Dian Fossey

[hooplala]

I recall someone recently saying something about Diane Fossey having done more harm than good... I don't know a lot about her, except she apparently looked a lot like Ellen Ripley... can someone point me toward the bad stuff?

[hooplala]

Ooh, I just found something:

Six months before her murder, AP East Africa Correspondent Barry Shlachter quoted Fossey in one of her last interviews as saying that she was habituating gorillas only to whites because blacks were the poachers.

That's, um... specious reasoning, hm?

[hooplala]

Also:

They said Rwandans whom she suspected of poaching had been stripped and beaten with stinging nettles by Fossey, who removed their animist amulets, set fire to one villager's home and kidnapped their child, holding the little girl hostage for days.

Seems I may have answered my own question.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Also:

They said Rwandans whom she suspected of poaching had been stripped and beaten with stinging nettles by Fossey, who removed their animist amulets, set fire to one villager's home and kidnapped their child, holding the little girl hostage for days.

Seems I may have answered my own question.

She was only trying to have a good time.

[hooplala]

Also:

They said Rwandans whom she suspected of poaching had been stripped and beaten with stinging nettles by Fossey, who removed their animist amulets, set fire to one villager's home and kidnapped their child, holding the little girl hostage for days.

Seems I may have answered my own question.

She was only trying to have a good time.

It was really the kidnapping I was highlighting. I mean, if I had to justify every village I've burned down...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Also:

They said Rwandans whom she suspected of poaching had been stripped and beaten with stinging nettles by Fossey, who removed their animist amulets, set fire to one villager's home and kidnapped their child, holding the little girl hostage for days.

Seems I may have answered my own question.

She was only trying to have a good time.

It was really the kidnapping I was highlighting. I mean, if I had to justify every village I've burned down...

Stoney Creek is okay.  Everyone understood that one.

Also, Orangeville.  Everyone hated those fuckers.

[hooplala]

Also:

They said Rwandans whom she suspected of poaching had been stripped and beaten with stinging nettles by Fossey, who removed their animist amulets, set fire to one villager's home and kidnapped their child, holding the little girl hostage for days.

Seems I may have answered my own question.

She was only trying to have a good time.

It was really the kidnapping I was highlighting. I mean, if I had to justify every village I've burned down...

Stoney Creek is okay.  Everyone understood that one.

Also, Orangeville.  Everyone hated those fuckers.

Next up... Brantford!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Also:

They said Rwandans whom she suspected of poaching had been stripped and beaten with stinging nettles by Fossey, who removed their animist amulets, set fire to one villager's home and kidnapped their child, holding the little girl hostage for days.

Seems I may have answered my own question.

She was only trying to have a good time.

It was really the kidnapping I was highlighting. I mean, if I had to justify every village I've burned down...

Stoney Creek is okay.  Everyone understood that one.

Also, Orangeville.  Everyone hated those fuckers.

Next up... Brantford!

Very yes.  Make sure all the bones are properly crushed, or it doesn't count.

[hooplala]

Also:

They said Rwandans whom she suspected of poaching had been stripped and beaten with stinging nettles by Fossey, who removed their animist amulets, set fire to one villager's home and kidnapped their child, holding the little girl hostage for days.

Seems I may have answered my own question.

She was only trying to have a good time.

It was really the kidnapping I was highlighting. I mean, if I had to justify every village I've burned down...

Stoney Creek is okay.  Everyone understood that one.

Also, Orangeville.  Everyone hated those fuckers.

Next up... Brantford!

Very yes.  Make sure all the bones are properly crushed, or it doesn't count.

You think that's snow blowing down from Canada, folks?  Haha!  It's the ground bones of my foes* in Sudbury!






*everyone

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Also:

They said Rwandans whom she suspected of poaching had been stripped and beaten with stinging nettles by Fossey, who removed their animist amulets, set fire to one villager's home and kidnapped their child, holding the little girl hostage for days.

Seems I may have answered my own question.

She was only trying to have a good time.

It was really the kidnapping I was highlighting. I mean, if I had to justify every village I've burned down...

Stoney Creek is okay.  Everyone understood that one.

Also, Orangeville.  Everyone hated those fuckers.

Next up... Brantford!

Very yes.  Make sure all the bones are properly crushed, or it doesn't count.

You think that's snow blowing down from Canada, folks?  Haha!  It's the ground bones of my foes* in Sudbury!






*everyone

There are no people in Sudbury.  Just a gigantic nickel and mummified corpses.

[hooplala]

Also:

They said Rwandans whom she suspected of poaching had been stripped and beaten with stinging nettles by Fossey, who removed their animist amulets, set fire to one villager's home and kidnapped their child, holding the little girl hostage for days.

Seems I may have answered my own question.

She was only trying to have a good time.

It was really the kidnapping I was highlighting. I mean, if I had to justify every village I've burned down...

Stoney Creek is okay.  Everyone understood that one.

Also, Orangeville.  Everyone hated those fuckers.

Next up... Brantford!

Very yes.  Make sure all the bones are properly crushed, or it doesn't count.

You think that's snow blowing down from Canada, folks?  Haha!  It's the ground bones of my foes* in Sudbury!






*everyone

There are no people in Sudbury.  Just a gigantic nickel and mummified corpses.

There were.

Oh, there were.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The main thing she did was stir up a great deal of antagonism from regional villagers toward the movement to preserve the gorillas, and it's very likely that she caused many more killings than would have occurred if she had left well enough alone. Sapolsky wrote about her a bit.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The main thing she did was stir up a great deal of antagonism from regional villagers toward the movement to preserve the gorillas, and it's very likely that she caused many more killings than would have occurred if she had left well enough alone. Sapolsky wrote about her a bit.

Extremism always winds up like that.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Back off topic:  What is it about shitty little towns that put up huge Goddamn ridiculous monuments to stupid shit?  The giant nickel in Sudbury is almost as depressing as the big concrete cashew in Seguin.

[hooplala]

Back off topic:  What is it about shitty little towns that put up huge Goddamn ridiculous monuments to stupid shit?  The giant nickel in Sudbury is almost as depressing as the big concrete cashew in Seguin.

I think its the municipal version of a roadside attraction.  Except, without so much attraction.