Good day all. It looks like the faux outrage of the killing of a lion in Africa is finally starting to die down. The Social Justice Warriors have other faux outrages to be offended about. To conclude the “Life and death of Cecil” I’m going to comment on an opinion piece in the New York Times written by a real African.
The gentleman who wrote the opinion piece is a medical student studying in the United States. He is from a village in Zimbabwe and he is wondering what all the fuss is about. Here is the column written by GOODWELL NZOU in the New York Times:
“Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me.
So sorry about Cecil.
Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe?
Cecil who? I wondered. When I turned on the news and discovered that the messages were about a lion killed by an American dentist, the village boy inside me instinctively cheered: One lion fewer to menace families like mine.”
Finally, someone with common sense who understand that lions are not cute furry pets.
“My excitement was doused when I realized that the lion killer was being painted as the villain. I faced the starkest cultural contradiction I’d experienced during my five years studying in the United States.
Did all those Americans signing petitions understand that lions actually kill people? That all the talk about Cecil being “beloved” or a “local favorite” was media hype? Did Jimmy Kimmel choke up because Cecil was murdered or because he confused him with Simba from “The Lion King”? ”
Congratulations Mr. Nzou, you have just entered, “THE MOONBAT ZONE!”
Moonbats and their moronic offspring, the Social Justice Warriors are people who literally have no common sense at all. They think food appears magically in the supermarket and that all the problems of the world could be solved if everyone sat around, banging bongo drums and singing “Kumbaya.” To continue…
“In my village in Zimbabwe, surrounded by wildlife conservation areas, no lion has ever been beloved, or granted an affectionate nickname. They are objects of terror.”
Please enlighten us as to why you are terrified of these large, cuddly creatures, with big fangs and sharp claws.
“When I was 9 years old, a solitary lion prowled villages near my home. After it killed a few chickens, some goats and finally a cow, we were warned to walk to school in groups and stop playing outside. My sisters no longer went alone to the river to collect water or wash dishes; my mother waited for my father and older brothers, armed with machetes, axes and spears, to escort her into the bush to collect firewood.
A week later, my mother gathered me with nine of my siblings to explain that her uncle had been attacked but escaped with nothing more than an injured leg. The lion sucked the life out of the village: No one socialized by fires at night; no one dared stroll over to a neighbor’s homestead.”
No, this can’t be correct. You must be mistaken. Everyone knows that lions are wonderful creatures.
“When the lion was finally killed, no one cared whether its murderer was a local person or a white trophy hunter, whether it was poached or killed legally. We danced and sang about the vanquishing of the fearsome beast and our escape from serious harm.”
“Recently, a 14-year-old boy in a village not far from mine wasn’t so lucky. Sleeping in his family’s fields, as villagers do to protect crops from the hippos, buffalo and elephants that trample them, he was mauled by a lion and died.”
Obviously, he shouldn’t have been there. Why was he guarding fields? Why did his parents let him go out there? Why don’t they just go to the supermarket to buy organically ground tofu?
“The American tendency to romanticize animals that have been given actual names and to jump onto a hashtag train has turned an ordinary situation — there were 800 lions legally killed over a decade by well-heeled foreigners who shelled out serious money to prove their prowess — into what seems to my Zimbabwean eyes an absurdist circus.”
Well, Mr. Nzou, not all Americans jumped on this bandwagon. It’ was that subset of Americans I previously mentioned. Morons and Moonbats. The majority of Americans really don’t care that Cecil will no longer be down for breakfast, and many, once they know what you and your neighbors have to deal with, are fully in line with your village’s celebrations.
“PETA is calling for the hunter to be hanged. Zimbabwean politicians are accusing the United States of staging Cecil’s killing as a “ploy” to make our country look bad. And Americans who can’t find Zimbabwe on a map are applauding the nation’s demand for the extradition of the dentist, unaware that a baby elephant was reportedly slaughtered for our president’s most recent birthday banquet.”
Oh yes, good old, and I do me old, Ingrid Newkirk. She is nuts. Crazy. Three fries short of a happy meal. Not dealing with a full deck. Two bricks shy of a full load. Let me tell you something about Ingrid Newkirk. She hates humans. She literally would let a child die rather then kill an animal to save that child’s life. Don’t waste any energy paying attention to her screeches. And as for PETA?
“Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.”
“And please, don’t offer me condolences about Cecil unless you’re also willing to offer me condolences for villagers killed or left hungry by his brethren, by political violence, or by hunger.”
I wouldn’t worry to much about the Social Justice Warriors. Regular people have just about had it with them and the SJW’s are starting to see some serious blow back coming their way. Eventually, one or more of these morons is going to try to do something really stupid and end up getting their heads blown off by someone who sees them as a true threat. As for me? Let’s all go on a lion hunting safari. In fact, perhaps Ms. Cargatelli might like to bag a lion.
Thatisall
~The Angry Webmaster~
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