re: #3 brookly red

Wow, that is pretty bad… IIRC porch monkey was term used for favored slaves, domestic help as opposed to field labor. Kinda an insult with in an insult implying a kind of complacence.

Yep, and by substituting the term manquer (french for “to lack”), they crudely attempt to dress it up as a ‘gotcha, this isn’t really a racist slur’ routine.

Problem is, playing shuffleboard with slurs is still racism. The “how close to the line can i get without crossing it” game is racism. It sets back everyone else who innocently walks too close to the line and rightly wishes that we’d all be less sensitive.

When you have a wound, you don’t keep poking it every five minutes to help it get better. You bandage it and stay the hell away from it so that when you accidentally bump it, you do as little damage as possible.