vs…?

Apparently there's some specific US cultural history of people calling black people "monkeys" as a racist insult, and so some people from there immediately leap to assume that any use of "monkey" as an insult is that.

You think that’s an American thing only?? Oh boy, I have bad news.

Oh wow.

Following now.

Sheesh.

Ridiculous to claim this is a "US-specific thing" https://www.academia.edu/22669911/Comparing_black_people_to_...