Originally posted by: Dealer1
Because there is a racist traditional of portraying African-Americans as subhumans--like baboons and apes. If you are unaware of this you are not ignorant, you are willfully ignorant. It is true that Trump is an asshole and deserves to be insulted--but to equate that with a long tradition of denigrating black people with primate memes--is . . . well, ignorant is the the word that comes to mind.
Iggo is stupid, because he's a contrived personality. The person who created that personality knows full well the distinction you're making.
Portraying Trump as a baboon isn't an attack on his race; it's an attack on his intellect, or lack thereof. Portraying the Obamas as apes is an attack on their race, because they're black. That horrid little meme has been around for centuries. It's awful of Trump to disseminate, and awful of our resident Trump-licker to defend.
