Not when used the way you did. It's one of those words that's actually normal most of the time but becomes a slur when you use it on certain groups of people
Goes back to the colonial exploitation of Africa and referring to it as "The Dark Continent". Lot of academics "studying" African people's made comparisons to Great Apes, so of course the racists have clung onto that as an oblique slur reference.
The screenshoted poster is essentially saying they'd kill all black people (not humans) to protect their own (white) purity.
I don't think that's what Matt Walsh is talking about tbh. The tweet is from 5/29/16, 1 day after the death of Harambe. This is almost certainly talking about Harmabe
We are apes. And monkeys. And primates too. Since our last common ancestor with the bonobos and chimpanzees was an ape, that makes us also an ape. There's literally no reason outside of our ego for us not to be categorized as an ape
This is true! In fact, the narrowest monophyletic clade that includes all fish is the vertebrates. This means that anyone with a backbone can admit they're a fish. ;)
Ah ok, I did not realize that "monkey" was just the common name for simian, which is also used alongside anthropoid, which we are all classified under. I thought the word just discribed those two family branches of monkey.
I'll delete my ny other stuff to avoid confusing others as well
No problem, it changes from language to language. Many languages don't have different words for "simian" and "monkey", and even call apes "human-like monkeys"
American i guess? Humans are not apes but we shared a common ansester a few million years ago. Kinda like saying we are all one-cell organisms because once we were
We are apes! Humans are members of the clade Hominoidea, and the hominoids are also called apes. One step down along the tree, we also belong to the family Hominidae, and the hominids are known as the Great Apes.
Fun fact: humans account for 99.9997% of all apes. Chimpanzees, gorillas, and others represent rare descendants of a far less successful branch on our evolutionary tree. The typical ape is a human.
Quick correction here, we are in fact apes. My monophyly, the most recent common ancestor of all apes is an ape, as are all their descendants. We share that common ancestor, and as such are part of the superfamily Hominoidea, the apes. We are also part of family Hominidae, the great apes.
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u/RexDoesntKnowAnymore 2d ago
This is very funny, given that humans are apes