{"id":1031,"date":"2014-04-15T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2014-04-14T20:30:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T01:30:45","slug":"animal-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/04\/animal-advocates\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal advocates advocate for writer&#8217;s suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/bdb8d9ff4d0e63c6d3ba7395d35dffdc\/tumblr_n41tfkSJAx1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" \/><br \/>\nValpara\u00edso region in Chile is having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-27007884\">one of the country&#8217;s fiercest fires<\/a>. People have lost relatives, friends and their belongings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Amidst this tragedy, writer and journalist\u00a0<strong>Rafael Gumucio<\/strong>\u00a0tweeted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rafaelgumucioa\/status\/455507936790720512\">this opinion<\/a>, which was not well received by animal advocates:<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rafaelgumucioa\/status\/455507936790720512\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/rafaelgumucioa\/status\/455507936790720512<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Some hipsters went to save kittens and dogs while Valpara\u00edso was burning and thousands of their countrymen fighting for their lives. #embarrassment<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">That&#8217;s all it took for animal activists to justify such a behavior and <a title=\"Destrozan al escritor Rafael Gumucio por mensaje sobre animales quemados en incendio de Valpara\u00edso\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glamorama.cl\/articulo\/noticias\/2014\/04\/10-5145-9-destrozan-al-escritor-rafael-gumucio-por-mensaje-sobre-animales-quemados-en.shtml\">go after him, threaten him and even wish for his daughters to die<\/a>. So&#8230; animals are as important as humans when it&#8217;s about <em>saving them<\/em>, but when humans say something animal activists dislike, killing <em>those<\/em> animals is fair game. (I know, I know &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/01\/03\/caterina-simonsen\/\">animal advocates advocating for the suffering and death of human animals<\/a><\/strong> is not new)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I don&#8217;t know how many more cases we need to see before calling animal advocacy for what it really is, misanthropy, but I do know I&#8217;m sticking to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/06\/05\/anthropocentrism\/\">my anthropocentrism<\/a><\/strong>: loving human kind first and foremost, a better source of ethics. That&#8217;s Huminsm 101.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valpara\u00edso region in Chile is having one of the country&#8217;s fiercest fires. People have lost relatives, friends and their belongings.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[206,290,32,139,294],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-animal-activism","tag-chile","tag-double-standards","tag-humanism","tag-misanthropy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}