I run across some truly appalling human beings on Twitter on an almost daily basis. So I got to thinking: Why not share some of the most terrible tweets from these unsung antiheroes of the internet with you, my readers, and ruin your day the way these tweets have ruined mine?
So let’s start off this new intermittent Worst of Twitter series with a fellow calling himself “World Jew Watch.” Here are a few of the nuggets of, er, wisdom he has chosen to share with the world in recent days, some of which hearken back to anti-Semitic myths so ancient there were already a bit hackneyed back in Henry Ford’s day.
https://twitter.com/WorldJewWatch/status/856612701539368960
https://twitter.com/WorldJewWatch/status/856538193075859456
https://twitter.com/WorldJewWatch/status/856596376406417408
https://twitter.com/WorldJewWatch/status/856153908137390082
https://twitter.com/WorldJewWatch/status/856543887829192705
https://twitter.com/WorldJewWatch/status/856186447828856842
https://twitter.com/WorldJewWatch/status/856181606935134211
https://twitter.com/WorldJewWatch/status/855166755261603843
https://twitter.com/WorldJewWatch/status/853991975023988737
https://twitter.com/WorldJewWatch/status/850712573297270785
Yep, World Jew Watch is definitely kicking it old school.
this is the problem I have with animal rights movements, they don’t care even a little bit about people, especially marginalized folk. remember the vegans comparing enslaved people to cattle? yeah, that’s why I don’t trust them.
Victoria
The Animal rights movement by design is meant to care for the rights of animals. If someone is in a situation were they can’t care for their animal then they are violating those rights. I agree there are situations were they can be dismissive to marginalized people but this is not one of them.
@Victoria
Good idea. Is pet food free right now where you live? Probably not. So let’s first recognize what the reality is.
Many of us do. Weird assumption on your part that we don’t.
I don’t. I wouldn’t let dogs keep homeless people as pets either.
Why leave the animal to rot?
Your comment confirms my suspicion that you view animals as objects which exist to serve people. That’s just not how things work.
Oooookay, now we’ve entered Whatta Fucksville. Apology needed before any further communication can take place.
Okay, yeah, they’re one of those “I don’t know what any of these magical incantations mean, but the SJWs say them when they wave their magic wands at me, so I’m going to wave mine right back!” trolls (possibly Mark yet again, given the username, quickfire posts and worsening punctuation). Well, can’t say I didn’t give ’em a fair shake this time.
I live in a rural area where the nearest vet is 45 miles away, and I lived below the poverty line as a single mom for 8 of the past 12 years I’ve lived here. I managed to still have my pets neutered and spayed, and to provide proper veterinary care for them, including vaccinations, checkups, flea & tick medications, etc.
Sorry, that’s part of the responsibility of having a pet.
Unlike everything you’ve assumed about me, I’m not some radical animal rights activist. I’m just a regular person, one who has lived in poverty for more years than I’ve lived out of it. You don’t have to lecture me on what it’s like, I know what it’s like. But you still have choices to make. I love my pets, but I only have one dog and one cat, because that is all I can afford to have and to take proper care of, to give proper attention to.
I don’t forget about the people, but the pet’s life matters, too, especially when you’re weighing something like hunger and physical suffering against intangibles like emotional comfort.
I understand that you have a personal issue with this topic and maybe that caused you to lash out at me, I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt on that even though I do feel you owe me an apology for your initial comments to me. That you continue to double down on your wild assumptions, your lectures, and your insults isn’t making your arguments any more attractive though.
I don’t see what right we humans have to mutilate animals.
If you are so irresponsible with your pets that you can’t keep them from breeding indiscriminately with feral animals, you shouldn’t have a pet.
But how dare anyone, shelters or vets, or whoever, assume that I am not going to take proper care with my animals? How dare they insist that I have them permanently disfigured and disordered so that they can feel better about their self-righteous selves?
I’m sick of it
http://i.imgur.com/7twtbRN.gif
What the fuck is even happening on this thread?
@Zatar
Ethics in animal ball cutting.
I have promised myself that I will not adopt a rescue animal from a shelter unless and until I am certain that I can provide it with the necessary care and treatment.
If I can’t do that, no pet.
Regarding the OP – anti-Semites have to be among the least original haters on the planet. They haven’t had a new idea since Martin Luther threw his inkpot. Even the Protocols are plagiarized.
Oh, indeed. That’s why I advocate for age-appropriate sexual education for household pets. I have also talked to my own cats about the risks and responsibilities that come with sex. I have encouraged them to talk to their doctors about birth control options, and to come to me if they ever have questions.
Oh wait, no I haven’t. Because they are cats.
Female cats who aren’t spayed can start going through cycles of being in heat that get closer and closer together till it’s constant, which is very hard on their bodies.
They can also develop horrendous infections in their reproductive system.
We once took in a cat whose owner had for years given her pills to mask heat symptoms rather than having her fixed. The poor cat nearly died due to massively inflamed and infected fallopian tubes.
It’s not “mutilation” or for the benefit of humans. Get your damn pets fixed.
Thinking back to when Demi was in heat as a young cat, she seemed to be in agony. 🙁 Poor girl.
Their poor little bodies can’t take it.
The kitty we rescued pretty much collapsed suddenly and had to be rushed to the vet. The wonderful thing was that two short days after her surgery, she was bright-eyed and curious. Even the vet was surprised and how fast she bounced back.
@Crys T
When we went to the vet to have ours spayed, he told us to just take a walk (very small clinic, nowhere to wait around) for 20 minutes or so and then come back.
We came back 25 minutes later, and walked in on the horrific sight of our sweet little cat passed out on her back, stomach cut wide open. The vet was like “oh, just give me 5 minutes and I’ll sew her up”.
Me = scarred for life.
Oh no! I couldn’t handle that!
I didn’t see it, but my partner saw the fallopian tubes the vet removed. Apparently, normal cat ones are like threads, but hers looked like fat sausages.
How she was still alive was a mystery.
IP – I feel ya about the thread blowup; I decided to poke a troll a while back and something similar happened. Want some of my M&Ms?
It is amazing how resilient cats are. Dracarys was only spayed two days before I adopted her and aside from the shaved stomach, you’d never know she just had a major surgery. She was a little more sedate than I now know her to be but I think that had more to do with the respiratory infection she caught at the shelter than the surgery. For humans on the other hand, a hysterectomy is a huge deal.
Apologies to everyone for any instigating I did that led to thread meltdown. I meant only to advocate for spaying and neutering our pets. I love my cat and my dog, and I’ve loved all my pets through my life.
I swear I am not some rigid kind of zealot about it. I apologize if I came off that way.
I really do just want us to take good care of our companions, and I know that the cat-lovers (and dog people, and donkey-people, and bird people, and hedgehog and bunny people?) here really do that.
@IP
For what it’s worth, I was just thinking this morning how cute it would’ve been to have seen my kitty have little mini kitties. Alas, it shall never be
The only answer that I can see to the spay/neuter question if (IF) we allow that it constitutes mutilation and shouldn’t be done is to simply do away with domesticated species. Which I find grossly unfair to those species since we pretty much created them to begin with.
Reproductively intact animals are notoriously very difficult to keep from, you know, reproducing. No matter how careful and responsible humans try to be. Besides, how much less cruel is it to insist that animals be left intact and then keep them from breeding?
I sometimes go back and forth as to whether even having a pet is ethical (even though Catbeast seems to think it’s fine) because I wonder if an animal that evolved to hunt and eat prey can be truly happy laying around, interacting with humans, getting fed processed food and such. But this is something that I can never know for sure either way.
What I *do* know is that these animals don’t deserve to be abandoned to become feral in a world where they get rounded up and killed.
Also, I love my furry old man fiercely and woe be to anyone who tries to take him!
dreemr,
You’re good. I understand where Victoria is coming from given the behavior of PETA and also given the major privilege blindness that a lot of militant vegan types can display. Like, I can see how it’s a sore spot. But I didn’t see anything in your post that suggests that you think people are evil if they have pets who aren’t fixed.
@Crys T: I’m so glad your kitty got well. That must have been a scary situation.
My first cat was an older kitten when we adopted her. She went into heat about two months later. The yowling – my God! the yowling! We had her spayed and everyone, Kitty included, seemed much happier. For feral cats, I support trap-neuter-release programs.