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Originally Posted by Chris
It's not the monkey per se, but what the use of monkey means in each case that makes one offensive but the other not.
Michelle Obama's picture draws on a particularly nasty racial stereotype that suggests black people are less advanced/intelligent because they are more like apes than people. Bush's picture woudn't be understood by anyone to make a statement about white people as a race, it simply suggests Bush is a bit thick.
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And he looks like a chimp.