# Ok, I give up: Why do demonstrations force regime change?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 2, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-do-demonstrations-force-regime-change/569947 "2011-02-02T22:14:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-do-demonstrations-force-regime-change/569947/7 "2011-02-02T22:47:06Z")

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:eek: To be honest, though, the OP’s gorilla metaphor didn’t ring any bells for me about the old racist “Africans = apes” talk until **KneadToKnow** brought it up.

However, now that it **has** been mentioned, I can definitely see why this particular metaphor might be better avoided in this particular circumstance.

Still, I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that the OP didn’t deliberately choose it for the sake of those racist connotations. Sometimes a gorilla is just a gorilla.

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