10/5/2014, 5:52 pm
I've been hopeful that it wouldn't happen - hopeful that the hate mongers would somehow sate their yearning to destroy all that is different from themselves. But alas, my hopes were dashed forever by an admirer's email. I suppose it was only a matter of time before they got around to the order Rodentia. Yes, comrades, your fuzzy little friend and confidant Captain Craptek - and my kin around the globe - are now in mortal danger! And what manner of danger might that be? Who could possibly consider yours truly a threat to human survival or future world order?
Human supremacists and other far-right extremists are engaging in a growing number of violent assaults against legal and illegal immigrant rodents, and those perceived to be immigrants, while singling out all eastern gray squirrels as potential targets - this, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League's Rodent Division - Rodent Watch. (ADLRDRW)
The most open displays of rodent hate speech began recently in the UK. During preparation for a food festival in Gloucestershire this weekend, hate filled limeys called on their countrymen to kill and eat the invading "free range chickens of the trees". As if their insatiable appetite for kangaroo, ostrich, camel and other exotic meat wasn't enough, the carnivorous British savages are now demanding gray squirrel burgers with their tea and crumpets!
The hate mongers smear campaign has spread false and misleading claims of an “invasion” of undocumented squirrels to the UK in the late 19th century. Hateful Facebook and Twitter comments flooded the Internet: “they strip the bark off trees and pose a threat to native birds - the filthy, disease ridden mongrels murdered all our red squirrels the minute they arrived from America - they are a pest, they are in abundance and there is a food source to be had there. I think it might make a nice cheeseburger.”
A lone group of animal rights advocates stands firmly opposed to the British teabaggers, skinheads, and hate mongers growing call for mass extermination of the “invader squirrels”. In a defiant rebuttal, Rodent Watch chief council Sir Chip Rodere issued the following statement regarding a recently published report:
"It is time to shine the spotlight on those who have seized upon the immigration debate as an opportunity to advance their agenda of hate, bigotry and human supremacy. This report reminds us that there is a direct connection between the national policy debate and the atmosphere surrounding the daily lives of immigrant rodents. Extremist groups are seeking to exploit the flow of foreign squirrels into this country to spread a message of xenophobia, to promote hateful stereotypes and to incite bigotry and violence against Amero-Anglo gray squirrels, regardless of their status as citizens."
“Aside from racist rhetoric against gray squirrels, human supremacists also have been urging each other and humans as a whole to "fight back" against the perceived "invasion" of the U.K. by organizing explicitly anti-immigration counter-protests and events. The Rodent Watch report notes, for example, that Human Revolution, a Coleford based neo-Nazi group, asked its followers to participate in a national "Anti-Invasion Day" in November in response to pro-immigrant marches also planned for that day.”
