Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Here are Carlin's introductory words from his routine (below):

"I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't like words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms or euphemistic language."

Neither do we George.

George Carlin, who died a few days ago, was funny, trenchant and sobering on the culture of euphemism. What might he have done if he had known about the culture of euphemism in the animal-welfare/disposal industry? I don't see any way that even a comedic genius like Carlin could have made a comedy routine of labelling innocent animals "unadoptable" so that you can kill them without raising awkward questions from your gullible donators. Labelling animals unadoptable, as do most big animal-welfare societies, the ones with open surrender and paying animal-control/disposal contracts, is especially misleading and heart-breaking because it blames the speechless, powerless, terrified innocents for their own deaths by judging them guilty of the crime of being "unadoptable".

This "unadoptable" list, which is the standard in the animal-control/disposal industry, has the appearance to a reasonable person of being p.r. protection from accusations of killing to make space for more animals which might be easier to sell or won't cost any money to make sellable. That many of the animals killed this way have been made mentally and physically sick - and therefore "unadoptable" - by the very agency that uses the list, is especially perverted.

Picture this: Carlin in Las Vegas in front of a packed house describing how millions of cats are killed a year by the animal-welfare/public disposal industry because the "shelter" gave them colds. Is there any scope for humour in the use of the word "shelter" for places that annually sicken and kill millions of speechless, powerless sentient beings?

http://aaswatchdog.com/cgi-bin/watchdog.pl/noframes/read/19900