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2025-01-27 00:25 UTC
@rouxdoo @pronoiac heh, there is some formal irony there
I would be curious to know the answer, and if I wasn’t on the way out the door I’d do a little digging; seems like it should be doable to at least search up a little evidence for the notional etymology, however well-vetted it is in practice
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@pronoiac@mefi.social 2025-01-27 00:40
@joshmillard @rouxdoo looks like it's Polish, nothing about offensiveness https://www.nasiprzodkowie.com/blog/not-my-monkey-not-my-circus/ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/not_my_circus,_not_my_monkeys It might be that someone's parsing monkeys as people, not issues