Liberals hear monkey and automatically think of black people

Hello A:

Actually it's right wingers who automatically think of black people when they hear the word monkey.. That's by design, of course. WHY do you think right wingers use it??

If black people are seen as more like apes than human beings then it is no coincidence that police officers who have used lethal force against unarmed black citizens often deploy a type of racist logic in which the black victims were perceived as "giants" or understood to possess superhuman strength or to be impervious to bullets.

A cultural logic that dehumanizes nonwhites, especially black people, also helps to explain a panoply of negative outcomes along the color line in American society. This includes seemingly unrelated phenomena such as health disparities and environmental racism. Mass incarceration is also an outgrowth of the way the white racial frame tends to dehumanize black people.

This process of dehumanization helps to explain the horrific tragedy in Puerto Rico where it is estimated that 5,000 people -- most of them black or brown --died because of the feeble response to Hurricane Maria by Donald Trump and his administration.

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