PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal) is without a doubt one of the most polarizing groups ever, at least online. While some of their advocacies can be noble and reasonable, some are also questionable and borderline waste of resources. So when they demanded that people stop using animal idioms because those are violent, you can bet the internet has an answer to them.
PETA recently took to Twitter and uploaded a notorious new advocacy which their group wants to be done with grim determination: stop the so-called “Anti-Animal Language.” These are animal idioms where animals are used as metaphors or figurative points of comparison for real-world issues which usually don’t always involve animals:
Words matter, and as our understanding of social justice evolves, our language evolves along with it. Here’s how to remove speciesism from your daily conversations. pic.twitter.com/o67EbBA7H4
— PETA (@peta) December 4, 2018
Seems they got a little too creative there and even preserved the rhyme in some of the idioms. Some people do prefer bagels, however, bacon can be more delicious and nutritious. Of course, the internet responded with flying colors and people were quick to come up with their own intentional pig-headed… er, sorry, Trump-headed retorts.
Raising awareness and teaching us new phrases? thats killing two birds with one stone right there.
— Tryzick (@Tryzick) December 5, 2018
So I’m supposed to grab a flower by the thorns? What about my fingers? Or what about the flowers feelings?
— Andrew Schlanser (@AndrewSchlanser) December 5, 2018
I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag, sound too pig headed, but want to address the elephant in the room, there is more than one way to skin a cat.
— Mike (@mcaruso1) December 4, 2018
Still, PETA is intent on keeping with its advocacy and went mad as a hornet, I mean, mad enough to… deplore it? Whew. So they came up with their own reply:
Just as it became unacceptable to use racist, homophobic, or ableist language, phrases that trivialize cruelty to animals will vanish as more people begin to appreciate animals for who they are and start ‘bringing home the bagels’ instead of the bacon.
— PETA (@peta) December 4, 2018
Yep, they really did compare apples to oranges. Well, not exactly the first time that PETA has drawn controversy online by advocating something only to end up with the completely opposite result of their goal.
Or, how about, we just completely ignore you and carry on saying things that people have said for nearly a hundred years. Because that’s why 95% of the World will do, as they should.
— Lewis Vaughan-Jones (@LewisVaughan9) December 5, 2018
Pick your battles, PETA. There’s bigger fish to fry.
— Euan Purchase ⛄️ (@euanspc) December 4, 2018
People simply did not let up and went out of their way to make PETA’s advocacy a wild goose chase… oops.
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