One aspect of the Michael Vick mess that I find particularly fascinating is the tellingly tepid response of everyone’s favorite animal rights Nazis, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, to the news of Vick’s reinstatement to the NFL. I couldn’t help noticing that nowhere to be found in the news was any vitriolic statement by PETA condemning Vick, his savior Roger Goodell (NFL commissioner), nor any avowal on their part to aggressively protest any team that signs the QB. As a matter of fact, PETA’s president and founder, Ingrid Newkirk, suggested this week, in a mealy-mouthed statement, that she didn’t really know what they would do, but she doubted they would be doing any picketing over this.
This is the response from the same group that has long-advocated and initialized direct action against those who abuse animals? It’s all very curious, at first glance. I mean, if you visit PETA’s website now, just a few short days after his reinstatement, you’ll not find any reference at all to the Vick affair on the home page. So…what gives?
Race gives. Race, the most electrified of society’s third rails, is apparently so shocking for the white liberal animal whackos that they aren’t willing to overcome the current in order to protest the kind of dog butcher who typifies their consummate enemy. If Vic was white, this would be easy for them, as white liberals hate white people, for reasons that mystify most of the rest of us of any color. As a black man, however, Vick and his transgressions have confused the loyalties of leftist whitey; clearly, PETA does not want to be seen protesting a black man who has served jail time for his crimes and is now trying to make a living at his chosen profession. Still, PETA has always prided itself on its militancy, and if you take them at their word, their passionate, single-minded interest is in seeking justice on behalf of our furry friends; accordingly, nothing should stop them from doing that…should it?
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PETA is almost exactly like NOW: more interested in polishing its left-liberal bona-fides than actually addressing, head-on, the relevant issues of the day. Not to get too off-topic, but where was NOW's support of independent, career-minded woman Sarah Palin? Where was NOW's support of the War on Terror, where good men and women lost their lives in part to bring democracy and human rights to benighted places like Afghanistan, where a woman can be legally murdered for being alone in a room with a man not her husband?
I didn't know about PETA's disturbingly lukewarm reaction to Vick's potential NFL reinstatement, but I'm not surprised. It's a lot safer to spray red paint on old ladies wearing furs than go after someone like Michael Vick, a likely sociopath.
It's actually very interesting to see: one grievance group against another grievance group. PETA blinked first: who wants to be called a racist? Why go out on that limb?
Posted by: Dave Dubrow | July 30, 2009 at 03:41 PM
I strongly disagree with PETA's lack of involvement in the Vick matter, Although I can understand why they would avoid attacking him for his unthinkable crime. Exactly for the reasons stated, Race. Unfortunately it could cause more harm to the Peta cause as a whole if somehow their company, controversial as it is, also now would be considered a racist organization. Everything is about race. It is horrible, but true! What if Michael Jackson's Dr. was white, dear Lord! The world would come unglued. Way worse than O.J. But, since he is a black man, they must focus their attention in other areas of the case.
Posted by: Shaun Tolley | August 01, 2009 at 10:05 AM