The GG and the seal heart

[coneycat]

Some of you may have heard that, on a recent trip to Rankin Inlet in Nunavut, Governor General Michaëlle Jean participated in a seal-skinning ritual and ate part of the raw heart.International foes of the seal hunt are understandably outraged

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[dewline]

Damn good points from Joe Fiorito and your own self.

The militantly disagreeable, on this point, can get themselves to a taxidermist at their convenience.

[coneycat]

I was really interested in his perspective as someone who'd been an outsider in the north. He really seemed to try to take in what was around him, at least.

[swarles]

It amazes me how Newfoundlanders have somehow put themselves right in the middle of all of this. "She's defending the seal hunt!" they say. I says she was respecting the people she was visiting by participating in their traditions. I don't think it has anything to do with the seal hunt. This is an unpopular opinion where I live.

[coneycat]

I think it had far more to do with the Inuit than the seal hunt. Although I could see the GG getting stiff-necked if she thought she had to...

[dewline]

I think she'll get stiff-necked whenever she deems it proper and needed. And she's likely got a better sense of both conditions than I would.

[revelininsanity]

*reads comments to the article*

The morning started SO well. I knew we were all doomed by the end of the day.

[coneycat]

I don't even look at comment threads on news articles anymore. There's usually no point.