If some primitives want to hunt whales in a traditionally sustainable manner I don't have a problem with it.
I've had hundreds of these "primitives" as you offensively refer to them in my undergraduate and graduate university classes. They are no different from you and me other than being looked upon as an inferior class of humans by racists like you.
Your ignorance of indigenous hunts in Alaska is glaring, and is more fully mis-stated by
Andrew Wiggin:
My own perception of this is that there are several indiginous peoples who have an exemption that allows them to retain an aspect of their culture, and they're openly doing some small scale whaling, using indiginous tools, as an ongoing living history reenactment. They're being honest about it being a cultural and living history thing. What the japanese are doing is pretending that there's some pressing critical reason they need to know the average body weight of a minke whale to the ninth decimal place, and thus calling weighing out the whale steaks 'research', while clearly doing the whole thing because whale steak is expensive and therefore profitable
First of all, there was no exemption made for Alaska natives. The history is that the IWC placed a complete moratorium on whale hunting, and the Alaska natives told them to **** off, forming their own Eskimo Whaling Commission, and killed them anyway. There is a long history of the natives doing this, stretching back to a case in 1961 when a native villager was cited for shooting a duck in contravention of the migratory waterfowl treaty. Immediatly afterwards, 138 other Barrow natives shot ducks and brought them in to the fish and game office, daring them to arrest them.
Edited by LashL:
Edited breach of Rule 10.
The former chair of this Eskimo Whaling Commission, George Ahmaogak, was just sentenced to 30 years in prison for various financial crimes. You have people here who are going to do whatever they please, the law be damned, and what they have forced the IWC to do is either imprison whole villages or let them do what they want.
The irony is that your heroes are lawbreakers claiming to protect the whales, yet you side with the natives who were lawbreakers that were killing them.
The reason why the natives use the skin boats for
first strike is that the whales run from the sound of an outboard motor, and because of the flexibility of the skin boats. They don't pound the waves like an inflexible boat so they are far stealthier. They are choosing the most EFFECTIVE hunting technology, not some stupid living history thing. God what paternalistic crap! They shoot caribou in the head while crossing rivers, bash swans on the head while they are moulting, etc. - which again has to do with efficiency and not an idiotic "living history" meme. Reading this stuff is revolting.
What this proves is how people make up total crap - and its pretty racist, paternalistic crap too - out of complete ignorance in order to support their irrational positions.
