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Gorilla Statue Removed After Complaints It Was ‘Racially Insensitive’
cbslocal.com ^ | 3/1/18 | CBSDFW

Posted on 03/01/2018 9:16:23 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Gorillas are Negroes now?

Who knew? I thought they were apes!


61 posted on 03/01/2018 10:04:08 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Better rent the DVD or stream it while you can before it goes the way of Blazing Saddles or Gone With The Wind.

Or Br'er Rabbit and Uncle Remus.

62 posted on 03/01/2018 10:05:13 AM PST by Don Corleone
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Someone thinks a Blue Gorilla is them ,sounds like someone is Crazy


63 posted on 03/01/2018 10:06:22 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: dragnet2
Maybe they should paint it white and name it “Snowflake”.

I believe Snowflake was an albino gorilla. Here's his pic:


64 posted on 03/01/2018 10:07:46 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Next, they’ll have to ban the color black and the color brown.


65 posted on 03/01/2018 10:11:02 AM PST by adorno
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I would hate to be a black man in today’s US. Monkeys are my favorite zoo animal and I love fried chicken and watermelon. The race warriors are the original snowflakes.


66 posted on 03/01/2018 10:20:13 AM PST by jimmygrace
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Shows you what they think of themselves. The see themselves as monkies apparently. Not a good look.

And the idiot powers that be just go along with whatever these SJW’s “say” is racist (today) and banish it from sight like it never existed.

Gosh I wish I could banish everything that I perceive to offend me! Liberals would cease to be.


67 posted on 03/01/2018 10:22:00 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: adorno

The next time you buy bandaids, look at their color. Even the sheer strips are much darker than they were two years ago. That’s because of complaints to Johnson and Johnson and other bandaid companies.

These bizarre complaints are going to continue and become more bizarre. Minorities and other aggrieved parties know they can get away with outrageous claims because the liberals immediately respond with mea culpas.


68 posted on 03/01/2018 10:22:08 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Follow along here: bananas grown on trees, gorillas climb trees, gorillas often eat bananas.

So the answer to your question is: how could they NOT ban those racist bananas?


69 posted on 03/01/2018 10:24:36 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: smokingfrog

I work for a company that competes against Gorilla glue. Thanks for the great marketing idea.


70 posted on 03/01/2018 10:25:34 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
"“We can understand this, because we have an obligation to listen to all our citizens, to determine what is offensive and not, especially in public places,” said Corsicana Mayor Don Denbow." Well mayor Dumbo here's your hat:


71 posted on 03/01/2018 10:28:06 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Gorillas are now Haram-be!


72 posted on 03/01/2018 10:39:30 AM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: aquila48

Just because some of them act like gorillas, doesn’t really prove anything. Besides, it’s not gorillas, it’s chimpanzees.


73 posted on 03/01/2018 10:55:39 AM PST by matthew fuller (There are 44,498,750 reasons that democrat concern for dead children is so totally hypocritical.)
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To: WayneS; aquila48
Just proves that scholastic and media-driven indoctrination in Darwinism is at the root of much of today's philosophical knee-jerk racism.

Look no further at the origins of such philosophy than the evolutionary philosophizer, himself. Read the full title of Charles Darwin's infamous work:

“On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.” (1859)

Darwin expounds further on what he means some years later:

"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world." At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaffhausen has remarked, (Anthropological Review, April, 1867, p. 236) will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla." (Charles Darwin, 1871, The Descent of Man, Chap. vi)

Or from "Darwin's Bulldog" and then-contemporary mouthpiece, Thomas Huxley:

"No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.....it is simply incredible to think that.....he will be able to compete successfully with his bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried on by thoughts and not by bites."

(Thomas Huxley, 1871, Lay Sermons, addresses and reviews)

Such philosophy is parroted to this day by "esteemed" latter-day atheists and intellectualized racists like the late Harvard U evolutionary apologist, Stephen Jay Gould, PhD.

"Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1850, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory. The litany is familiar: cold, dispassionate, objective, modern science shows us that races can be ranked on a scale of superiority. If this offends Christian morality or a sentimental belief in human unity, so be it; science must be free to proclaim unpleasant truths. But the data were worthless…If the chorus of racist arguments did not follow a constraint of data, it must have reflected social prejudice pure and simple…"

(Stephen Jay Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny, Belknap-Harvard Press, 1977, page 127–128.)

FReegards!

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74 posted on 03/01/2018 10:58:07 AM PST by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: Catmom
People see what’s in their minds.

Not just people.


75 posted on 03/01/2018 11:02:46 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Gorilla Lives Matter!


76 posted on 03/01/2018 11:18:31 AM PST by mouse1
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To: dragnet2

The city has said it could possibly be offensive, that 45 people complained it was offensive, and that it was an out of town artist who complained. It seems they won’t identify who complained about the gorilla statue that had been caged in the park playground for the last 19 years.


77 posted on 03/01/2018 11:22:35 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Hockey pucks look a little too much like lip disks too.


78 posted on 03/01/2018 11:23:09 AM PST by DungeonMaster (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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From Dallas TX 2008

A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.

County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black hole” because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.

Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud “Excuse me!” He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a “white hole.”
That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.


79 posted on 03/01/2018 11:23:30 AM PST by mouse1
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To: Dalberg-Acton

No doubt.


80 posted on 03/01/2018 11:24:48 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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