DUmmies tell Africans how to live in Africa.

[thundley4]

philosslayer (972 posts) Wed Aug 5, 2015, 04:22 PM

In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions

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.

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”?

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html_r=1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027045764

WestCoastLib (255 posts)
2. The economic realities of 2nd and 3rd world countries doesn't lessen the importance of conservation

There are interesting discussions to be had about the fact that environmental concerns are a relative luxury that those of us in wealthy countries can worry about, while impoverished populations don't.

However, none of those interesting discussions lessen the importance of conserving our environment.

Whether they do, or not, all members of the human species should cry for our planet and for the destruction of our environment.

KittyWampus (49,485 posts)
21. This article shows just how eager some are to portray Americans as "ignorant".

Cecil was on a nature preserve and lured off it.

So he was a threat to NOBODY.

If he could be lured off with bait, then hunger could have driven him off, too.

Star Member MoonRiver (21,983 posts)
5. Stop encroaching on the lions' territory.

They won't hurt you then. Sorry, but lions deserve as much support and protections as humans.

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why do americans care more for African animals than African people?

the decades of genocide, rape, war, murder, poverty, starvation, drought, exploitation, disease, corruption do not compare to a trophy hunting

if you use a device that uses the mineral coltran (play station 2 for example), or buy diamonds, chances are you contribute to the man-made problems in Africa

LanternWaste (22,000 posts)
23. Yet many people reject the premise that Americans care more for X than Y

Yet many people reject the premise that Americans care more for X than Y. Lacking any objective review, it's at best, an allegation predicated on myopia and bias.

****ing liberals care more about one lion being killed than hundred of blacks killing each other in your liberal controlled cities. You care more about that lion than millions of unborn babies being killed for profit.

boomer55 (295 posts)
36. human overpopulation is the elephant in the room for so many of our worlds problems

****ing kill yourself, then.

[Ptarmigan]

Than go to Africa if you are so riled up.

[JohnnyReb]

Go pet the lions, DUmmies.

[jukin]

If black people knew how to run a successful and prosperous enterprise, from countries down to cities, wouldn't they have already done that in all of human history?

Even when white people leave a functioning infrastructure blacks go to third world squalor, their natural bell curve position,  in less than 15 years. For example I give you Hiroshima versus Detroit. This is not racist. This is a fact checked realist view of black history. Hell even black people know better than to immigrate to black controlled areas http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/07/_5_places_black_people_can_move_to_when_they_ve_had_enough_of_america.html.

[delilahmused]

KittyWampus (49,485 posts)
21. This article shows just how eager some are to portray Americans as "ignorant".

Cecil was on a nature preserve and lured off it.

So he was a threat to NOBODY.

Yeah, cuz it's totally impossible Cecil to just amble out of the preserve and have a nice, young Zimbabwean child for breakfast. But, hey, maybe he'll be thoughtful enough to save some of that tissue to send to PP. Seriously, how DARE they? They have absolutely no idea what these people deal with. I thought these people, living a natural, primitive life without most earth destroying conveniences were examples of how we should all be living. Any of you assholes that think you know better than someone who spend their life there surrounded by prey that can and has killed your friends and family, buy all means, go over there and show them the error of their ways. Show them how wonderful those sweet kitties are.

Cindie

[Big Dog]

boomer55 (295 posts)

36. human overpopulation is the elephant in the room for so many of our worlds problems

Saying "elephant in the room" is a microaggression.

[landofconfusion80]

Saying "elephant in the room" is a microaggression.

why are they so racist against elephants?

[67 Rover]

Star Member MoonRiver (21,983 posts)
5. Stop encroaching on the lions' territory.

They won't hurt you then. Sorry, but lions deserve as much support and protections as humans.

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Unless of course it's a baby in a liberal mothers womb then meh not so much. 

[Rebel]

If black people knew how to run a successful and prosperous enterprise, from countries down to cities, wouldn't they have already done that in all of human history?

Even when white people leave a functioning infrastructure blacks go to third world squalor, their natural bell curve position,  in less than 15 years. For example I give you Hiroshima versus Detroit. This is not racist. This is a fact checked realist view of black history. Hell even black people know better than to immigrate to black controlled areas http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/07/_5_places_black_people_can_move_to_when_they_ve_had_enough_of_america.html.

That happens over and over and over and over. Hell, it happens here. See Detroit. Zimbabwe used to be the bread basket of Africa. That is until Mugabe came to power, kicked out all the white people, and gave out the land to his cronies. Now they can't even feed themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugabe_and_the_White_African

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Zimbabwe

Before 2000 land-owning farmers had large tracts of land and used economies of scale to raise capital, borrow money when necessary, and purchase modern mechanised farm equipment to increase productivity on their land. As the primary beneficiaries of the land reform were members of the Government and their families, despite the fact that most had no experience in running a farm, the drop in total farm output has been tremendous and has even produced starvation and famine, according to aid agencies.[39] Export crops have suffered tremendously in this period. Whereas Zimbabwe was the world's 6th largest producer of tobacco in 2001,[40] in 2005 it produced less than 1/3 the amount produced in 2000,[41] which is the lowest amount in 50 years. Zimbabwe was once so rich in agricultural produce that it was dubbed the "bread basket" of Southern Africa, while it is now struggling to feed its own population.[42] About 45 percent of the population is now considered malnourished.

Look at South Africa. It was an industrialized nation. It's also now reverted back to being a shithole.

[SVPete]

Who were/are the worse oppressors?

* European colonialists who, in "exploiting" colonies left behind a unifying language and industries with trained workers?

* Western Enviro-Progs who prevent development and shut down profitable parts of former colonies' economies?

* Indigenous tin-pot despots who squash their countries' economies and kill/oppress/starve their people through their version of a particular European political philosophy that has never worked anywhere it's been tried, Marxist Socialism?

[FiddyBeowulf]

boomer55 (295 posts)
36. human overpopulation is the elephant in the room for so many of our worlds problems

I thought Mugabe killed that elephant at his birthday party...and maybe a lion.   

[thundley4]

* Western Enviro-Progs who prevent development and shut down profitable parts of former colonies' economies?

Include in there that bitch that wrote Silent Spring who caused millions of unnecessary deaths by malaria.

[GOBUCKS]

The only person at the DUmp qualified to teach blacks how to live is the addled grasswipe Judy Smith.

She's been serving well in that role, while living in a town with 0.5% black population.

I wonder why DUmmy grasswipe avoids black folks.

[Ptarmigan]

DUmmies/Leftists are the most self-righteous people I have ever seen outside of Jihadists.

[SVPete]

Include in there that bitch that wrote Silent Spring who caused millions of unnecessary deaths by malaria.

Excellent point and H-5 given. Rachel Carson and the USSC judges in the Roe vs. Wade majority will soon become the worst mass-murderers in history (in sheer numbers; in proportion of a nation's population Pol Pot and Kim II & III are the worst), surpassing Mao.

[docstew]

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Unless of course it's a baby in a liberal mothers womb then meh not so much. 

I'm fairly sure that if someone posted undercover videos talking about selling organs/parts of lions, Libs would be in an uproar. IJS...

[obumazombie]

boomer55 (295 posts)
36. human overpopulation is the elephant in the room for so many of our worlds problems

Saying "elephant in the room" is a microaggression.

boomer is so proud of himself as he congratulates himself and pats himself on the back convinced he has had a liberal original thought...

George Bernard Shaw,
“ I don’t want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill
…I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board just as he might come before the income tax commissioner and say every 5 years or every 7 years…just put them there and say , ‘Sir or madam will you be kind enough to justify your existence
…if you’re not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little bit more then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive.
Because your life does not benefit us and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.’

Shaw wrote, “ I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly.
In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.”

Interviewed on Germany Shaw declared:
“Germany’s contention of ‘race pollution’ was ‘despicably unscientific.'”
But he said he “appreciated” Hitler’s political sagacity and the courage with which he has rescued Germany from the gutter,, and placed her once more at the head of Central Europe.”
( SOURCE: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Approaches His 82d Birthday Anemic But Still Vociferously Aware of His OwnJJnique. Significance, Galveston Daily News: 7/24/1938)

It is important to note that George Bernard Shaw was a Eugenicist who supported Planned Parenthood Founder, and eugenicist Margaret Sanger and others in the eugenics movement.

What many people do not know is that Shaw was a contributor to Planned Parenthood Founder, Margaret Sanger’s “Birth Control Review”.

Shaw endorsed Sanger, Birth Control, and EUGENICS..

In the June 1929 Birth Control Review, George Bernard Shaw supports Sanger’s efforts to promote birth control when he, ” We are up against an overpopulation problem created by Capitalism
…Socialists say quite truly that Socialism can get rid of it
…But it cannot wait for Socialism…”

In Margaret Sanger’s Autobiography, Sanger writes,
” Jane had lnvited literary luminaries and their wives George Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, Sir Arbuthnot Lane, Professor E W MacBride of the Eugenics Education Society, Walter Salter of the League of Nations, and Lord Buckmaster.

“It had been my experience that personages gave little of themselves on formal occasions So many people expected these lions to roar bravely, forgetting that they preferred to save their sparkling sallies for the pages of their books.”

boomer should read a little Shaw before he breaks his arm patting himself on the back.

I must confess that at one time during my youth, I looked up to Shaw as a literary figure.


full article...


https://saynsumthn.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/george-bernard-shaw-hitler-and-margaret-sanger/

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

n2doc (38,988 posts)

26. Zimbabwe's human population has increased 5x since 1950

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Zimbabwe

Perhaps less breeding would lead to better living all around.

Is this a post claiming things would be better that if 80% of the Zimbabwean population were gone things would be better?

MoonRiver (21,991 posts)

35. Well said!

The most dangerous and destructive animal on earth is human.

So make the world safer and off yourself.

BlueStater (3,678 posts)

37. What is the point of this article?

So because lions act on their natural instincts as predators and kill other animals, including occasionally human beings, we should be happy that some rich asshole dentist killed a lion for no reason other than his own masculinity issues?

I also love how the writer pulls that usual bullshit of guilting people by making it seem like they care more about animals than human beings, as if it's impossible for the human brain to feel compassion and concern for more than one thing at a time. What crap.

But humans acting naturally is bad...

...unless they're born as fags/Proglodytes, in which case they're superior to everyone else.

[SVPete]

These DU folk need to become members of this group. If those DU-folk lead by example, a one year membership should suffice.

[Karin]

Star Member MoonRiver (21,983 posts)
5. Stop encroaching on the lions' territory.

They won't hurt you then.

Yes!  Go with that, Moonbat. 

Remember that woman who got into a pen with a polar bear, because, well, squee?  I fully expect the same thing to happen with a lion. 

[SVPete]

Star Member MoonRiver (21,983 posts)
5. Stop encroaching on the lions' territory.

They won't hurt you then.

Yes!  Go with that, Moonbat. 

Remember that woman who got into a pen with a polar bear, because, well, squee?  I fully expect the same thing to happen with a lion.

"Lions' territory"? What a moronic, not-in-the-real-world, flip remark. Ask California trail runners about mountain lions' (protected by state law!) and coyotes' territories! Signs warning of both are common, even in suburban areas inhabited by humans - been on the trails, seen the warning signs!