@mysteryman841,
mysteryman841 wrote:Quote:
“The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state,” said DeSantis to Smith
So tell me, where in that statement is DeSantis calling anyone a monkey?
The name calling is taken to be
implied given the history of the word's use as a pejoriative against black people, and used as a double-entendre.
It was a poor choice of phrase by DeSantis given Smith's race.
Generally, it's assumed that double-entendres with racist connotations are weilded intentionally against groups and members thereof if the expressions contain words that have been used to slur those groups.
In Israel, cartoonist, Avi Katz who is himself Jewish, was fired by the Jerusalem Report for portraying Benjamin Netanahu and his fellow Knesset Members as the pigs in George Orwell's
Animal Farm after they passed their nation-state law because of the implication that he was calling them pigs, an old slur against Jews.
It has nothing to do with left/right politics. Katz's critics are as right-wing as you are.
