Monkey mascot acceptable in 2021?

[Mr Badger]

Once upon a more innocent time, a cute monkey was a viable image for promoting a product, organisation or company. But due to blatant racist usage (e.g. monkey chants at sporting events) and errors of judgment (e.g. putting a black child in a monkey T shirt for an advertising campaign) has the monkey now gone the way of the Gollywog? Or is there still a place for a cartoon/toy monkey as an acceptable promotional image in polite society?

 

[Lysander]

Monkeys are racist.

 

[FoxEye]

Monkeys are racist.

And transphobic.

 

[Yaayuh!]

Monkeys are cancelled.

 

[dowie]

And transphobic.

And they throw poo.

That alone should rule them out from polite society!

 

[!bluetonic!]

All your points are valid.

Polite society would never deliberately want to offend.

I'd wait to see what Survey Monkey does.

 

[Efour]

Parceł monkey is basically a Nazi hate site these days.

 

[Malevolence]

I tried to make a brew earlier, but when I poured the water over my PG Tips they produced a gas rather than my usual brew.

 

[Jokester]

We should also eradicate them from the wild. Clearly a racist trope that we shouldn’t tolerate anywhere.

 

[Participant]

It's time to start cancelling the cancellers.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

It's time to start cancelling the cancellers.

And the cancelle-ese. Cancancerellese. Canconcancarelleses.

Those types.

 

[SideWinder]

Urgh I would say avoid it. If its something that "may" cause offence, it will.

 

[Mr Badger]

All your points are valid.

Polite society would never deliberately want to offend.

I'd wait to see what Survey Monkey does.

They have already done it:

"On June 9th, 2021 our company name SurveyMonkey (SVMK Inc.) changed to Momentive"

 

[Deleted User 298457]

My daughter thinks they're called narnas becusee they are also depicted holding a narna.

 

[Mr Badger]

My daughter thinks they're called narnas becusee they are also depicted holding a narna.

I expect you're missing her since she went back to Uni.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

I expect you're missing her since she went back to Uni.

I think I get that joke.

 

[silvagti]

You only have to look at the patriarchal structure of monkey society to understand how toxic and regressive they are.

We should ban images of them being shown in schools as it could negatively influence children.

 

[Jokester]

They have already done it:

"On June 9th, 2021 our company name SurveyMonkey (SVMK Inc.) changed to Momentive"

I would imagine they are looking to diversify their software business, the survey business is still branded SurveyMonkey.

 

[inogen]

Ask the people of Hartlepool.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

I would not or perhaps watch this film.