Tits and Activism, One Night Only Folks
Now I think some pretty numerous things about PETA as an organization. Say, as a protest point group; as shit disturbers; as propaganda-by-deed artists; as animal rights artsy bourgeois whores; as beneficiaries of too many decent, hard-working people's money; as representatives of the stupidest "influence campains"; as loud mouthed masochists who
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The problem with PETA (other than them being wrong) is that far from shining a light on the issues, they detract from them. Their campaigns never end up having people talk about fur, meat, or etc... but rather have people talking about PETA - great if you're a company trying to increase awareness of yourself; not so much if you're an organisation claiming to be trying to increase awareness of an issue.
That said, naked people is a damn sight better than mocking the holocaust.
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In semi-defense of a highly questionable topical campain, they didn't mock the holocaust, they made a very potent emotional argument for animal consumption. In some eyes, where they may have a more personal attachment to that entire horror, I'm sure that comparing eating animals to the willful genocide of humans to be completely insulting and therefore a mockery. That said, I'm not justifying their horror tactics, but I must say that I *feel* what they were trying to portray regardless. I see mammal (if not all animal) life as deserving of respect, and I have no doubt that farm animals feel pain and can suffer (needlessly).
Then again, I'm sure their "holocaust on a plate" campain did wonders for notoriety. I'm sure the masochist planners got off the day that campain was launched.
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Mock was perhaps a bad word, but 'belittle' or 'minimised' are, IMNAAHO, entirely appropriate words for what they were doing to the holocaust.
Don't get me wrong, I also understand what they were trying to portray, and I know that it was not their intention to minimise the Holocaust - and that in their eyes, they probably didn't.
That said, it still showed a revolting contempt for human life, suffering, and atrocities. It really was much worse than getting Pamela Anderson naked.
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I mean, I draw hilarious parallels between aborted fetuses and rejection and/or between abortions and stomach pain and/or other tragic hilarious bits all the time. That is, if I honour the sentiment of the original horror, how do I desecrate it if I use it as a simile or metaphor?
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That was an AWSOME add, i loved that shit. i sent that to everyone at the time.
it was still up when i checked a couple months ago
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Besides, remember me telling you I was going to Dublin FOR MY BIRTHDAY??? ;)
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Even so, you deserve more than what kind of sounds like a lame excuse (from an outsider's perspective). That is not to say that I am quite brazen in my admitted my weird, spacy memory.
I owe you belated real wishes. The trick: you'll not know when to expect them. Dun dun duuuuun.
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Especially temporal. I can't remember when things happened, or what happened before something else. And I'm shite with dates.
Ooooh, now I'll be in a state of anticipation for the rest of the year!!! =P
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