re: PETA type article about Mike The Tiger

M. Jaynes
Lecturer (M.A., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
M. Jaynes teaches courses in twentieth century American fiction, adolescent literature, western humanities, rhetoric and composition, and developmental writing. His research interests include Animal Advocacy and Ethics, Ufology, the cult of the individual, the embraced rogue, experimental fiction, American fiction, and Tom Robbins. Recently, he has been examining western humanities through the lens of the human treatment of nonhuman animals and the analogous plight of nondominant humans and nonhuman animals as well as examining the oft ineffective rhetoric of the animal rights movement. He lectures on these topics across the country and his academic and creative writing has appeared in dozens of peer reviewed journals, nationally circulated magazines, newspapers, ejournals, and books including Animals' Voice Magazine, Farmhouse Magazine, Paragon Magazine, UFO Magazine, Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction, Alice Walker:Bloom's Critical Views, ABCnews.com, and many others.



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i wanna send him a picture of a chopped up animal

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i agree im gonna have to try and find some of me w/ a bunch of ducks we killed mabye even cleaning a deer; this will need to be done

I can't wait to take my son to his first LSU football game and the first place we'll stop....Mike's habitat. These fricking people have no idea. They have no idea how that animal makes so many kids' feel. Dipshits.

Mike actually came back and apologized for his comments against LSU. I actually have a little respect for him after reading his comment. Either way, he shouldn't have insulted LSU fans' intelligence.

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Why doesn't PETA get their celebrities interested in going after people who actually treat animals cruelly and not the ones whom have the animals best interest at heart."

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The same reason Brad Pitt, Horse Lipps, and Madonna adopt kids from 3rd world countries. As if there isnt enough kids from the USA who need parents, they choose to go over seas and do it. I guess because its the cool thing to do. How about Brad pitt meeting with the pres to discuss money raising ideas for New Orleans. what the frick was that?

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Slavery was once a grand tradition in this country as was racism and women refusing to leave abusive husbands.

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This entire article is "BLAH, BLAH, BLAH", but the statement above my post is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard. They obviously have writers that are in dire need of work on their staff.

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They think it is people's duty to protect the animals, forgetting the fact that we are animals too, and nature gives us the right to fricking destroy whatever species we feel like.

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Yes we are animals, but humans have, in my opinion, moved outside of nature. Many people have zero connection to the natural world, which is a shame and why many don't care much about the green spaces. But I will not say that we have a "natural right" to "fricking destroy whatever species we feel like," as you said.

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a live jaguar is the mascot of Southern University and A&M College

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they can't afford to maintain a live jaguar.

That tree guy is making it too easy:

Him:
One of the things that makes censorship such a powerful, and abusive, tool is that not only are a person’s words eliminated from public record but another person, for example, an editor, can come off looking like he has the upper hand and has done no wrong.
This is hardly what one would expect from a website that claims to be part of the struggle for peace and social justice.
The fact is, while someone may attempt to erase the public record of any wrong doing on their part, the truth of what was really written still stands and its removal is a weak substitute for personal responsibility.
Hope you enjoyed your beer.

Me:
Tree-

The lesson you should take here is not that censorship is bad but that you shouldn’t make wild ad hominen attacks on some random person expressing his/her opinion on what at the end of the day is a rather banal topic.

Him:
I did not make any “wild ad hominem” attacks. And since some of my comments have been deleted by the editor, the story remains incomplete for other readers.
The people who have commented here are not the regular commenters to this site. They are of inferior intellect and have nothing worthwhile to contribute.
My only regret was commenting at all on the fact that no university should have wild animals in captivity, hardly a banal topic. The fact that the other commenters are not capable of intelligent debate should not be my problem. If anything, I tried to help them by pointing out the error of their ways.