[–] -2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The phrase "lived in a different time" is whitewashing. It's asking everyone to ignore the evil shit that a person did.

I’m curious though who exactly you’re calling a “terrible person,”

The person who chose to attack a tiger with a whip, knowing that it was cruelty to animals.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    Stark lived in a different time, though

    Don't try to white wash terrible people. Even in those times they knew it was animal abuse.

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    Bloody Ruts In Bangor Me 6,000 people were watching the wild animals in the circus. Seven tigers, as docile as 30 year old cab horses, were lounging and limping around a ring where a woman stood, telling them nonchalantly when to stop and go. One lazy, spavined creature growled at the woman with perfunctory rage. Then he and another tiger pounced upon her and lay on top of her biting the woman with their yellow teeth and slapping her with huge limber paws that left two-inch grooves on her arms and bloody ruts across her face. Almost before the people in the audience had time to scream, the lion tamer came over from the next ring and rescued the lady from the tigers.
    She was taken to a hospital to recover from her wounds, while the 6,000 people jabbered with alarm and the tigers were led out of the arena to their cages, looking less decrepit now and licking their muzzles with junglar ferocity. The history of the lady was made public after the accident. She was Mabel Stark once the chief ornament of Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey "cat acts." In these she allowed herself to be embraced by a tiger something no other woman had ever dared to do. When the Ringling circus gave up wild animal acts because spectators often suspected cruelty to the animals , Mabel Stark was compelled to perform far less hazardous feats, such as descending from a synthetic fire at the roof of the big top by parachute mounted on a horse. Finding this trick too monotonous she had recently returned to her earlier specialty. When she regained the ability to speak after the Bangor incident Mabel Stark assured her friends that she had no intention of giving up her "cat acts."

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