What would you do if Koko the Gorilla rose from the dead to call you a nigger in sign language?

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Gorilla couldn't even talk, it was just scientists finagling shit and getting her to make signs that only made sense if you fucked with them a bunch.

Also she was obsessed with nipples.

The correct answer is to call the researchers all niggers for doing it.
 
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I'd laugh my ass off, give Koko a fist bump and go about my day knowing today rocks.
 
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Shamefur Dispray said:
Wasn't Koko kind of a hoax? I remember hearing that somewhere
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Yes.
The monke had no grammar (just belted out stream of consciousness words), the researchers were extremely cagey about their methods/records (which is extremely shady, in science you're supposed to offer that stuff upfront), and on many occasions they did things that were obvious bullshit (like claiming Koko made a certain rhyme when the rhyme would have only made sense in spoken English, not sign language, where the equivalent of a rhyme is hand signals looking similar).

A typical Koko "sentence" might be something like:
Hungry hungry me hungry food food hungry food give food give hungry food me food food food food hungry hungry

Get what I mean? It's teaching an animal a trick (animal knows a word is associated with an action or item), but without the grammar it's nothing remotely equivalent to language.
 
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