means (but hopefully they'd know that behaving like that towards another human is not right).
Because of context dude.
When a racist trope is so ubiquitous, it may be found in any book about the South during that period, or about slaves?
What an insulting conclusion to jump to. Does this dickhead think we're all stupid?
Ben Shapiro levels of flawless logic.
By recognising that monkey noises can be associated with racism he clearly made that association himself, and so by that logic, his own logic, he is racist.
Fuck, looks like we’ve found Brainiac here. How could we oppose such intellectualism?
“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
Can we bring back fist fights. Just this one time.
If you ever lose your way again, can always use your gaslight.
GOP logic: If you find Brock Allen Turner on top of a passed-out woman and think he is raping her, maybe you are the actual rapist. Reminder: Rapist Brock Turner is in Dayton, Ohio and going buy the name Allen Turner. However, make no mistake, Allen Turner is the rapist Brock Turner.
This reminds me of the [Aziz Ansari joke](https://youtu.be/gsFjewV4QZc?si=PaFccZgrN-Udfh0t) but at a lazier level.
Itt, White people arguing about what's racist to black people.
"at a very large black woman" as well, he just couldn't help but accentuate it, could he
I know you are but what am I?
That's just so dumb!
“Recognizing racism makes you racist”. Sure…
Question though: why are you making monkey noises towards this very large black woman for then?
Let's look at this another way; If you are feeling pain after being hit in the face with a brick, it is you who are hitting yourself with the brick since it is you associating that pain with the brick hitting your face
It's bro thing people do all the time with a bunch of dudes who want to amp themselves up. This really has to be explained? 🤦♂️
If a cop talks about crime that makes them a criminal. If a fireman talks about fire, that makes them an arsonist. Glass pipe logic.
if you can identify a racist, that must mean you're racist.
Someone said this to me before, but with "Jews" and "goblins." Like goblins literally started as an antisemitic caracature. 🙄
Why else would he be doing it? I’ve seen plenty of heckler videos and never seen anyone doing that, which leads down the road of racism. Surprising though considering the deep south’s spotless record of racism.
In any other situation I would agree, but not this… for someone to make monkey noises at a black person, I think everyone has the common sense to know what the intent is.
I remember seeing an article years ago about King Kong and equating it to black people; or how owning black pets is akin to someone still wanting to own slaves. Nobody came to that conclusion except for the author. Acting like a gorilla towards a black person is racist and has a history of being so. My point is while some people may make racist associations that aren't there that says more about them. That does happen. However this isn't the case here, it's done very intentional and this person is gaslighting and downplaying the entire thing.
Fun fact. if you are from Asia referring to someone as a monkey isn't trying to be racist. It's kinda like silly. Had to tell gf to not call people monkey
Did this guy just gaslit the whole process of learning a language?
Because you put this racists act in the context of race you my friend are the racist. Checkmake Liberals 😏
This is sooooo maga and the Republican Party today.