Geosurface
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cybrsage would you agree that when a white guy compares Bush to a chimp he's probably not saying he thinks all white people (of which he is one...) are stupid, no better than animals, and undeserving of rights?
I think that's a fairly safe assumption.
Whereas if a white guy compares blacks to chimps or apes, in 2012 it may not be anywhere near assured that he is making such implications... but it is certainly more possible than in the white/white situation. It also evokes a long history of when that was DEFINITELY what white people making those comparisons were doing.
Even today, some, maybe even most, of whites who would make that comparison are at the very least, trying to evoke that...
I think that's a fairly safe assumption.
Whereas if a white guy compares blacks to chimps or apes, in 2012 it may not be anywhere near assured that he is making such implications... but it is certainly more possible than in the white/white situation. It also evokes a long history of when that was DEFINITELY what white people making those comparisons were doing.
Even today, some, maybe even most, of whites who would make that comparison are at the very least, trying to evoke that...