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Listen up, worm! Close your fish mouth for a few moments; disengage your reptilian brain; and think with more than 1 cell. (And, please, don’t report me for the BNBR when I was merely naming a few of your evolutionary ancestors.)

Here are some reasons why the Baker post of Prince Archie depicted as a chimp could be seen as racist.

There is one chimp in the picture. That’s crucial.

For instance, imagine a cartoon of some politicians, all drawn as different kinds of dogs. This could be amusing and insightful. The “dog” metaphor can be used to draw out character traits of the humans. Now imagine the same drawing, but this time only one of the politicians is a dog - while the rest are human. That’s clearly an insult directed at one politician by comparing them, and only them, to a dog. In the Baker meme, Prince Archie was being compared to a chimp.

As well as this, we can discuss the history of slavery and racism; how images of chimps were commonly used to belittle and dehumanise black people. Few people would not know of these images - the history is recent. Just google for some images of Obama. Of the ones you see of him as an animal, there will be few lions, I can promise you that.

Humans come from apes; and worms; and fish; and reptiles, and cells. That doesn’t mean those animals can’t be used in an insulting way - they often are. The post in question was meant to be critical, not celebratory, of the birth. The child was the target.

Again, let’s image another cartoon. Pick a politician you think behaves badly. Have them drawn, as their glorious, human self, inside the cage in a zoo. Outside, two apes - visiting the zoo - look on. One of the apes comments: “He looks docile now, but wait until he starts throwing shit!” In this example, the apes are being used to contrast the politician. The joke says: the apes behave better than him. There is nothing racist in this image.

This was not the tone or context of the post showing Prince Archie as a chimp standing between two aristocrats.

Of the picture, Baker said: “In attempting to lampoon privilege & the news cycle I went to a file of goofy pictures & saw the chimp dressed as a Lord and thought, ‘That’s the one!’”

How exactly does this lampoon privilege or the news cycle? The news cycle might be compared to a circus, but “circus” was not the theme of the picture. Perhaps he was trying to say that the prince is destined for a life of privilege he does not deserve, and doesn’t need to prove himself. Possible, I suppose, but in this sense the chimp is being used in a negative way. For that joke to work we have to see the chimp as “less-than-human”.

“Less than human” takes us back to my earlier point. The picture was meant to belittle and - given the racial context - it was seen as historically racist.