Our society laughs at something that isn’t funny. It’s suddenly become funny to Photoshop your face onto Harambe’s body while affectionately saying, “Dicks out for Harambe.” I don’t know how it happened but somehow, society has managed to take this tragedy and turn it into a meme. I didn’t agree with those who were blaming the child’s mother, but I was impressed that it seemed like our society was in agreement that a life lost was just that - a loss.īut now, if I hear Harambe’s name mentioned one more time, I might scream. I thought Harambe’s death would make people acknowledge that we are too quick to make life-or-death decisions. In May, when social media broke out in outraged discussions about the death of a gorilla in a Cincinnati zoo after a child fell in his enclosure, I was excited for discussion about whether humans are too quick to end the life of another, particularly a life in our care. It amazes me that society can remember a name, but so quickly forget why that name matters.
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