Comments on: Black “Role Models” Defend Vick

By: Nightmare

Nightmare — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:14:51 +0000

I HAVE met a couple of dogs that I want to strangle. But you’re right there are more people out there that need a good choking, or holding them underwater until the bubbles stop.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:50:19 +0000

I live in Virginia and no it is not normal. Does WG spend time in Virginia?

Another thing – eating meat and buying leather isn’t much different than fighting dogs. What says that one animal is more important than another. Pigs are smarter than dogs but people eat them all the time.

In some cultures it is great to eat dogs and cats yet cows are revered. Who is wrong us or them? Both.

I had the same arguement with my in laws over lunch. They were sitting and eating bacon sandwiches talking about how animal cruelty is so bad. They said it’s ok to eat meat and all but bad to hurt a dog. I said, Umm no not really.

People think of a lot of excuses to justify the things they like.

By: wilberteets

wilberteets — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:07:46 +0000

You could say the very same thing about slavery. In some parts of the country back in slavery days, it was considered normal. People who grew up with it did not see it as wrong. Might be a truth, but it’s bogus to the very last drop. Ya know?

By: Andria

Andria — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:24:19 +0000

I honestly don’t think Whoopi was defending him per se – she said that dog-fighting is common in parts of the south, and that some people who grew up with it don’t think it’s wrong, and that might be what was going on with Michael Vick. (I think that’s bullshit, because his own father has spoken publicly about advising his son FOR YEARS about how wrong it was.) But I still don’t think she was defending him. I think (ok, I hope) she was trying to shine a light on the fact that there is a whole culture of people in this country that think this is alright.

And I think for CNN to compare outrage over animal abuse to human abuse is pretty retarded. There’s no outrage because people don’t really care about other people when it comes right down to it.