Yes, racists do use monkey as a derogatory term for black people, it’s not debatable. That doesn’t mean DeSantis was referring to Gillum as a monkey.
He, contextually, was talking about the election in regards to electing a socialist. You have to make assumptions, without relevant evidence, in order to accuse him of being a racist.
Correct. None of us can know what he meant. Only DeSantis knows that.
But he did go out of his way to invent the term and appeared to do so deliberately. Whether that means he's "a racist" himself, whether it means he's simply alerting his potential base to appeal for the racist vote, or whether he just wanted attention with a plausible deniability, only he knows and he doesn't have to tell us. But it's at least one of those three. And none of those motivations look good.
Bullshite...........most understand what 'monkey up' means aka....screw up, fuck up etc. As has been pointed out the phrase 'monkey up' was in the dictionaries long before DeSantis used it. I mean who in their lives have never used such a term...it is just a colorful way of saying don't screw up, don't fuck up.
Thus DeSantis did not make up the term as you claim. Are you ever right about anything? Why must I always have to correct you?
Desantis: “The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state.”
He literally is pretending to have never heard the term, "monkey it up" before.
Two days in a row now you actually got something right.
Correct, I have never heard or read "monkey up" before this usage. Apparently nobody else has either, since several of us offered the challenge to find anybody anywhere using the phrase, and got nothing. Y'all have had a week now to come up with one. Zero.
Usually if we get anything back we get "monkey wrench" or "monkey around", neither of which of course are "monkey up", so the dishonesty therein is palpable.
DeSantis invented his own phrase here. Again, that's perfectly valid locution as long as the context explains the meaning, which it does. What stands out is his choice of verb. Not "mess", not "screw", not "foul", not "bugger", any of which would have conveyed the same thing. No, he went out and imported "monkey".
Still having trouble being honest I see............anyhow for your edification....as usual I have to correct you once again...............From the urban dictionary.
TOP DEFINITION
Monkey up
Mess something up. Probably influenced by similar phrases like "monkey around with," "
monkey business," and "
throw a monkey wrench into." Possibly used as a euphemism for "
muck up" by people who consider that already-euphemistic phrase too similar to "fuck up."
The phrase does not have any racial implications, though some have called it a "racist dog-whistle" referring to black people. The dog-whistle metaphor is apt because only a racist who secretly equates monkeys with black people would hear this phrase as having a racial dimension.
"The more you try to do certain things, the more you
monkey it up." (Henry Homeyer, "Notes from the Garden," 2003)
"All I did was monkey it up." (filmmaker Kevin Smith, "My Boring-Ass Life," 2007)
"The last thing we need to do is
monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state." (Congressman Ron
DeSantis, 2018)
A: "I've never heard the phrase 'monkey something up'."
B: "That's funny because it has more than 400,000 Google hits, even excluding the quote from Ron DeSantis."
A: "You're right. My Internet research shows it's disproportionately used on repair-related forums, like 'I'm betting the alignment shop monkeyed it up' and 'You monkeyed it up with the vise jaws.' This supports the association with 'monkey wrench' and further discredits the claim that 'monkey up' is a racial slur."
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EmilyW August 30, 2018