"Senator denies remark was racist"

Article here.

I suppose next he'll teach us all how to square a circle.

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I just read the article. Wow...Wow, that guy deserves whatevers coming to him. How can you expect to get away with that in this day and age?

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
It's a bit of a stretch for me to believe that a senator would be able to name any genus of monkey, much less use one instead of many more serviceable ethnic slurs.

Even assuming he didn't know he was using the name of a monkey, it's still a racist comment.

Akin to making up an "italian sounding" or "jewish sounding" name and using it to refer to someone.

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