Double Standards I Think?

[anotheoldgit]

Last night, on late night LBC radio a certain presenter referred to the President of the United States as that "ORANGE APE who lives in the White House" (obviously the orange refers to his skin tone)

Would he have been allowed to refer to the last President in a similar a way?

I think not, he would have been sacked on the spot and rightly so, so why has there been no outcry over this?

[jno]

the orange may well refer to his hair, the colour of which is under his control.

[naomi24]

Yes, he would certainly have been in trouble if he had spoken similarly about the previous president .... but this is Mr Trump so anything goes.

[jno]

the president's skin tone is also artificial, of course; that of the previous president was not. But I think the reference was to his hair.

You're allowed to criticise the choices people make about their appearance.

[woofgang]

Is he in the "shock jock" genre? They have said and got away with worse than that.

[naomi24]

jno, good try but it doesn't work. Forgetting the reference to colour describing the previous president simply as an ape wouldn't have been acceptable either.

[jno]

nope, because calling a black person an ape is racist, for Africa-related reasons you can work out. The restriction does not apply to people of other colours (not just white), though other colours bring restrictions of their own.

[naomi24]

Handy.

[Zacs-Master]

Groundhog Day.
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1538955.html

[naomi24]

Why don't you post a new thread about something you'd like to talk about, zacs? At least aog is generating conversation ... and that can only be good for the AnswerBank. No?

[Zacs-Master]

Mmm. Ok. But first I’ll check whether it’s been done to death previously.

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

Thanks for airing that again Zacs, 188 answers, controversial to say the least.

[naomi24]

You do that, zacs. I'll watch out for your thread.

[anotheoldgit]

Thanks for that Naomi.

[naomi24]

You're welcome.

[Zacs-Master]

Awww. Bless.

[archibaldy]

Monkey and ape references are slurs towards blacks and not whites.

It is for this reason for instance that it's only black football players that get monkey noises chanted at them and bananas thrown on to the pitch yet this doesn't happen to white players.

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

/// Mmm. Ok. But first I’ll check whether it’s been done to death previously. ///

While you are at it Zacs, please check to see if the Brexit debacle has been "done to death" previously.

[Zacs-Master]

What about the orange ones? Cans of Irnbru?

[naomi24]

//Monkey and ape references are slurs towards blacks and not whites. //

So what does it mean to call a white man an ape? Is that complimentary?

[naomi24]

^That to archibaldy.