"Jensen deactivated her Facebook account, hidden her food truck, canceled her bookings..."

[Miles Archer]

Delinda Jensen, 60, of Wilkes-Barre, said she's received death threats and had to shut down her business after her post Monday night started going viral, sparking intense backlash both online and off.

Jensen wrote: "Yes I am jaded. Fifty nine meat eaters dead. How many animals will live because of this?" In a second comment, she used an expletive to say she didn't care about "carnists."

"Was it poorly written? Absolutely. Do I regret it? Yes. I am so sorry I wrote that," she said Thursday. "Meat eaters or not, no one deserves to die like that. I wasn't celebrating the death of those people."

***

Jensen has since deactivated her Facebook account, hidden her food truck and canceled her bookings, and installed a security camera at her home. Her son said people have driven by their home, shouting threats and obscenities, and they have called police several times out of fear for their safety.

http://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-shooting/vegan-biz-owner-sorry-for-post-about-las-vegas-meat-eaters_83543302

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

1. Reap the benefits of stupid comments

Not condoning threats to her but what an idiotic comment.

[Cicada]

16. Yes, vegetarians probably died also

She apparently thinks it is immoral to kill animals for food. Other people think it would be immoral to kill humans for food. But how do we know cannibalism is immoral but eating nonhuman animals is ok? Why are we so certain it’s ok to eat non humans but not ok to eat humans? We look back on slave owners and think they were immoral. They thought slavery was ethical. There is a good chance that 200 years from now people will look back on meat eaters and see them as even worse than slave owners. At least slave owners didn’t cut the slaves into pieces and eat them. Why is it ok to eat a dog or a sheep but not ok to eat a person?

Or Maybe we should reconsider the ban on cannibalism. Maybe those who eat meat are indeed ethical.

[Weekend Warrior]

30. We attempt to regulate meat production...

In a manner that makes it more efficient and holds to societal norms. There are many reasons to outlaw canibalism outside of morals. I find this to be one of the more faulty arguments people make. The only way it would hold validity is to ignore all that is around while focusing on the absurd.

[Laurian]

2. Hard to fathom that people don't THINK before posting shit on social media.

There are so many examples of these kinds of postings having bad consequences, but people keep doing it. Even if I had such thoughts (I don't!), I cannot imagine revealing them in such a public way.

Facebook and Twitter are certainly revealing some scary ugliness in our midst. Maybe we need to know what people actually think, but it is distressing.

[unblock]

8. of course more disturbing is how some can't let dumb internet posts remain just dumb internet posts

so she posted something stupid on the internet. respond on the internet that the post was stupid.

no need for death threats and drive-bys and hounding and harassing.

[FLPanhandle]

21. I disagree

When some Nazi's were caught online posting shit, some got hounded and fired from their jobs.

She is just as much as an ideological idiot as the Nazi's. Like the Nazi's, she believes "Anyone who doesn't agree with her belief system doesn't deserve sympathy and the world is better off with them dead" .

Like the Nazi's, she deserves to be outed and have to live with the consequences of her actions.

[unblock]

23. Insensitivity to the departed does not compare to naziism

Had she, say, advocated killing "carnists", that's another story.

[FLPanhandle]

24. She was beyond insensitivity

She viewed their deaths as a positive and "I don't give a fuck about carnists anymore".

Sounds like a Nazi type post to me.

[unblock]

25. It's horribly insensitive, but nothing more

There is zero excuse for death threats, etc

[chowder66]

28. Rec! nt

[Tavarious Jackson]

3. She didn't think before she posted

It's ugly but I do hope that some day in the future meat eating will be seen barbaric and archaic.

[Not Ruth]

5. How will you convince animals to stop eating meat?

[whathehell]

10. She doesn't think, period

at least with anything like "sanity".

[LuvLoogie]

19. More steak, bacon, chicken wings, lamb chops and fish boils for me!!!

[B2G]

33. I think the problem is she did. nt

[Not Ruth]

4. "How many animals will live because of this?"

Animals are not vegan, so possibly fewer animals will live because of this.

[CozyMystery]

15. People are animals, too.

[Caliman73]

22. yes we are.

It is something that people rarely acknowledge. We are possibly, the smartest and most capable animal on the planet at this time, but we are animals. We are omnivores. Now, we can certainly talk about industrial farming practices, waste, inhumane treatment of livestock, and many other bad practices that we engage in, but to make a blanket statement that people who eat meat are immoral is not something that will get you heard.

[Skittles]

6. horrible

strange how people assume what others simply going to a concert must vote for, eat, etc. Sick to want them killed for it.

[unblock]

7. i was about to post this question, how does she know what they ate?

i thought all we knew about them was that they were at a country music show...?

[whathehell]

13. She doesn't know squat..

and if any one saw the clips of these people, who they were, they''d

see that they were a surprisingly diverse group -- Not all white

and decidedly NOT just a "group of hillbillies listening to

hillbilly music" as one DUer derisively painted them.

[Skittles]

32. the woman is just plain hateful

[Miles Archer]

12. There are moments of opportunity, and moments in which silence is the best solution

This ended up being a Milo Yiannopoulos moment for her...I have no idea what she was thinking or why she felt these were appropriate remarks to make on social media (or maybe she simply felt there would be no backlash), but like all of us, she has a right to free speech. The public is going to respond. She might have felt that she was being witty and topical and outrageous...I don't know. It was the wrong thing to say at the wrong time, and while "death threats" are always an extreme reaction to words, that's how society rolls. There are certain things that you simply do not say unless you are fully prepared to deal with the response.

We are an angry, agitated, divided, often frightened nation that is unsure of the future. We keep hoping that "Republican leadership" will, at some point, "do the right thing." And we hope for that without a shred of evidence that they will. We have no reason for that hope, it is misplaced. We have career politicians who care only about their own agendas, the checks they receive from certain "special interest" groups.

She now realizes that this wasn't the best move on her part. She's closed the barn door after all of the livestock escaped. The next time she feels the need to express similar thoughts, she might remember this and reconsider. I believe in free speech, and I also believe our words have consequences.

[WinkyDink]

9. Freakin' nutcase. And anyway, her assumption is just that....ASS.

[DFW]

11. She should volunteer to give her background checking software to the FBI , NSA and CIA

I doubt even they could ascertain so quickly the eating habits of every single victim of the Las Vegas shooting.

[bluepen]

14. Her brain would work better if she ate some meat.

[Voltaire2]

18. i dont think fire and stupid should be fought

the same way.

[Cicada]

26. Or if she were a cannibal?

Some think cannibalism is unethical. Some think eating any animal is unethical.

Some would feel little sympathy for the death of cannibals because cannibals do something unethical. Many think Hannibal Lecter deserves the death penalty. She apparently feels little sympathy for the death of those who eat animals other than humans. Is that so different from those with little sympathy for the death oh Hannibal Lecter?

Her views are just a fairly reasonable generalized form of opposition to cannibalism.



Indeed, there is a reasonable view that she has a brain which is more logical than the brains of most people.

[bluepen]

37. Looks like we need to update Godwins Law to include Hannibal.

Thanks for the laughs. Amazing.

[Cicada]

38. Maybe we should count eating 1 animal like eating 3/5 of a human

Not quite so bad.

A couple hundred years ago many probably thought opposition to African slaves was crazy.

I would not be surprised if a couple hundred years from now people will be horrified that once people ate animals.

Maybe someone will start a new nation premised on All Are Equal but only later liberate farm animals.

That these thoughts seem odd is pretty odd.

[bluepen]

39. Why wait? Start now!

I prefer science over emotion but it’s not for everyone. (And no, I’m not going to debate settled science/history of human evolution. We get enough of that from climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers.) Good luck with everything.

[Orsino]

17. But Pat Robertson blames disasters on LGBTQ people and political opponents...

...and stays on television.

Money fixes everything.

[NightWatcher]

20. Sounds like PETA Employee of the Month material

She’d fit in well there.

[Fullduplexxx]

27. Plants are living things also

[Oneironaut]

29. Ohhhh the media is telling us what we should be outraged about again.

I suddenly feel the need to pick up a pitchfork and torch!

[Initech]

31. She'll have a nice job at Infowars, I guess.

[petronius]

34. Well, she seems nice.

Although I do think she's nicer than people who would send death threats, or actually track her down for a drive-by cursing. Those people really suck...

[madinmaryland]

35. ZOMG!!! Soylent green. IT'S PEOPLE!!!

[Motownman78]

36. Is she part of P.E.T.A?

People Eating Tasty Animals? For every animal she doesn't eat, I will eat 3.

[oberliner]

40. No need for all the vegan/vegetarian-trashing on this thread

She does not represent the entire community.

[TheFrenchRazor]

41. thank you. the responses here are as predictable as clockwork. some people are really just looking f

for an excuse to unload all their defensiveness against vegetarians/vegans.

[FLPanhandle]

45. No one is defensive against vegetarians/vegans

Vegetarians/Vegans are like people that don't believe in abortion.

Most make their moral choice privately. They don't try to convert/condemn others that abide by their personal choices.

Don't believe in abortion, don't have one. Don't believe in eating meat, don't eat it.

The minute people cross the line into trying to push their morality onto others is where people, rightly, push back.

No one cares if someone is a vegan. People care if others try to push their moral code onto others.

The "defensive" argument is the same B.S. tactic anti-abortionists use, don't stoop to their level.

[Motley13]

42. apparently alcohol is still on her menu

[Iggo]

43. "I wasn't celebrating the death of those people."

Bullshit.

[adigal]

44. Meanwhile, the POTUS threatens nuclear war on Twitter, and no one harasses him

it is a-ok for him to do that.

[Orrex]

46. Well, sometimes assholes reveal themselves as assholes.

And, thereafter, people treat them like the assholes they are.