In 2018, Roseanne Barr tweeted "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj" Comparing "vj" (Valerie Jarret) to Planet of the Apes caused a bit of a storm, resulting in a Twitter riot, Barr's popular show being cancelled, and ultimately, Barr was forced to leave Twitter.
It is the height of irony that a lot of the people offended by the tweet don't just believe Jarret looks like an ape, but that she actually is an ape. While there are significant differences of opinion regarding our supposed Evolutionary history, there is near universal agreement among Evolutionists that humans are related to apes in one way or another. I feel like this is a good time to point out that the classical depiction of Evolution tends to go from a dark monkey to an increasingly light-skinned man. Modern artists probably don't think much of that today, but historically speaking, this is very much deliberate. It is perfectly in line with Darwin's own racist views, along with the popular view of the early 20th century.
First, Charles Darwin believed "At some future period the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla." (1).
Much like Darwin, George Hunter believed the Caucasian was the highest race of man. In A Civic Biology, Hunter identified 5 races, and ranked them in what he perceived as the order of superiority: "the Ethiopian or negro type, originating in Africa; the Malay or brown race, from the islands of the Pacific; the American Indian; the Mongolian or yellow race, including the natives of China, Japan and the Eskimos; and finally, the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe
and America". (emphasis mine) (2).
This abominable view is what lead Hunter to defend the practice of eugenics, which he suggested was "not unfair", since we already applied this kind of thing to domestic animals. In his words, "If such people were lower animals, we would probably kill them off to prevent them from spreading." This, again, echoes Darwin's views, as he also wrote "excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed." He lamented progress in health and hygiene practices for allowing those to live whom, in his view, should have died. Anecdotally, I have personally debated one Evolutionist who also believed this.
As you can see, Evolution is deeply rooted in racism. It was invented by racists for racists. Now, I'm not saying all modern Evolutionists are racists, but I do hope I've made this point: If a comedian can offend so many people with a stupid joke, it is only fair that Evolution, which is far more racist, should also be considered highly offensive.
References
1. Darwin, Charles - The Descent of Man, 1871
2. Hunter, George - A Civic Biology, 1914