But it won't be seen as racists when white people are compared to monkeys. There is not a history of people claiming that white people are a lesser rung on the evolutionary ladder, in fact, quite the opposite.
It was the argument of the Nazis that white people represented the current pinnacle of evolutionary development.
We do not need to give oxygen to former Nazi beliefs.
So in a general sense, based on what Dame Goodall has done, and the Atlantic has published, it is fine to compare the behavioral characteristics of human beings to the behavioral characteristics of primates.
The argument that "because someone else did something wrong, I too have a right to do something wrong", is a fallacy. Especially when the consequences of doing such a thing are quite different.
Again, my argument is that first, it is immoral to do this. Second it does not benefit the cause to do this. Third, it can be used as evidence to benefit the Liberal cause.
It is shooting ourselves in the foot to use this sort of Rhetoric.
I urge you to read the article in the Atlantic, and see if they aren't doing the exact kind of analysis which has appeared in numerous racist articles over the years. Here are a few quotes:
How best to prepare for debating Trump? “I’d start by thinking of him as a monkey with a machine gun.”
“In many ways the performances of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals,” Jane Goodall, the anthropologist, told me shortly before Trump won the GOP nomination. “In order to impress rivals, males seeking to rise in the dominance hierarchy perform spectacular displays: stamping, slapping the ground, dragging branches, throwing rocks. The more vigorous and imaginative the display, the faster the individual is likely to rise in the hierarchy, and the longer he is likely to maintain that position.”
In the context of what the Atlantic is publishing it is certainly acceptable to apply their same analysis style and method to other individuals.