Dwayne Johnson outrages people with trip to Aquarium
 

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Basically, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson outraged animal rights people when he posted some pictures with his family at an aquarium.

See the article here:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/695858...gram-aquarium/

It's always something...

Ah yes, the late 2010's, the era ruined by people pretending to be offended...

These people will always find something to get offended over, no matter how insignificant.

What do they think?

IT DOES'NT MATTER WHAT THEY THINK

People are allowed to be wrong without us giving them a larger platform on which to be louder about being wrong.

The Georgia Aquarium is AZA accredited.

So of all people who visit aquariums, zoos, etc. they're gonna point the finger at The Rock. For the record, aren't those places actually helping toe preserve a lot of species? Modern day zoos, for example, are no longer places where animals sit sadly inside cages. They try to emulate their natural habitats and best and give them decent roaming space.

It's not like he went to the circus or attended a bullfighting event.

An era of offended snowflakes continues.
**** them.

There really is no story lol. So he went to a Aquarium, big deal. It's really no different than a Zoo.

The world is turning into papenbrooks and its ****ing scary :lol:

Of course, people will get angry at Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Visiting wild animals that should be in the wild, not in a man made enclosure. Look at poor Lolita at the horrendous Miami Seaquarium, stuck in that tiny tank for 48 years and without seeing other orca since Hugo died in 1980.:( And making stupid tricks for naive people.

No. Zoos and aquariums are collection of animals. It will never be the same seeing them in those places. It's different and amazing see them in the wild. If we, humans, would protect animals' natural habitats, no zoos or aquariums will exist. We are not the only beings on this planet. Then according to you, living in a favela will emulate your comfortable house.

Instead of visiting those places, go to visit a National Park where you live. You will see wildlife in their natural habitat and after that visit you don't want to return to a zoo or an aquarium. I refuse to visit a zoo after I went to visit a National Park where I live.

So if I wanna see a lion, I gotta buy a plane ticket to Africa?

You are silly and incredibly naive! Zoos must exist within our world because the only way to actually get people to care about such things is if they can actually see it. The animals in zoos serve as the ambassadors for the remainder of their species in the wild. For some species they only exist within zoos thanks to zoos because their habitat is gone and they unfortunately faced extinction. I agree that we need to be better about education and taking care of the world we have left but do you actually think the majority of zoos aren’t trying to help with the education and forwarding of both animal and habitat preservation? Zoos certainly arent perfect but they are for the most part fighting the good fight.

Dwayne Johnson causes more outrage:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...folk-hero.html

Who knew he was this controversial?

Am I missing something? Is it illegal or racist or homophobic to go to a zoo and no-one told me??

Yes, you monster.

They are mad because he isn't black enough.

Coola's question should be, what's NOT racist and/or homophobic and/or sexist nowadays?

Funny thing is, if we were in 1997-1999 they'd probably let it slide, since The Rock seemed considerably darker skinned at the time. he probably just hit the tanning saloon often back in the day, I dunno.

He was also about 60lbs smaller and his skull was a completely different shape, and there's nothing suspicious about that at all. :lol:

Well his swelling can be explained with roids, but I've never heard of roids changing your skin tone/colour.

You're quoting the DailyMail and clickbait articles meant to enrage you, you're falling into the current advertisement strategy of writing baseless articles for clicks with the current polarization. Finding a few comments of some crazies for any specific thing is not that difficult online, it's not a real outrage, in this case the people being outraged are those over a FAKE outrage, can you not see the irony there?

The only thing offensive about the Rock going to a zoological institution is that he is given special treatment because he is an actor.

Myself or anyone here goes to a zoo and we cannot interact with or touch the animals (and rightfully so, I suppose). But the Rock goes to the zoo and he's petting whales and playing with sea lions. And the responsible zoo keepers let him do this because he is an actor.

But to find any other way to be upset about the Rock going to a zoological institution with his family is absolutely ridiculous.

Good points. It's ridiculous how he's allowed that, but can't say I'm jealous. You're not supposed to touch wild animals.

Doesn't seem like that good of bonus to compensate for being followed everywhere by paparazzi and having to think twice before making a public statement, though.

So?

As long as the animal isn't harmed, I don't really see any issues with people getting something extra visiting the zoo, be it friends or relatives of the zoo employees or celebrities.

My dad knows the guy who used to be in charge of the tigers and reptile section of the zoo where I live, and we had a family trip where our family friend let us inside the feeding area for the tigers used by employees and we got to be in the same room as the first baby tiger they had when it was up for check-up. And we got to hold various snakes that the zoo was safekeeping after being confiscated from smugglers, some jack wagon tried to smuggle a freaking anaconda and got caught and now we got pictures of my dad giving it kisses while it's draped over his shoulders.

I don't see how this is news. I see how this is an invitation for political hullabaloo, but not news.

I'm of the opinion that the less exposure these fringe weirdos get, the less dangerous they'll be.

That's kind of the quandary I think about often. There is pros and cons. On the one hand... ignore it? It proliferates and it becomes this roaring fire on the side of the freeway that everyone stops and gawks at, slowing down traffic for all. Shine a light on it just a little, laugh at it for what it is? I think it goes away a little quicker. Or at least makes for interesting conversation.

Look, the important thing is that we gotta get more people hating The Rock.

I don't think the reason is important. It's like Iraq; we can make up a reason later, the important thing is that we get this deal going RIGHT NOW because it's way past overdue, and because it's RIGHT.

The Rock isnt hateable though.

Oh, you. You're just not trying hard enough.

I've been hating him for over 20 years without a break and I'm not even half tired. In fact, once you commit to it, it gets easier.

Although it helps that he's just the sh*ts at f*cking eeeeeeeeeverything.

I find very little to hate about The Rock, he's too delightful

Sells like a sniper victim though:P

You're nto a wrestling fan. Every single wrestles gets hate from a significant amount of fans. And tbh, even though I don't hate The Rock, he could be rather annoying as a wrestler at times. Especially in 2001-2002.

Apparently in this day and age "outrage" is 5 people with an instagram complaining about something, meanwhile this is the first time Im hearing about it

...I think you misinterpreted what I said. I wasn't trying to sound condescending. I'm just saying that most of The Rock's detractors are usually wrestling fans. People who don't watch wrestling and thus aren't familiar with his wrestling career and character aren't usually aware of this.

The Rock as a wrestler did have some cringe worthy material and he oversold a lot of moves, but as far as the human being Dwayne Johnson goes? I got nothing against him.

I loved the Rock's wrestling days. I pretty much stopped watching when he left. WWE doesn't really work for me without guys like him around that are kind of... "in on the joke, too."

His movies are pretty hit or miss but he's always fun to watch. "Faster" is super underrated. Fantastic movie.

How long did you watch wrestling for? Most people who grew up watching the Attitude Era/Monday Night Wars called it quits when Rock and Austin left