Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men "frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them."
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it looks so cute 😭
Also the steller's sea cow
Within 27 years of its discovery by Europeans, the slow-moving and easily-caught mammal was hunted into extinction for its meat, fat, and hide.
It really is sad. There are animals I would have loved to see that were driven to extinction by entirely man made forces. It's heinous. I want to give that nice wolf pets 😟
Also, non-vegans shouldn't be allowed to get mad over this tbh.
Sucks enough reading about it, I’m surprised you would want to actually watch them being driven to extinction so much.
A part of the Christian imperialist worldview, the idea that 'Man is above animal and they were created by God to be used as Man sees fit', has been the cause of endless horrors. Without this human-supremacist view they would treat other people better too, even if their enemies were 'subhuman', if they had compassion for animals.
It makes me think of the connection between 'masculinity' and eating meat in the West. It's seen as effeminate to eat vegetables or be vegan, this idea helps reinforce a worldview centered on violence and exploitation.
Rare to come across someone who has an understanding of the indigineous / the original way that our ancestors saw our relationship with life on Earth.
I'm not at all shocked that a lot of men now feel lost under the dominant world view. Since the industrial revolution, masculinity has become defined as taking more than you need at a cost that your descendants will need to pay (through harm that you bring to the Earth). That type of imbalance will inevitably promote a lack of purpose.
While it's true that Christian imperialism is environmentally destructive, hunting species to extinction predates both Christianity and white people. Every continent suffered mass extinctions pretty much the moment the humans set foot there for the first time.
The invention of agriculture provided a huge material impetus to destroy predator populations and as far back as the neolithic revolution humans conducted the mass burning of forests and wild habitat to clear room for farms.
Yes, it starts with civilization in general. But Christian imperialism sure sent it into overdrive.
With the advent of agriculture and domestication of animals, humans began to believe that they hold dominion over nature. Perhaps that was inevitable. But it's that worldview that has us hurling down a path of irreversible climate change that may lead to our (and others) extinction.
you know they were putting mayo on those dog sandwiches
a whole fukken species of cool friends but the kkkolonizers couldn't help themselves
Milo on trashfuture has a bit about the falkland islands being almost made in a lab to make the brits seem not entirely evil; an island that was genuinely terra nullius. Of course they would still somehow find a way to do a genocide anyways.
lot of chauvinist brainworms on there between him, Nova and Hussein
I finally unsubbed after Hussein's reaction to the GHF was 'now bad countries like Russia will do genocide!'
The same for dodo's
Nearly happened to the Galapagos tortoise too, but they were saved just in the nick of time when conservation efforts got serious in the 1970s. They used to be a favorite of English sailors who would stack them upside-down in their ships because they would stay alive for months and provide a ready freshly killed meal whenever they were hungry. The "Age of Discovery" is basically European colonialists committing unspeakable crimes upon every new habitat and population they stumbled across.
o damn that is quite recently, for the dodo it was done at the end of the 17th century. it only took about 30 years for the dutch to destroy such a magnificent bird
And apparently they didn't even enjoy it; the taste of the meat was bad.
Real, "ITS COMMING RIGHT FOR US", hours.
Poor guys, they looked so cute.
Same thing almost happened with the Kakapo, a flightless parrot that has no natural predators and was very docile and friendly.
yeah but the kakopo got its revenge eventually
I wonder if there's still people on this site who think the Malvinas belong to Perfidious Albion
since they apparently didn't displace indigenous people i struggle to justify it not being up to the people who live there.
but i also think shouldn't get any claim to territorial waters or whatever from it.
No Natives on the islands, no, but insofar as the status quo upholds imperialism in Latin America, it also screws over the Natives of Latin America, too.
since they apparently didn't displace indigenous people i struggle to justify it not being up to the people who live there.
If one day the UK ever grant them independece they will 100% be forced to join Argentina, no one in the Global South cares about them and most countries in Latin America have organized a boycott of doing business with the islands. It's going to be just like the Panama Canal, with the Zonians returning to the US and the Panama goverment replacing the empty colony with locals.
I would say this is somewhat similar to the Guayana Essequibo Conflict, but Venezuela actually granted citizenship to everyone that lives in the Essequibo region (probably because unlike the Falklands, 100k people live there and have nowhere to go).
They belong to the penguins
the link between imperialism and environmental damage will forever remain strong
While it is a subset of imperialism, colonialism and the extractionary systems it created in the global south in order to bankroll the industrial revolution is deserving of a special shout out.
You see the ridge here in the white skull? That makes them predisposed to murdering defenseless creatures.
this but ironically. "whites are genetically predisposed to violence and barbarism" is the simplest yet truest explanation of the course of world history since 1492, if not before
i'm white