Liberals seem to love Kaepernick. They are proud that he took a knee and disrespected the flag. They are so enamored by him that Nike picked him up as their spokesperson. So People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) decided to try and play off of that and make an ad honoring Kaepernick’s protest. But it did not go as planned as they offended the very people that praised Kaepernick and were quickly attacked for their insensitivity on Twitter.
“PETA claims their new animated commercial “inspired by Colin Kaepernick’s activism against racial inequity and systemic oppression” was supposed to air during the Super Bowl, but the NFL allegedly pressured Fox Sports to reject it.”
Peta decided to run their ad anyway this past Friday and quickly found out that it was a mistake.
“The group’s ad was lambasted by several people as stupid for the “kneeling” snake and fish, and deemed disrespectful to the United States by others. But where PETA received the most criticism was from social justice advocates accusing the group of tone-deafness for “appropriating” Kaepernick’s protest against racial injustice and attempting to equate it to the plight of animals.”
Watch The Ad Below.
There was a range of complaints from people angry that PETA would make this comparison to people upset that they would honor Kapernick.
Some felt it insulted Black Folks.
“It’s offensive that PETA would create any association between Black Lives Matter & animal rights. For as important as animal rights is, it’s simply boneheaded & tone deaf to fail to recognize that creating any perception of equivalency sets civil rights causes back for years,” Larry Middleton tweeted.
While others were angry that the PETA would think to waste this much money on an ad.
“Well I wont be donating my money to an organization that can afford a Super Bowl ad while dog and cat shelters can’t even afford kibble or office supplies, let alone space…,” JJBins99 commented.
And then there were people who just outright mocked the ad.
“Honestly…I thought it was going to be a toilet paper commercial at first and that’s why the animals were all squatting like people crapping in the forest,” Mindy Robinson posted.
They lucked out, the Twitter outcry would be exponentially worse had they been able to broadcast during the Super Bowl, which is unfortunate as they deserve it. PETA is supposedly all about the animals, but it seems they kill more than anyone else and then they have the gall to lash out at the meat industry when at least we all benefit from the death of those animals.
Peta and Krapernick are both full of shit
What an idiotic comparison! Spent a lot of money for a leftist bent commercial that pissed off most everyone for different reasons.
gawd is that stupid
Is that “People Eating Tasty Animals”? Whatever it is, it was stupid at best.
What a waste of money! How many cats & dogs would you have saved with all that cash!
Hahaha… I saw that ad and was wondering what the heck it was even talking about, animals have no allegiance to a country. Stupid Peta… People Eating Tasty Animals.
PETA kills animals. Their shelters have the highest kill rate of any other non-profit animal rights group. If you actually care about animals instead of throwing blood at fur coats and chaining yourself to processing plant conveyors, donate to a REAL group.
Your local shelter is the best bet, but if you can’t do that, the ASPCA is tolerable in its politics and good at its job.
APSCA would be better
PETA deserves to be closed down. Reprobates.
Wasted all that money on an ad when they could have given it to shelters. I sure won’t waste my money on peta.
Peta paid 5.6 million dollars just to piss people off? HA HA HA HA HA
It is extremely hard for anyone with a brain to feel sorry for pro athletes who whine about how they are treated. You are NOT required by any kind of law to paly sports. Go find a job where you feel like you are treated better…..and …..uh …..Good luck with that.
People also need to remember that PETA is not really about protecting animals. Their operatives were caught stealing dogs from a poor neighborhood, primarily Hispanic I believe, in Virginia and killing the dogs they stole from the yards a few years ago. PETA is not like the SPCA or Humane Society from all of the information I have read and seen.
More Proof . . . PETA has joined other Demnted-Dems in succumbing to Terminal TDS.
Kinda makes one want to donate to them so they can kill animals more efficiently.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/peta-finds-itself-on-receiving-end-of-others-anger.html
So, then disrespecting those who have given their lives in defense of your freedoms is showing respect for, who, exactly? And, it is true that those who gave their lives defending your freedom and your right to disagree did so without regard for their own lives, so, what are you giving for them? I would not call what you are doing “showing respect”. Kapernick, once you made your point you should have moved on from there.
Well, we know Kapershit’s reason for knelling to disrespect the flag and national Anthem was his way to be. trump Hater, and which we all know he is. To him it was his way of giving Trump the finger.
Soooo, it makes a good argument that the powers that be at Peta are also anti Trump.
I will no longer donate to Peta!
Yes, well don’t cha see, if all the innocent little furry wood creatures are kneeling for the national anthem, then it stands to reason that every commie Muslim who does the same, is just as innocent and cuddly and wholesome as a little white bunny rabbit…gimme a minute…I just threw up! I’m reminded of the 45 Communist Goals entered into the congressional record on January 10th, 1963 Appendix, pp A-34-A35…#13 “Do away with all loyalty oaths.” And I think this one applies #16 “Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.” These goals have been indoctrinating our people since then and almost all have been implemented to the point, that a full blown communist in Bernie Sanders is running for president and a whole bunch of political babies are supporting him.