WHAT’S DRIVING THE OUTRAGE OVER CECIL THE LION? “It seems clear that Palmer has become a symbol of [fill in the blank] privilege. As such, he must be destroyed in protest of such privilege. Something tells me we wouldn’t be talking about this story but for the fact that it involves a man of Palmer’s status. It’s about him and the class of people he represents, not the lion,” Walter Hudson writes.

Spot on. And for the celebrities who doxxed him, it’s about guilt for having obtained an even higher level of wealth and privilege.

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