“Save the whales”, “Save the rhino” etc. used to be incredibly popular. That Western Media stopped “Save the undernourished African baby with flies” suggests that they are socially defined as animals.
Nowadays, it is, in other words, “Kill Russians” and “Kill Palestinians”.
It shows how the Media narrative is manipulated.
Of course, Humans are animals, but we never refer to ourselves as such. That would be the same as admitting we pee and are predators. ‘We’ reserve that for what’s less than us.
For example, the Public, which means you and me, consider Victoria Nuland to be a pathetic yet somehow dangerous animal, and she’s got flies that buzz like F-16s (except the one that got shot down).
But animals that are not us are back in the news!
Unfortunately, that began with millions of dead fish in Greece. Now it’s about canned lion hunting profits under threat of extinction in South Africa.
Have no fear, it’s only the weekend. On Monday we’ll return to ‘normality’ with “Kill Russians” and “Kill Palestinians”.
It’s good to be Human… is it?
Think how lazy, vacuous and morally hollow someone has to be to pay for a "guaranteed" "trophy" lion "hunt".
Years ago, when I was a journalist, I interviewed an old codger who as a young man had seduced and married his uncle's wife to get to her wealth then did numerous safaris to Africa. His home was filled with the mounted heads of lions, gazelles, bears and -- yes -- even an elephant. I took my son along for the interview so he would get a clear image of what an empty soulless man looked and sounded like.
The very fine folk on all sides in TelAviv call the Palestinians animals to justify the atrocities against them and our rushing of arm shipments implies the Biden Harris administration buys into the argument.