OMG! How DARE people have a sense of humor!! Arrest all of them IMMEDIATELY!!! /s
"...as if it were a tail."
Is the writer implying 'monkey' here? What a vivid distortion of reality! Nice try, Peter. False depiction made by the race-baiting author. A-HOLE!
My guess is that the idea was donkey, not monkey. But wow what are these complainers, are they witches who decry the blasphemy to broomsticks?