• German town stops playing nursery rhyme after complaint from vegan
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[video=youtube;oz--4Jmnr1w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz--4Jmnr1w[/video] [QUOTE]A town mayor granted relief to a local vegan woman who was offended by the lyrics of a nursery rhyme played multiple times a day. The fact the version of the song contained no vocals was no consolation. A vegan woman's complaints about a famous nursery rhyme resulted in a German town removing the song from the rotation in the town hall's belfry, local media reported on Wednesday. The 19th-century children's song "Fox, You've Stolen the Goose" included the offending lines: "Fox, you've stolen the goose. Give it back! Give it back! Or the hunter will get you with his gun." The Limburg version of the song, however, was purely instrumental. An unnamed vegan woman who worked within earshot of the mechanical carillon complained to the mayor of Limburg. Town spokesman Johannes Laubach said the mayor, who was reportedly friendly with the woman, had temporarily granted her a reprieve. "It's time to go easy on the goose and exchange the pieces of music," said Marius Hahn, who managed the town hall. "We have 15 pieces in our repertoire, most of them German folk songs." The "Frankfurter Neue Presse" newspaper reported the woman was distressed by being reminded of the song's lyrics - "the hunter's going to get you with his gun," rather than by the fox's theft of the goose.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.dw.com/en/german-town-stops-playing-nursery-rhyme-after-complaint-from-vegan/a-37479770[/url]
Well I get her, geese are assholes.
Seriously? The fact a hunter is going to shoot a thieving fox if he steals more geese to eat is a decent moral of "don't steal stuff". This shouldn't be stopped being played. Especially if it had [U]no lines during the 'offending section' [/U]
What's the offensive part? How's anything here related to veganism?
I wish my complaints about people threatened with imprisonment for not paying the state biased tv and radio stations would be as much of a concern as being offended by a song.
[QUOTE=Talishmar;51800715]What's the offensive part? How's anything here related to veganism?[/QUOTE] just the fact that it has to do with animals. yes it's a stretch, and yes its completely ridiculous that the person complained and that a township stopped something because of said complaint. what does the song have to do with veganism? nothing, besides the fox kidnapping the goose for food. maybe the vegan wants no animals to eat other animals - which makes it even more ridiculous
This is my problem with a lot of vegans. I, as well as everybody else, do not give a fuck if you choose to go vegan. It's your body, your life, you're free to do whatever you want with it. However, I see so many vegans tell meat-eaters that we're horrible people and that by eating meat we support animal abuse, etc. They always force their views on us and that's where I draw the line.
I just can't force myself to get mad about people getting mad over trivial shit like this who cares, but also [I]who cares[/I]? why is this worthy of consideration? maybe because it makes me ask that question?
Anyone who projects their view on others without being asked to do so is an asshole. It just happens that assholes are attracted to the thought of being vegan. Not one vegan I have met has never not tried to shoehorn into conversation that they are infact, a vegan.
[QUOTE=Tasm;51801434]Anyone who projects their view on others without being asked to do so is an asshole.[/QUOTE] So you should stay quiet until someone asks your opinion? So if i dislike something and think it should change i can't actually say anything because then I'm automatically an asshole? Or does that just go for people that you disagree with? Put your personal experiences aside and don't judge people you don't know and situations you only know by a paragraph of news reporting so harshly just because it conforms to your prejudices. Let's put this into perspective, the towns mayor (population of about 35000), temporarily, removed one out of 33 one-minute long instrumental pieces from the towns city hall belltower, as a gesture of good will in the spirit of the currently ongoing Carnival, an act that according to him took a grand total of five minutes. [quote]"Behind this is not an ideological motive, but it is a temporary grace period for a woman working in the immediate vicinity of the town hall and thus hears the chimes every day - and is annoyed about the song," "Die Welt" newspaper quoted Laubach as saying.[/quote] The song is basically a metaphor that discourages thievery by threat of bloody murder, graphically describing a fox as getting "stained by red ink, and then you are dead". You can guess why it might be upsetting for a person that cares about animal welfare to be reminded of this image each day, lyrics or not, because she works in the vicinity. People are using this story to project their anti-vegan, anti-left and anti-government prejudices and fears onto something completely banal and unimportant, because they just read a sensationalist headline as "dirty liberal vegan tries to erase piece of culture from existence in order to force her outrageous fringe ideology on civilization, co-conspirators in government collaborate" or whatever else fits into their own filter bubble narrative. Especially considering there is also a freshly started investigation into alleged possession of child pornography by a member of the local diocese that apparently far less people can muster the same kind of outrage and hatred for. [url]http://www.dw.com/en/limburg-catholic-diocese-suspends-employee-after-child-porn-probe/a-37471829[/url]
Germany, go from conquering europe to... losing to vegans.
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