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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (876899)	7/31/2015 8:28:41 PM
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Zimbabweans don't get the Cecil the Lion outrage: Country w/72% Poverty Rate and 2 Million Starving Doesn't Care About Cecil the Lion "We never hear them speak out when villagers are killed by lions" .... "What lion?" acting information minister Prisca Mupfumira asked in response to a request for comment about Cecil, who was at that moment topping global news bulletins and generating reams of abuse for his killer on websites in the United States and Europe. ................ "Are you saying that all this noise is about a dead lion? Lions are killed all the time in this country," said Tryphina Kaseke, a used-clothes hawker on the streets of Harare. "What is so special about this one?" "Why are the Americans more concerned than us?" said Joseph Mabuwa, a 33-year-old father-of-two cleaning his car in the center of the capital. "We never hear them speak out when villagers are killed by lions and elephants in Hwange." .............. But people don't matter. Lions matter. We are dealing with a low information voter population that reacts to empathy triggers rather than reason. A million deaths, as Stalin pointed, is a statistic. But a lion with a first name is an atrocity. 99 percent of the people outraged about Cecil have little interest in what has been going on in Zimbabwe and how it got that way and how their governments helped make it happen. The name Mugabe means nothing to them. And that's why we have the system that we have today. Cecil stands in for Sandra Bland.* For the latest social media/media crisis invented and inflated to distract us from mass murder and the mass destruction of our future and our way of life. http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/259648/country-w72-poverty-rate-and-2-million-starving-daniel-greenfield * Cecil is better than Sandra Bland for the perpetually outraged. Bland had 10 past traffic violations, including several DUI's, $7K in unpaid fines, was driving on a suspended license, & was going to get a written warning but refused to sign it. Her attitude got arrested and her own family wouldn't put up $500 bail to let her out. Cecil has none of these things in his background.