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What Harambe the gorilla tells us about our culture
liveactionnews.org ^ | may 30, 2016 | Kristi Burton Brown

Posted on 06/01/2016 7:02:14 AM PDT by Morgana

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1 posted on 06/01/2016 7:02:14 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

How many dead in Chicago over the Holiday weekend?

No one cares.


2 posted on 06/01/2016 7:04:21 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Morgana
No, as a collective we clearly put a much higher value on a human life than any animal's life.

There is a small but very vocal group of people who place an animal's life above a human's, but they are a minority.

3 posted on 06/01/2016 7:05:58 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Was it not something like 60 dead this past weekend? One a 15 year old girl? Then again that’s a Democrat ran town so, “what difference does it make?”. Had it been 60 gorillas we’d be talking about it this same time next year.


4 posted on 06/01/2016 7:07:13 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

What kind of wine goes with gorilla?


5 posted on 06/01/2016 7:11:32 AM PDT by Blogatron (...and the train it won't stop going, no way to slow down.)
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To: Morgana

According to http://heyjackass.com/ 75 were shot, 7 died.

Three times as many shot as in the previous two years, but the number of dead roughly the same.


6 posted on 06/01/2016 7:12:37 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Morgana

I’m sick of this story. A boy was in serious jeopardy of being mortally wounded and the threat, an animal was shot. End of story.


7 posted on 06/01/2016 7:12:54 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Sigh... the gorilla DID NOT MAUL THE BOY nor did it appear that it intended to, up to the point that it died.

It was other elements of the situation that put pressure upon it. The zoo might have been rather embarrassed that critters, of human or otherwise ilk, could so easily get into the gorilla exhibit. Getting the boy from even a friendly gorilla might have taken more time than anyone wanted, given that the boy had suffered a 15 foot fall. (How do you explain “emergency” to a great ape?)

I wish people were no worse than that gorilla, sometimes. We’d have a nicer society. Gorillas may be violent sometimes by instinct — but it takes a human to sin.


8 posted on 06/01/2016 7:13:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Morgana

Co-worker said she saw on FB (wouldn’t know as I’m not on it) that someone posted “I think silverback gorillas are endangered and kids aren’t. They should’ve shot the kid.”


9 posted on 06/01/2016 7:13:38 AM PDT by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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There is a small but very vocal group of people who place an animal's life above a human's, but they are a minority.

Yes, but the media agrees with them so this story goes on and on and on.

10 posted on 06/01/2016 7:13:42 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Blogatron

Coconut of course


11 posted on 06/01/2016 7:13:52 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Morgana
Final Memorial Day weekend tally for Chicago:
7 dead, 68 wounded.

#BLM... The most sardonic hashtag, EVAH!

12 posted on 06/01/2016 7:14:58 AM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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To: Morgana

Society murdered Socrates.
The primate has great company.


13 posted on 06/01/2016 7:16:46 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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14 posted on 06/01/2016 7:17:02 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: Yo-Yo

(How do you explain “emergency” to a great ape?)

Actually there could have been a move for that. Send in a woman zookeeper to take the boy, which Harambe well could have just handed over to her. Covered under the sniper, of course, in case the gorilla DID get violent. But there would have been a chance to save the gorilla. And it would prove that gorillas care not a whit for the modern madness known as gender neutrality.


15 posted on 06/01/2016 7:21:29 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Morgana

millions of babies murdered. Who cares?


16 posted on 06/01/2016 7:25:31 AM PDT by WENDLE (RICO!!!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Sigh... the gorilla DID NOT MAUL THE BOY nor did it appear that it intended to, up to the point that it died.

Grabbing the boy by the foot and rapidly dragging him 20 feet through the water doesn't count?

17 posted on 06/01/2016 7:25:41 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Morgana

This event didn’t deserve the wall-to-wall 24/7 news coverage that it got. The only reason for the coverage was to divide people into warring groups.
The animal rights crowd against the humans. The people who think the mother is guilty of gross negligence and is to blame for the whole incident. The groups that think the zoo is responsible for not building better fences and want to sue it.


18 posted on 06/01/2016 7:28:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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“Covered under the sniper, of course,”

______________________________________________

The Friday Silliness Thread started earlier this week.

If you are serious, I feel sorry for you.


19 posted on 06/01/2016 7:30:14 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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Don’t worry, before they sent him to the big crematorium in the sky, they took whatever sperm they could. I’m sure they have a fridge full of his sperm. That’s what zoos are about.....M O N E Y......big bucks.


20 posted on 06/01/2016 7:30:21 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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