That's bananas! University of York academics 'cancel' the three wise monkeys after deciding the centuries-old characters are an oppressive racial stereotype

The Daily Mail UK ^ | 21 Jan 2021 | Helena Kelly

[blueplum]

monkey business!

[cgbg]

From now on if you see or hear or speak of any evil—_you_ go to jail!

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

Just wait until they see Planet of the Apes.

[ifinnegan]

They give their own racism away.

[farmguy]

I suggest that if you see race in a picture of animals, you are the racist.

[RummyChick]

one of my favorite mashups is Aint Nobody Got Time for that

even back then I wondered if anyone would say anything about the monkeys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7TmGVxqzjI&ab_channel=MorganReale

[a fool in paradise]

[Richard Axtell]

“the three wise monkeys have been cancelled after academics at the University of York decided they are an oppressive racial stereotype.”

Which race is that old metaphor stereotyping? Monkeys? Or old Academic white, leftist hypocrites? Why not ban everything that came before and be done with it? That would certainly make as much sense as this.

[cockroach_magoo]

Reference to bananas in the title is obviously sexist.

/s

[glasseye]

Someone is saying you can’t use monkeys because ‘they’ think monkeys are racist.
Exactly who is the racist here?

[JennysCool]

We in the West have coddled the disturbed and paranoid for far too long, since the liberals got the mental hospitals shuttered in the ‘70s and ‘80s for “humanitarian” reasons.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

But they represent the DNC so well! That, and of course, the crying baby.

[Lisbon1940]

Hapticity is what you get on an Apple Watch.

[blueplum]

according to the article, the monkey trope originated in Japanese culture. So to find a grievance, they’ve lowered themselves to cancelling buddist divine messengers?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

[jonrick46]

University of York is projecting:

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Evidently they believe some people are monkeys.

Sounds racist.

[SharpRightTurn]

Now monkeys are being canceled. What’s the next life form to be considered racist?

[hanamizu]

I took a picture of what I was told are the original 3 monkeys on a shrine in Nikko, Japan. Apparently it’s actually a bit of a pun in Japanese.

[hanamizu]

Here they are:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Wise_Monkeys,Tosho-gu_Shrine.JPG