3 wise monkeys - offensive?

And the stupidity just keeps on rolling along, seriously what is racially offensive about the 3 wise monkeys?

FOUR union activists have been banned from office for three years after distributing a leaflet featuring the three wise monkeys.

Public service union Unison took action against its members, including the Greenwich branch's Onay Kasab and Bromley’s Glenn Kelly, after they produced a leaflet showing the three wise monkeys from a Japanese proverb, with the caption "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".

The leaflet criticised the union for a lack of debate at its national conference in 2007, but the four were told by union chiefs some people could find the image racially offensive.

Common sense has left the building folks.

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