Posted on 01/29/2021 5:08:15 AM PST by Altura Ct.
This is animal advocate abuse.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals demanded this week that people stop using “speciesist” terms such as “chicken,” “pig” or “rat” as insults for humans — and promptly got ripped as dodos for the stunt.
The PETA tweet was so widely mocked online that it soon boasted an embarrassing ratio of almost 11,000 comments to just over 3,000 likes as of Thursday morning.
“Calling someone an animal as an insult reinforces the myth that humans are superior to other animals & justified in violating them,” the animal-rights advocacy group said in its earnest call to action. “Stand up for justice by rejecting supremacist language.”
PETA social-media reps also included a chart detailing the human “supremacist” terminology and suggesting alternative language such as using “coward” instead of “chicken,” “snitch” in lieu of “rat,” “jerk” rather than “snake,” “repulsive” rather than “pig” and “lazy” to cast aspersions onto someone with sloth-like tendencies.
Needless to say, the majority of commenters deemed the directive a bit cuckoo.
“Congratulations on the stupidest tweet of 2021 and it’s only been 4 weeks,” scoffed one detractor of the batty tweet. “A true achievement.”
“I can’t tell if this is real or you guys are making fun of yourselves,” wrote another.
One catty commenter posted a graphic that read, “Instead of ‘PETA’ say ‘trash.’ ”
Even staunch vegans found PETA’s tweet difficult to digest.
“This is my 7th year of being vegan and I am begging u to never tweet again,” wrote one aghast herbivore.
Another correctly pointed out that sloths were named after the term for laziness and not the other way around.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/peta-trolled-for-denouncing-animal-insults-like-chicken-or-pig/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter#
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Read the title and thought it was The Bee.
How about Swamp scum? Is that still okay?
Hey PETA,
Don’t be a Jackass!
Now with the Biden Regime us poor American will learn to Wok our Dog’s.
What a jackass.
Beat me by 30 seconds. 8~)
It’s rather chicken of them to say something so piggish.
I’d say.
How about The Rats? Us that okay?
What an asylum of loons...
How bout communist pig?
A turkey of a plan.
PETA...bunch of Cuckoo birds.
PETA, bunch of Pony Soldiers.
PETA are acting like BULLies.
The Left and their utterly idiot ways of thinking and warping and twisting of sh*t!
I would like to sincerely thank them for making flat-earthers look more credible with each passing day.........
So then? If I call the person who came up with this idea a jackass that would be a violation of the peta rule?
LOL
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