132
Hundreds of whales slaughtered in Faroe Islands as annual cull turns sea blood red
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
132 points (100.0% liked)
World News
2191 readers
656 users here now
Rules:
Be a decent person.
No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, zionism/nazism, and so on.
Other Great Communities:
Rules
Be excellent to each other
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This is just me questioning 'culture' : I saw a video of an Israeli child, not more than 7 years old in one of those chat platforms that matches people around the world for 5 minutes chat, and she was matched with an adult that greeted her and said he is Palestinian. The child immediately punched the camera. Is this culture? Is there a difference between the whale killing and this? I think maybe the concept of culture being this unchangeable thing that transcends humanity and empathy should be questioned, specially in how society is evolving ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, unfortunately it is. But there's a difference between traditions and ingrained cultural racism.
Is there a difference between continuation of traditional practices of food sourcing and culturally acceptable racism? Yes, definitely. Does that make culling whales morally acceptable? Of course not.
I never said that, though I can see how what I said could be perceived that way.