The Animal rights group PETA have asked the company that make the Warhammer games to remove pelt from their miniatures.
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2017/01/peta-asks-gw-toremove-fur-grimdark.html
The ridiculous request has been meet with laughter (here is the discussion on PETA's own website ) as the Warhammer 40,000 game is played in a rather dystopian sci fi-universe, described in the original rulebook like this:
"For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, and for whom blood is drunk and flesh eaten. Human blood and human flesh - the stuff of which the imperium is made."
and
"There is no time for peace. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only WAR."
Worrying about the bad influence of sculpted pelt in lead and plastic miniatures, seem a bit crazy when considering the same miniatures also wear severed heads and sometimes even human pelt!
On a more solemn note: PETA is not the only organisation that feel they should stop evil even before it has been thought. The idea that it is somehow necessary to control other peoples minds is spreading like a wildfire, both on the left and right of the political spectrum.
Sadly I have this feeling that the further we move away from 1939-1945 in time the more this mentality gain ground. PETA's request is just a symptom of something far more chilling.
Sources:
Image of Space Wolf hero with wolf fur. Found here.
I think there are bigger issues they could worry about. I think most of us have no problem distinguishing between reality and fantasy. Most people have some animal skin clothing or footwear anyway, including me and I'm a veggie.
I don't know if it's just about control, but I don't know much about the PETA organisation. I do think that people should be taught to appreciate animals more and not just treat them as a resource. There's a hypocrisy in the love of pets and neglect of farm animals.
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Of course there are more worthy goals, and as far as I know PETA is rather extreme. But considering how much extremism has become a public topic these last 10 years, this is just a silly example of something that actually do worry me. That the battle for the soul has returned everywhere. Are Muslims allowed to dance? are you unpatriotic? Should we censor books?
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It's an example of that some of the press like to call 'political correctness gone mad!'. I think we should all care about the world we live in, but I don't know where society is going these days. I believe in personal freedom, as long as you don't negatively affect others.
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Yes, I think that there is this wrong understanding of language. Words, images etc. belong to the realm of the hypothetical, and it is wrong to assume that using special words will lead to special actions. Calling Holocaust sad does not lead to holocaust denial - That is to tip the principle of cause and effect up-side down. Talking weakly about the holocaust might reveal some underlying intentions and world-views - but removing the word sad does not remove the reason it was used in the way it was in the first place.
So called political correctness and all the similar totalitarian movements are treating words like religious people do. As if they where magic influencing the world. Causality in reverse.
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It's also worrying that they didn't notice that PETA is a little close to PITA. Perhaps they really don't want people to take them seriously.
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Haha! yes, they might be like the serial killer who wants to be caught.
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I was thinking more controlled-opposition
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A lot of work goes into making the original model from which the dies are painstakingly made. There is no way to just "remove" the pelts. It is not autocad or paintshop where you can just erase a layer. You have to do the entire process over.
Basically, PETA comes in and asks, politely, "would you mind taking all of the work you did last year and throw it away? It shouldn't be much trouble, right?"
PETA really is an evil group.
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