Excellent point especially when Lauren Robertson is too ignorant to know the difference between an ape and a monkey. I cannot take her seriously when she lacks basic knowledge like that.
Addressing The Jungle Book, from 1967, Lauren, who is originally from Dunblane said: 'Remember King Louie the orangutan?The student claimed that the Jungle Book character King Louie (pictured above) is racist.
'You probably didn't realise when you watched it age five with all your animal teddies lined up in front of the TV, but there is a hell of a lot of criticism about him being a racist caricature.
'He and the other monkeys are shown to be foolish and criminal, and they literally sing about wanting to be able to make the white man's fire.'
“Man’s red fire”, not white man’s fire
She might want to read Rudyard Kipling. There does not appear to be a King Louie.
Then she might want to actually spend some time in the jungles of India watching the animals interact. I wonder if that’s what Kipling was actually getting at. It seems a rather convoluted ethnic joke if that’s what it was, told at a time when there would have been nothing wrong with telling an ethnic joke.