They're not actually concern trolling though. It's just typical conservative in-group out-group stuff again. Dogs are in, cats mostly, rescued or "rescued" animals most definitely, even when they're usually versions hunted for sport and/or factory farmed. On the latter I'm kind of unsure as to whether some notion of bootstrap plays into it.
Much like with everything else they just don't realize this in-group and out-group thing, albeit that's not even limited to actual chuds as per animals.
They don't care about* squirrels*, they care about these two specific squirrels (or, well, one of them, none of them having read the actual story) because they got their heartstrings tucked by coverage about it.
I have nothing to back it up but from personal experience most people do hate the idea of bad things happening to animals, it's just most of it is out of sight, out of mind. They don't think about where their steaks come from or, even if you'd point towards some monkey killing buisiness in the wild as per harambe, where the factory feed comes from. Doesn't really matter whether they're aware of the links there or not, it's just how things is.
But then Harambe isn't how things is, there's not supposed to be children in gorilla enclosures. Of course, the question as to whether there should even be gorilla enclosures also doesn't play - that's just how things is - but the child in the gorilla enclosure is where their brain starts to connect "this was unnecessary", because it's easily solved, Cincinnati Zoo just has to put up some bigger fences or whatever, job's done, animal cruelty issue solved.
They're not actually concern trolling though. It's just typical conservative in-group out-group stuff again. Dogs are in, cats mostly, rescued or "rescued" animals most definitely, even when they're usually versions hunted for sport and/or factory farmed. On the latter I'm kind of unsure as to whether some notion of bootstrap plays into it.
Much like with everything else they just don't realize this in-group and out-group thing, albeit that's not even limited to actual chuds as per animals.
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They don't care about* squirrels*, they care about these two specific squirrels (or, well, one of them, none of them having read the actual story) because they got their heartstrings tucked by coverage about it.
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I have nothing to back it up but from personal experience most people do hate the idea of bad things happening to animals, it's just most of it is out of sight, out of mind. They don't think about where their steaks come from or, even if you'd point towards some monkey killing buisiness in the wild as per harambe, where the factory feed comes from. Doesn't really matter whether they're aware of the links there or not, it's just how things is.
But then Harambe isn't how things is, there's not supposed to be children in gorilla enclosures. Of course, the question as to whether there should even be gorilla enclosures also doesn't play - that's just how things is - but the child in the gorilla enclosure is where their brain starts to connect "this was unnecessary", because it's easily solved, Cincinnati Zoo just has to put up some bigger fences or whatever, job's done, animal cruelty issue solved.