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[Old News] UK University removed three wise monkeys from their website because they saw them as racist. (archive.is)

posted 3 years ago by UnsubtleAardvark 3 years ago by UnsubtleAardvark +39 / -1

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– Steampunk_Moustache 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0

I have never, ever, looked at the three monkeys trope and thought to myself "black people".

If your first thought when seeing a monkey is "black person", you're the one who's racist.

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– krzyzowiec 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

It’s funny how they expose their own thinking like that.

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