Woah - have you never heard the phrase "pay peanuts, get monkeys"? Have you not heard of webmonkey.com which uses the very slightly derogatory term in a self-deprecating way? It's a little sinister to bring race into this at all - I don't think anyone else went remotely near that connotation until you brought it up.
> have you never heard the phrase "pay peanuts, get monkeys"?
No. I'm familiar with the idiom of "peanuts" meaning little money, monkeys have never been mentioned. In the modern American cultural context, monkeys are associated with bananas. Peanuts are associated with elephants.
> Have you not heard of webmonkey.com which uses the very slightly derogatory term in a self-deprecating way?
I don't care what people call themselves, nor do I care what members of a community call one another in jest. I care what people call others as an insult.
