{"id":34808,"date":"2018-08-31T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=34808"},"modified":"2018-09-02T18:24:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T01:24:51","slug":"monkey-racist-unless-youre-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/monkey-racist-unless-youre-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Word &#8220;Monkey&#8221; is Racist, Unless You&#8217;re on the Left (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Left has been going insane over the last week following Rep Ron DeSantis&#8217; comment, after winning GOP primary for governor of FL, about not &#8220;monkeying things up&#8221; with socialist policies his opponent Andrew Gillum is running on.<\/p>\n<p>Because DeSantis supports Pres Trump this &#8220;monkey&#8221; comment was immediately interpreted by the Left as a racist term, because Gillum is Black. The fact that DeSantis complimented Gillum is irrelevant when Leftists are looking for anything to destroy to him since socialist policies do not bode well with Americans. <\/p>\n<p>Of course using &#8220;monkey&#8221; isn&#8217;t considered racist when Leftists use it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i7b4YA5JSsU?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s an entire thread of many elected Leftists using this &#8220;racist&#8221; word too..<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nI\u2019m old enough to remember when the Dems didn\u2019t think \u201cMonkey Around\u201d was racist. <\/p>\n<p>Adam Schiff <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MvmyVFHK4U\">pic.twitter.com\/MvmyVFHK4U<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Rich Weinstein (@phillyrich1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phillyrich1\/status\/1035163611193335808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nBernie Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w6oEx9gT30\">pic.twitter.com\/w6oEx9gT30<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Rich Weinstein (@phillyrich1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phillyrich1\/status\/1035163741955006465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nBill Nelson <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ucEI2y5vna\">pic.twitter.com\/ucEI2y5vna<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Rich Weinstein (@phillyrich1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phillyrich1\/status\/1035163793050005504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nBut wait, there\u2019s more<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Schumer \u201cMonkeying Around\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rlW73e2Qab\">pic.twitter.com\/rlW73e2Qab<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Rich Weinstein (@phillyrich1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phillyrich1\/status\/1035172237744263169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>(<b>Many more<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phillyrich1\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Even author Stephen King called members of Trump&#8217;s cabinet monkeys, which would include Ben Carson who is Black. So this tweet would make King a racist too! We should ban and burn all his books and movies per the rules the Left has established when dealing with racists, right?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nTrump&#8217;s proposed cabinet is the worst in American history: a motley crew of plunder-monkeys.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/807725345713557504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>These people are the real deplorables, over their constant race hustling and fake outrage. They want to make the US into a country where you will need permission to speak on just about anything, using an approved list of words.<br \/>\nWanna stop them? Vote GOP this November otherwise this crap is going to intensify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Left has been going insane over the last week following Rep Ron DeSantis&#8217; comment, after winning GOP primary for governor of FL, about not &#8220;monkeying things up&#8221; with socialist policies his opponent Andrew&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,22230,9987],"tags":[45635,45634,10679,585],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Using-the-Word-22Monkey-is-Racist-Unless-Youre-on-the-Left.png?fit=640%2C321&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34814,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34808\/revisions\/34814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}