PETA targets merry-go-rounds

[Sojourner]

The animal rights activist organization has urged Kansas-based amusement company Chance Rides to cease production and sales of animal themed rides because it "celebrates exploitation".

"Children learn through play, and teaching them to have respect and compassion for all living, feeling beings can help create a more just and merciful world," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said in a press release.

Advocating for the humane treatment of animals is one thing, but seeing exploitation in a merry-go-round is tilting at windmills.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/peta-targets-kansas-merry-go-round-maker-animal-themed-carousels

[Fenris]

[RabbiKnife]

Amen!

[Sojourner]

People
Eating
Tasty
Animals

[tango]

[Sojourner]

Are you guilty of specieism? Use these verbiage alternatives, and you too can be politically correct:

[Fenris]

And here all along I thought I was a sloth. It turns out that I'm just lazy!

[tango]

It's a shame they didn't include an alternative for the times I want to call someone a 9-banded armadillo.

[Sojourner]

I guess saying someone is crazy as a loon or a bed bug is a no-no, as well, huh? I certainly wouldn't wanna be branded a "speciesist".

[tango]

I'm also puzzled why "pig" is replaced with "repulsive". I usually use the term to indicate someone is greedy.

[Sojourner]

I guess it could be either, depending on the context. Then you have your "male chauvinist" variety. (Not sure how the pig is dragged into that one).

How about "happy as a lark?" Maybe that one's exempt because it doesn't malign the lark.

[Sojourner]

I'm also puzzled why "pig" is replaced with "repulsive". I usually use the term to indicate someone is greedy.

Yeah, I didn't get the correlation between a snake and being a jerk. If I call someone a snake, I'm thinking more along the lines of being deceitful, unscrupulous or untrustworthy.

Speciesism is yet another addition to the bag of "isms" and "phobias' that liberals use to bludgeon people with political correctness. We have racism, sexism, colorism, tokenism, ageism, ableism, elitism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and fatphobia. There's even atheophobia, discrimination against atheists. Anyone can be a victim of society nowadays -- except able-bodied, caucasion, heterosexual Christian males.

[tango]

I guess it could be either, depending on the context. Then you have your "male chauvinist" variety. (Not sure how the pig is dragged into that one).

How about "happy as a lark?" Maybe that one's exempt because it doesn't malign the lark.

I wonder if skunks are known for their consumption of excessive quantities of alcohol. If not then phrases like "drunk as a skunk" are also inappropriate.

[Sojourner]

More fearless, in-your-face speciesism:

Drink like a fish
Multiply like rabbits
Blind as a bat
Like a deer in the headlights
 

[tango]

More fearless, in-your-face speciesism:

Drink like a fish
Multiply like rabbits
Blind as a bat
Like a deer in the headlights

I wonder why we are so specifically concerned about animals. If someone is described as begin "as thin as a rake", why do we get to use a rake as a comparison without repercussions if it's not OK to say someone is "as fat as a pig"?

Do these issues only apply if something is deemed negative in some way? Saying someone is "as fat as a pig" is likely to be an insult but saying they are "as strong as an ox" is probably a compliment. Is it OK to refer to positive attributes of an animal? If so, does the skunk's stench count as a positive or a negative attribute - although the smell is unpleasant it is used as a deterrent with a view to keeping the skunk alive for longer, and so is presumably a good thing from the perspective of the skunk even if it's less good from the perspective of whatever got sprayed.