All Rhodes Lead to Cecil ... Mark Steyn

Steyn Online ^ | 3 Aug 2015 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

I had intended to take the same attitude to Cecil the Lion as every US newspaper takes to Cecile the lyin' Planned Parenthood honcho and her factory outlets of slightly used baby parts. The mawkish sob-sister drivel of the one story versus the utter indifference to the second is too dismal to contemplate. Never mind the inability of the legions of traumatized Americans, in the midst of their tears, even to get the deceased lion's name right (for reasons we'll discuss below), that's no reason not to turn on the most evil dentist since Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man.

After all the complete twaddle in the Anglo-American press about the psycho dentist offing the most beloved lion in Africa, it is somewhat heartening to turn to the comparatively sane coverage in the Zimbabwean media. Kennedy Mavhumashava in The Bulawayo Chronicle:

I find the western outrage over the demise of Cecil, which is only a lion to may of us, suspicious. This was a simple hunt and Zimbabwe wants more of them to generate revenue for our tourism sector.

It is not an overstatement that almost 99.99 percent of Zimbabweans didn't know about this animal until Monday. Now we have just learnt, thanks to the British media, that we had Africa's most famous lion all along, an icon!

...But the Western media's obsession with Cecil gets us thinking. Why only him? What's going on?

[BenLurkin]

Speaking of Cecil Rhodes, anyone with an interest in Cecil Rhodes or the history of South Africa should read this book (if you can find it)

[sauropod]

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[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

He just overflows with cleverness.

[samtheman]

While the western left overflows with vapid stupidity.

[colorado tanker]

What a spectacle. The country is agaga over a lion the Zimbabweans don’t care about but couldn’t give a fig about PP selling dead babies and body parts.

[Twotone]

“Mr Mavhumashava looks at Jimmy Kimmel and the other bleating white ninnies weeping for Cecil and knows neo-colonialism when he smells it:

“Why such an outpouring of grief in the West over one lion..? The name Cecil perhaps, given its historical significance for white monopoly capital in Southern Africa and the West? Many believe the lion was named after Cecil John Rhodes, the celebrated forerunner of British colonialism in Southern Africa, explaining the saturation coverage on the demise of his namesake.”

Mr Mavhumashava gives Americans too much credit. I doubt one in a million thought of who Cecil might be named after, & would never have come up with the historical figure.

[pa_dweller]

As it happens I'm working my way through The Old Way and I've been wanting to read something on the Boers, so it's added to my ever-growing list. Thanks!

[x]

So the lion was named after the imperialist?

A lot of people are going to have to rethink their reaction now.

[Calvin Locke]

Yeah, but Rhodes might have been gay, or more likely, asexual.

As such, he gets the non-hetero card pass as such.