Saturday, April 07, 2007
Just Posts from Indy
I'm just getting these posts off of the Paul Watson thread of Indy Media to use them in a future on air verbal attack against those racist white censors.
Eugene
The Makah 06.Apr.2007 13:45
- link
were backed by Japanese businessmen. It was a money-making opportunity, not some "native tradition," although they were digging up old treaty rights in order to kill. Even many Makah did not agree to the whale hunt, and found the other tribe members literally jumping on the dying whale to be disgusting and disrespectful.
Do a little more research into the Makah and the whale hunt. In the end it was innocent animals pitted against greedy business people and "natives." Government agencies were out with guns cocked against the environmentalists and animal activists. The Makah had all the power of the federal government on their side. Regardless, the Makah got to fucking kill their whale, painfully, slowly, and literally dance and jump on her dying body. Yay Makah!
I'm sick and tired of hearing about the native "respect" for animal life. If it ever existed, it does no longer. "Blessing" your Big Mac doesn't mean the animals suffered any less on factory farms. And it doesn't make the abuse you perpetuate right.
And humans are not endangered! Whales are. "Native humans" are still humans, and do all the crap that other humans do to animals. When you kill and abuse in the name of your culture, it's no better than killing and abusing in the name of your religion, or killing and abusing in the name of your species.
The Makah practiced slavery. 06.Apr.2007 15:03
not a speciesist nor a racist link
Are they going to take that up again as one of their "traditional" institutions? Are people here going to support them in that, because, after all, you have to support any cruel and barbaric thing that "native" people decide to do as part of their traditional practices? Or are you only going to support the cruel throwback to the past when it happens to animals?
When a Makah chief died, his slaves were killed and buried along with him. Should they take that up again?
All the throwing around of the word racism. Let's have some consistency please: the MAKAH are racist slaveholders.
Eugene
The Makah 06.Apr.2007 13:45
- link
were backed by Japanese businessmen. It was a money-making opportunity, not some "native tradition," although they were digging up old treaty rights in order to kill. Even many Makah did not agree to the whale hunt, and found the other tribe members literally jumping on the dying whale to be disgusting and disrespectful.
Do a little more research into the Makah and the whale hunt. In the end it was innocent animals pitted against greedy business people and "natives." Government agencies were out with guns cocked against the environmentalists and animal activists. The Makah had all the power of the federal government on their side. Regardless, the Makah got to fucking kill their whale, painfully, slowly, and literally dance and jump on her dying body. Yay Makah!
I'm sick and tired of hearing about the native "respect" for animal life. If it ever existed, it does no longer. "Blessing" your Big Mac doesn't mean the animals suffered any less on factory farms. And it doesn't make the abuse you perpetuate right.
And humans are not endangered! Whales are. "Native humans" are still humans, and do all the crap that other humans do to animals. When you kill and abuse in the name of your culture, it's no better than killing and abusing in the name of your religion, or killing and abusing in the name of your species.
The Makah practiced slavery. 06.Apr.2007 15:03
not a speciesist nor a racist link
Are they going to take that up again as one of their "traditional" institutions? Are people here going to support them in that, because, after all, you have to support any cruel and barbaric thing that "native" people decide to do as part of their traditional practices? Or are you only going to support the cruel throwback to the past when it happens to animals?
When a Makah chief died, his slaves were killed and buried along with him. Should they take that up again?
All the throwing around of the word racism. Let's have some consistency please: the MAKAH are racist slaveholders.
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