Euro-weenies, minority rights and the seal hunt

I had a rather amazing piece of video sent to me today by a reader. It was an off-the-cuff interview with a couple of people walking back from a protest against those sanctimonious over-fed spoiled arrogant bureaucrats and left-tards at the European union.

What struck me when watching this short interview was the nearly magical hubris and hypocrisy of people who can walk a quarter block and buy all the food they want for a few hours wages from sitting around in an office or perhaps collecting benefits from the state daring to tell people from a radically different culture and living under incomprehensibly different conditions what they should and should not be able to eat.

It also struck me that it is a dead certainty that the very same people who demand an end to the seal hunt are the people who also demand multiculturalism be forced on us all and use the phrase ‘minority rights’ as if it was a sacred mantra. Well the Inuit of Canada are most certainly a minority people and apparently  the Euro-weenies are determined to crush their rights anyway they can.

Thanks to our man on the street for sending this footage in.

(MRCTV videos seem no longer to work in some browsers. Please click here for the youtube version of this one)

One thing I have to say though. A friend of this site is fond of the following joke…

“Two seals walk into a club”

Inuit signs Rideau St-2 March 15 2013-Small

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Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

12 Replies to “Euro-weenies, minority rights and the seal hunt”

  1. Bravo to the man on the street for being in the right place at the right time. Films like this need to be seen by the holier than thou wankers that are a bane to life here in the EUSSR.

  2. It’s one thing to kill an animal out of necessity for food and another to barbarically club thousands of seal pups to death for people who don’t need it and don’t need to wear seal fur.

    Killing so many and so cruelly is the issue. No one is trying to prevent Inuits from hunting seals for food or to keep warm. So, Inuits, don’t twist your panties over this. You should be exempt from any laws.

    And…Europeans, as Americans, are appalled at eating horses. It’s like eating our dogs.

    Also…I hate multiculturalism and would send all non-European immigrants who came here during the past 50 years out of the country, citizen or not.

    USA

  3. You would think the Inuits are exempt but the left probably won’t let them be, Several years ago after the whale population had recovered a tribe in the Northwest wanted to start their traditional whale hunt for the tribe, the left threw a hissy fit and took them to court. The tribe won.

  4. Hi Vlad, EDL Buck,

    I’m unable to see the video but I assume from the article that some smelly lefties are complaining about something relating to seal/veal clubbing calves/pups.

    Please refrain from assuming that all “animal rights champions” are leftards.

    As someone who is passionate about animal rights and the need to address creeping islamification of the Western Hemisphere I find it worrying that you choose to ridicule/alienate potential allies.

    As I say I’m unable to see the video, so appologies if I’ve got ther wrong end of the stick.

    Welcome your thoughts/further discussion

    Egg

  5. Egg Plant:

    Actually I am also an animal rights believer. I think that one of the major benefits of civilization is the idea that we choose a finite number of domestic animals, that we should breed, raise and slaughter them as humanly as possible to take care of our needs and leave the rest of nature alone.

    However this applies to civilized people. The Inuit in Nunavut where people are trying to force their cultural norms are not civilized. They do not have animal husbandry etc. and it is highly hypocritical for the European Union to demand that they stop a traditional way of life to satisfy a misconception by well fed people who get their food from a store a half block away. Or probably as often, call someone who delivers it.

    another point is that If people want to be multicultural then fine. But it galls me that often the same people who call themselves multiculturalists would then insist that the Inuit end their practice of the seal hunt. You don’t get to have it both ways. Either force your cultural norms on others or be genuinely multicultural. Something I think is an oxymoron anyway.

    Please try using Firefox or any other browser to see this video. Ill put it up at YT also for you.

    I welcome your response.

  6. Hi Eeyore,
    thanks for the clarification and response to my post.

    I would argue that we should all be civilized, hence my rejection of multiculturalism and the toleration of bad behavior.

    My understanding of modern day Inuit, or Eskimos to use the non-PC description is that they no longer live in igloos, have central heating, TV, internet connections, GPS and i-phones etc.

    Therefore the seal-clubbing whale hunting activities they continue to practice are no longer necessary and merely “playing shop” .

    I’m just concerned that this excellent blog and others highlighting the jihad on the West attack animal rights campaigners and assume they are all leftist/marxists; who lets face it care nothing about animals or people in reality.

    This is a battle of minds and I assume there are a number of individuals on your side who think like I do.

    I accept that my take on things may come across as somewhat intolerant but this is how I feel.

    Regards

    Egg

  7. Egg:

    Actually I agree with you. There are however, geopolitical constraints on civilization. It is, for example, much more expensive to move goods in the mountains or in the far north, typically committing people who live there to certain lifestyles. Mountain people tend to be poor and very conservative for example. Which is why Islam took well in Iran and Afghanistan.

    I do agree however that the goal should be civilization for all. It takes 60 square miles per man/woman/child to live in a neolithic lifestyle and its a crappy lifestyle in any case. But in the meantime, the European elites who like to judge others while trying to stay on their diets really should butt out of the lives of the Inuit unless they intend to provide stores that sell food at the same price they pay.

  8. Eeyore,

    rest assured Inuit lifestyle however crappy is under no threat from the EU elite. Minority groups as you know are favored and trump the majority, which is predominantly white Christian/secular in Europe currently.

    If only the the European elite judged others more the world would be a far better place. Currently they turn a blind eye to “sensitive cultural norms” such as FGM, homophobia, honor killing, misogyny, low female literacy rates, child brides, clerical fascism and dare I say it, an appalling animal rights record carried out by a certain demographic in their own countries and now being introduced to the West.

    There is only one group/lifestyle/culture under threat from the EU elite/political class.

    However I do take your point.

    Egg

  9. To be clear, however modernized Inuit communities are, it is still essential to hunt seal for health and well-being.

    So, Inuit don’t live in Igloos anymore, and they have TVs and Internet and whatever you may find anywhere else in the world. That doesn’t mean that hunting is no longer needed. If you lived in a place where it cost 3x as much as it does in the south to buy anything, you would be working 9-5 just to put food on the table, not to mention to pay your rent and other expenses.Take note that there is an extremely limited amount of jobs in the north for everyone, how else are some people supposed to get their food?

    Also, due to the blizzards and climate change, sometimes freight and sea-lift shipments are delayed by days or weeks, leaving the communities with a shortage of food. Frozen and microwavable items are sometimes the only things left on the shelves of these communities, which are very unhealthy, as you may be aware. Seal meat is healthier than anything found in the stores, holding all the nutrients and vitamins found in milk, fruits and vegetables, and other meat.

    And though it is true that Inuit are exempted from the EU’s bans, there are still negative impacts. Inuit use the whole animal, they eat as much as they can and then they use the skin to make clothing and jewelry and other products to sell so that they can pay their bills and buy more supplies to keep hunting. Except that, with the ban, the market has crashed and Inuit seal skins cannot sell anymore. Oh yeah, and the baby seal ban has been imposed for the past 20 years, which animal rights groups are still using as their platform for banning the seal hunt.

    Now, I’d like to inform you on the negative social impacts that the seal ban in the 1980’s had on Inuit, which they were also exempted from. The suicide rate among Inuit men skyrocketed, as they felt they had no purpose anymore. They couldn’t sell the seal furs anymore because the market had crashed, making it impossible to provide their families with anything other than food. They couldn’t pay their bills, ending up living in poverty. Would you believe me if I told you that the majority of the population is still living in poverty, in third world conditions, today?

    Inuit are adapting to the modern lifestyle, slowly, but imagine how difficult that may be when there aren’t efficient and adequate resources in education, employment, health care, housing?

    Use this information however you want, just don’t disregard that culture is no longer essential in Inuit life. (Also take note that “Inuit” is already plural.) Okay, there’s my two cents. Thanks.

  10. AJ

    You obviously know far more about the lifestyle of the Inuit than I do.

    Are you from the Inuit culture?

    I re-read my post and I sound like a knob. Quite disrespectful. I appologise.

    I think the purpose of this blog is to preserve culture(s) and I appologise if you think I was disregarding yours.

    Would really welcome your thoughts on conservation and limiting the impact of hunting in the artic circle.

    egg