Opinion by Allan McNew
Recently I saw a segment on a regional news program that cut straight to newer left feminist loony-ism: poaching of elephant and rhino tusks is entirely an expression of male testosterone and woke women are going to put an end to it.
I have some obvious information for the herein un-named animal activist / feminist on that program – it’s a very old tale about poverty, money, greed and power, and women figure into it too. I haven’t met a woman yet that was adverse to money (how else are they going to buy all those shoes), and there is an old saying, “no money, no honey”. The amount of money required for honey is dependent on personal wealth. Much, much less is required for threadbare subsistence communities as opposed to fat cat social activists who have the police chase the homeless they profess to champion away from their gated communities.
Figure in third world poverty at the bottom being exploited by insurgencies of all types scrounging cash for military weapons and/or unscrupulous middle men of illegal trade of any sort, artisans who carve ivory for a pittance and the money men who exploit them, and the extremely well heeled end market which will pay exorbitant prices for ivory trinkets.
If there wasn’t money in the game, there wouldn’t be all that poaching of endangered wild life. Testosterone only goes so far when it comes to working for nothing while there are other things to do to scratch a living when it’s hot outside the circle of shade around a tree. So, instead of embarking on yet another first world crusade to emasculate American men, why not brainstorm a way to take the profit out of third world poaching of ivory?
That might be too much work and not near the sadistic fun for that humorless pack of miserable, misandrist scolds with wildly inflated first world problems.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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