Just Damn Dumb (UPDATED)

Oops. A big honkin' hairy oops at that.

NEW HAVEN — A two-hour animal rights demonstration on the Green Monday sparked outrage instead of sympathy from the public.

"This is the most racist thing I’ve ever seen on the Green. How dare you," roared Philip Goldson, 43, of New Haven at the protest organizers at Church and Chapel streets.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a national animal rights group, posted giant photographs of people, mostly black Americans, being tortured, sold and killed, next to photographs of animals, including cattle and sheep, being tortured, sold and killed.

"I think it is an apt comparison," said Josh Warchol, 26, of Wallingford, president of the Southern Connecticut Vegetarian Society, which is aligned with PETA.

So does that mean I’m practicing a form of cannibalism when I eat a hamburger, Mr. Warchol? (Hey, if you want to evoke one stereotype, you might as well not hold back.)

I think that this humongous misstep is more attributable to blinding stupidity rather than racism, though the two often go hand-in-hand.

Does this fiasco help make the case that pork chops contribute to IQ?

(Thanks to Avery Tooley)

UPDATE: Now featured at your local grocer's freezer: Long Pig just $2.99 a pound!

(Thanks to Uncle Sam's Cabin)

Comments

[Russ]

Does this fiasco help make the case that pork chops contribute to IQ?

They've certainly contributed to mine.

But the applesauce... that's just been a hindrance.

[Yogimus]

Great. Time to go out and buy another kitten...

[Ward Gerlach]

I think it was Napoleon - "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity", or some such.

Those folks are dummies, in addition to not being wrapped too tight.

[Jim C.]

I remember when I first heard of the so-called animal rights movmement around 1990. I heard them compare themselves to the Civil Rights movement and my jaw dropped in utter disbelief. I was further astounded when the news didn't report any objections.

I thought the following quote was interesting.

"Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness." - Sir Robert Grieve Hutchison, address to a session of the British Medical Association, Winnipeg, 1930.

He got the self-righteousness right. But "harmless"? How little he knew.

[John]

Apt comparision of course, for a few lunatics. As a nation we mourn and pay for the things we have done against human beings in the past. But to compare those things to animal cruelty is absurd.

Until scientists prove that dolphins are the smartest beings on the planet (Hitchhiker's reference here), I guess we are stuck with the general theory that we are the top of the food chain. Slower, dumber than us? You get eaten. Oh well, that's LIFE.

[Ben-David]

I don't think pork chops contribute to IQ - but what do I know, I'm Jewish.... ;-)

[charles]

I guess 'insensitive' only comes from the those on the right!? If it comes from the left it is trying to teach us on a higher level!

BTW - I love how the New Haven Register calls the display 'controversial.' I would be willing to bet that they would not use such mild language if it was done by some group that was on the political right.

[Attila Girl]

If you want to know the truth, I think they are trying to create shame in people like me (lily-white), so that I'll know I'm a racist for eating meat.

People like you (black) just don't matter. You're not part of the equation.

In other words, there is a place where stupidity and racism meet, and from the sounds of it, this particular campaign is right at that crossroad.

[baldilocks]

That sounds about right, Attila Girl.

Reading the article, however, it sounds like a couple of the black guys were about to adminster "the black experience" to the PETA twits. Education, so to speak. :-)

[Masked Menace©]

John,
Dolphins (despite the common perception) are not the smartest creatures on the planet. They are in fact number 2.

The mice are the smartest. :-)

[timekeeper]

It's a shame that they did such a poor job of packaging the "flesh" (as per the photo). The packaging does not appear to be airtight.

[Justin]

I think that this humongous misstep is more attributable to blinding stupidity rather than racism, though the two often go hand-in-hand.

Unfortunately many of my white middle class fellow liberal/lefty brothers and sisters have lost (or never had) a sense of perspective as to what injustice really is. If you've never experienced real injustice yourself, it's easy to think that whatever happens to be bothering you is the greatest injustice ever.

Don't get me wrong though, I'm all for treating animals well before they get sent to my supermarket and then onto my grille.

[skinner]

"If youve never experienced injustice { Justin] . " Its easy to think whatever bads happening to you is the greatest injustice
ever" ? I sence ,youre talking from personnel experience? Your'e ,yuppie ,liberal ,RICH freinds are the biggest Phonies Imaginable . You pretend to be so compassionate to the point of worrying about little piggys , But when it comes down to it you dont give a RATS ASS ,as to what
NON =TERRORIST MOSLEMS are experiencing You are ,SELFISH IDIOTS ,and Largely Hippocrits you pretend to Be ,the Big Womens rights defenders but just ,if they live near rosie odonnel or Hillary, or Hanoi Jayne. You pretend to be against racism but in reality you want to keep minorities appeased with more programs , so they stay in theyre places with no self esteem or prospects , Isnt this what caused Russias soceity to wither to weakness? You put on a big talk and a big show , BUT YOU LIBERALS HAVE NO SUBSTANCE , AND YOURE ON YOURE WAY OUT SLOWLY BUT SURELY
GOOD RIDDENCE !!!!!!!