Me personally, no. But no less an expert on primate behavior than Jane Goodall thinks it is appropriate to compare behavioral traits of chimpanzees to those of humans, at least in the case of Donald Trump. And the liberal editors of the Atlantic had no problem publishing it. 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.
Not that I agree with it, but in terms of where elite liberal societal values are today, that comparison is apparently now acceptable.
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.