saving the bear
Mar. 21st, 2007 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Save Knut!
In all the flurry about the furry, adorable polar cub, many ignore the larger question: Should the "animal rights" activist be put down? Clearly, he has not been reared properly amongst the Germans and is not fitting into his Natural Habitat. He probably doesn't like beer or Fassbinder films or even a good Riesling, for heaven's sake.
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Save the Polar Bear, Save the World!
Date: 2007-03-21 09:37 pm (UTC)How would the activist feel if we expanded this practice to include human children neglected or abandoned by their mothers? I know where I'd like to start.
He probably doesn't like beer or Fassbinder films or even a good Riesling, for heaven's sake.
This describes me?! Maybe I should be put down. Oh wait, I am only a quarter German.
Never mind.
Re: Save the Polar Bear, Save the World!
Date: 2007-03-22 01:45 pm (UTC)Polar bears are solitary creatures to begin with, so perhaps the socialization issue might not be as fraught with difficulty as some think.
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Date: 2007-03-21 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-22 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-21 09:49 pm (UTC)::headdesk:: ::headdesk:: ::headdesk::
I whole heartedly agree - someone should shoot the activist
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Date: 2007-03-22 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-23 03:59 pm (UTC)"if u luv bares & use that as excuze 2 say kill da bares cuz they dont be pure to whut bares shood b, then no1 will take u seriously."
That said, save Knut! Nothing that adorable deserves to die.
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Date: 2007-03-23 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-21 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-22 01:54 pm (UTC)Are you sure you and Annie won't get too competitive about the photo thing? You are a photographer in your own right as well! We don't want Knut to be stressed out; he might eat you both.
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Date: 2007-03-23 11:37 am (UTC)i dont think there will be too much competition between me and annie! if the worst comes to the worst, i'll smear her with bear food.
i read more about that bear stuff and apparently the animal rights guy didnt want the bear killed at all - it was just one of germany-s crummy papers that reported it that way for a good story. he was actually saying that they killed a baby sloth (?) for the same reasons in leipzig and why would they save this bear and not that one. but all the papers have copied it now. poor guy!
Oh Shoot!
Date: 2007-03-21 11:10 pm (UTC)Re: Oh Shoot!
Date: 2007-03-22 02:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-21 11:36 pm (UTC)Al Gore would not approve.
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Date: 2007-03-22 01:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-21 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-22 01:56 pm (UTC)Oh mummy, can I have an Australian? Please? I promise to feed it lots of vegemite and cheap beer and it shall its own litter box!
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Date: 2007-03-23 02:25 am (UTC)we should embrace the bear!
Date: 2007-03-22 01:47 am (UTC)Clearly, the activist has gone bonkers from years of wearing plastic shoes and ployester blend sweaters.
Yes, have him put down, immediately. I suggest we leave him on an ice floe, but do it quickly, since rumour has it that Antarctica is going to be the hot spot for Spring Break, 2008.
Regards--
Ursus Major
Re: we should embrace the bear!
Date: 2007-03-22 02:02 pm (UTC)Oh sweetie...you're right, it always comes down to fashion. If he had a Lacroix mindset, he would be such a different person.
Re: we should embrace the bear!
Date: 2007-03-23 03:16 am (UTC)"Spit-up... this is Lacroix, sweetie dahling!"
:)
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Date: 2007-03-22 01:55 pm (UTC)(Bow to the greatness that is Bugs and Daffy)
Seriously, extremists of this sort lose all perspective. This is a living creature that will have a good quality of life. Snuffing it's life is just backwards thinking.
Cocksuckers!!!
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Date: 2007-03-22 02:07 pm (UTC)Haahahaha! I loved that one, too.
It is extremist thinking, and I'm glad that most people aren't swayed by it. All we are saaaaaying...is give Knut a chance! [/john&yoko]
get knut PR,PR!!!!
Date: 2007-03-22 03:08 pm (UTC)Re: get knut PR,PR!!!!
Date: 2007-03-22 06:21 pm (UTC)Lulu is aging rather well, I must say.
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Date: 2007-03-22 03:17 pm (UTC)Frank Albrecht, the activist, is an opportunistic bastard who is using this poor creature to further his "animal rights" platform. I cannot think of a more despicable, hypocritical, STOOPID, selfish, narcissistic, megalomaniac thing to do. In his deluded brain, Albrecht believes that the greater "good"--- of promoting understanding among all of us plebeians who might alter an animal's natural habitat to keep the animal alive-- out weights the evil of destroying 1 creature.
All for a public relations campaign... what a waste.
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Date: 2007-03-22 06:31 pm (UTC)A more realistic approach would help: How can we help animals survive in a changing habitat? We've done some irreversible damage to the environment--maybe we can make it better but it will take time, and if we can't, we need to focus on ways we can all adapt to the changes.
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Date: 2007-03-22 06:55 pm (UTC)I appreciate your point of view and as my comment indicated, I think his tactics are reprehensible. But the question with regard to a good or bad PR stunt remains: would any of us even noticed a campaign that leads with... How can we help animals survive in a changing habitat (?)
I am not sure that lead would have made the blogs like Frank Albrecht and poor cute Knut did. No matter how awful the whole thing sounds, we are all more "aware" of his stance on animals' natural habitats.
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Date: 2007-03-22 07:01 pm (UTC)Albrecht succeeded in doing exactly what he really wanted, (which was not really to destroy an animal), but to get people talking about respect for animals' natural habits. So, I not sure, after some thought, his was a bad PR campaign. By talking about it, pondering it, commenting, etc... I am actually doing exactly what the jackass wants.
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Date: 2007-03-22 09:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-23 05:32 pm (UTC)I would like to think Knut's existence rather than his loss would contribute more to promoting change
Yes! of course, I agree - I would hope any sane person would! But isn't this sort of like any other extreme of any other issue? The people on the extremes moving the issue forward are the people who are absolutely nuts. Yet, they get centrists' collective attention because we are so SHOCKED by their absurd proposals that we are like, "wait a minute... kill the bear? You're certifiably nuts!" Like guns-- the NRA is BONKERS! Their platform will allow not one concession, at all. They say stoopid stuff that they don't believe: "I see no difference between an AK-47 and a sporting rifle... no difference at all." IDIOTS!
Anyway, Knut (that darling bear, my gosh, he is just so cute I can't stand it) There is no way that a man who sings Elvis songs to the cub is going to allow this nutcase to kill him...
...A keeper moved in to Knut's cage to care for him around the clock. The keeper, Thomas Doerflein, even plays him Elvis Presley ballads on his guitar, saying he has a penchant for You're the Devil in Disguise.
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Date: 2007-03-23 08:13 pm (UTC)Sure, we (well, you) would be coherent for a while until we (well, me) would get all blubbery and girly about Knut. "OMG, he so cute! I LOVE HIM!"
I have faith in Knut's human buddies. Behold the power of Elvis! We're caught in a trap / I can't walk out / Because I love you too much, baby...