Since last week, it’s been impossible to escape the news of Kim Kardashian’s encounter with a mysterious “flour bomber” who doused her during the launch of her new fragrance in Los Angeles.
In case you missed it, you can check out the footage here:
Kim Kardashian was allegedly targeted because of her unrepentant love of fur.
I’m not sure what everyone is so shocked about. This brazen form of activism goes back ages. Its objective is to publicly shame the target. Gay activists have been glitter bombing anti-gay figures for years, and a pie in the face is the oldest trick in the book.
What is far more shocking, are the comments made by Ms. Kardashian’s sister, Khloe, who, when discussing the incident, stated, “I don’t condone violence and bullying and what happened last Thursday was just that.”
Is she kidding?
Either her moral universe is completely upside down, or she knows nothing about where the real violence and bullying occur in this story: on fur farms.
Take a look at this video Martha Stewart recently recorded:
After watching these images, who in their right mind would entertain Ms. Kardashian’s comments as anything but rubbish? I’m sure rabbits being skinned alive would instead beg for a dousing of flour. And as far as bullying, I don’t think there’s any question that these animals are terrorized mercilessly. When juxtaposed with reality, her words seem downright obscene.
Khloe Kardashian herself is fur free, yet she has defended her sister’s wearing of fur as a personal choice. But it certainly isn’t a victimless choice. And in pitting her sister’s views against that of the alleged flour bomber, she ignorantly leaves the most important party out of the discussion: the animals.
It takes on average 40 animals to make one fur coat. Not for warmth, not for survival – for vanity. I wonder how many it will take before the Kardashians realize it’s just wrong.
I do think that Kim should take her medicine and accept it for what it was but I do disapprove when elderly ladies who may have had fur coats years and/or bought them in thrift shops wear them genuinely for warmth as they can’t afford anything else; In this case they should not be targeted but anyone who courts the public eye and flaunts fur etc in the face of the public deserve everything they get.
As ethical vegans, we don’t have many ways we can say or show how strongly we feel, about the murder of these animals and the terror, pain and torture they experience before their deaths. All for the sake of human vanity.
The flour bombing done in this case, though irritating to the person who had it done to them-does not cause them actual pain—except in their minds, where they are forced to look at their behavior.
And by being forced to look at their behavior in regards to promoting the use of animal fur-they may feel some guilty emotional pain about the death of the animals they are wearing.
And that, my friends, is the point of all of this to begin with….
I fully support that point of view as being valid and I’d do it myself in some instances. I actually demonstrated against a fur coat manufacturer in England. However I remember an elderly neighbour who had a fur coat from 1930s that she would claim as fake “how can I as a pensioner afford a fur coat”. She was terrified at the thought that someone would throw paint etc at her. I couldn’t in a case like this attack an elderly lady.
Hi Jae, Good for you for demonstrating-that’s awesome!
I agree about the elderly people who wear old furs. I’d probably tell them that new man-made material is better at keeping people warm-but would understand if they simply didn’t have the money to replace their old coats.
The attention has to be on these vain, uncaring people with too much money who feed the fur industry.
Without them and without the designers who use fur in new clothing, there would be no need for these horrific killing farms.
you know, not that I think about it Kim isn’t really fauoms for anything escept her ass and sex tape which led to her family getting that show on E!, so she is virtually an unknown that now has her own fragrance. what a world we live in, huh?thios photo has to be photoshopped. no way in hell she can still have that ass with thoise toothpick legs (last pic i saw she still had the ass)