Michaëlle's blood-thirsty ways

[frandroid]

As a culturally sensitive vegan, I would approve of Michaëlle Jean's seal eating and hunting, if only she wasn't conflating inuit seal hunting with east coast seal hunting... So not the same thing.

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[compasspoints.livejournal.com]

totally. agreed.

[(Anonymous)]

vegan? does that mean you don't go down on other girls? no worries. as long as ur fit and liek doggy!

[culpster.livejournal.com]

Gotta love those anonymous comments!

Also, now she can talk about how down-with-the-common-Inuit she is cause she ate a seal heart. Unconvincing. It's like Harper (or worse, Ignatieff) wearing a hockey sweater. A trophy hunter with an entourage.

That said, and speaking of cultural sensitivity, I think 'neanderthal' might have been a bit, er, ill-considered as an outraged epithet in this context. (I think it was PETA but I forget)

[theoria.livejournal.com]

As a vegan, I'm not sure how you can separate the two. Why is Inuit ("traditional") hunting acceptable, but not commercial hunting? This is the most repulsive sort of liberal, culturalist, relativism: something cannot be question because it is part of a culture? Fuck that. Rape is part of Afghani culture (and now legal!), should we withhold criticism? On what grounds do we criticize Afghans for their cultural practices but give Inuit a free ride?

They are very much the same thing: animals being slaughtered to satisfy human wants that could be satisfied in other ways. Capitalist, socialist or subsistence, it is still wrong and it should still be opposed.

[everynewmorning.livejournal.com]

cultural sensitivity is for fags and hippies. i eat raw seal hearts for the yums.