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?

 

[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"

 

[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.