No he's stupid enough to call black folks monkeys. They pulled him straight from the fifties. This is sooo stupid
Now my question to all these 45 supporter if that home owner would have taken matters into there own hands they would be called racist and black animals or thugs.
Monkeyed around is an actual term. Monkey up is not. But you are succeeding in killing this topic, because this is like arguing with a drunk. Tiresome.
This contest went racist the moment Gillum won the nomination. If Gillum was Asian, media outlets would not have ignorant news headline of "could be the first Asian Gov of Fl". The surprise is that Gillum, the progressive, won. Not Gillum, the black man. This racial nonsense does not win elections. It really does the opposite.
If Gillum was Asian, the DeSantis would be talking about "the chink in his armor" on Fox News instead.
I wouldn't say monkey around is the same as what he is going with. That is more goofing off than messing up. A person might say something more like "Don't monkey with a good thing." Monkey meaning tinker. Or "Throw a Monkey Wrench." This is similar to Bob McNair's inmates comment last year. I'm assuming he's just mucking up (similarity intended) a saying, but it doesn't look good when you know the people you are talking about are Black. It wasn't necessarily racist, and certainly not something they intended to be racist, but perhaps an unintentional Freudian slip.
Was meant as a racist comment, too many old racists in Florida, let's hope all those displaced Puerto Ricans new to Florida kick his ass. DD
Dude, you just rewrote one of my posts in this thread, practically ("muck up", "Freudian slip"). Not that I mentioned Bob McNair. I'd never heard it before now. I Googled it and really nothing relevant came up outside of the recent furor that created this thread. One particular poster on here kept trying to defend its usage, "oh, monkey up", that's what you say when..........hunh? Now, you might get some people furiously trying to legitimize "monkey up" as a popular turn of phrase. Anyway, it doesn't matter much; why do we care anymore?
CF members slandered me a "racist" for citing US Census Bureau data. I identify as a misrepresented data-driven individual for this reason. The new norm: facts are racist, idioms are racist, euphemisms are racists.
There are two ways to look at it 1. He didn’t mean for the term to have the connotation it got in the interview. Just a poor choice of words. 2. He knew what he was doing and can use plausible deniability. His base either won’t care or maybe even more inclined to vote to combat liberal “PCness” or something.
I really wouldn't put it past him to intentionally use the word to create faux outrage. If this was the case, I dont see him as a racist but more so unprofessional and inappropriate, ala Trump. However in politics these days, the only ethics are the ones a candidate can get away with. Regardless, its a big mistake and a detriment to Gillum to make race an issue if there is no significant reason. Fl is too diverse for this nonsense.
maybe it was a poor choice of words.... and then we get this headline, "Florida GOP gubernatorial nominee was admin of racist Facebook group." hey, just because he was an admin until yesterday doesn't mean anything! right??? there are now 2 pieces of circumstantial evidence but in the court of public opinion, there are now 2 pieces of damning racist evidence. this doesn't look good for him, then again, it's Florida. https://thinkprogress.org/florida-g...cist-anti-muslim-facebook-group-6e6d527c6fc2/
Only sorta related I guess... here's what the American Conservative Magazine sees as a defense of donald trump and tucker carlson... essentially calling them not as racist as others...
Considering how much the media made it such a big deal that he could be Fl's first black gov, Im inclined to believe it was the latter. The media brought race into the picture the night he won, DeSantis chummed the water and now he's playing the victim.
