For the Love of the Game

In Defense of Trophy Hunting

Conservatives have a suicidal tendency to frame their positions in the language of the leftist cultural hegemony.

“I’m okay with immigration, but they have to come legally.”

“I’m okay with LGBT stuff, just not in schools.”

“I’m pro-Second Amendment, but I think we should have background checks.”

As we all know, but after any statement immediately negates it. This is how you get ridiculous statements of how Martin Luther King (a rabid anti-White Marxist & adulterer) is a conservative hero; or the Lincoln (a man who murdered millions of his own countrymen for political gain) worship centered around how we “haven’t seen Democrats this angry since Republicans freed the slaves”; or the cliché that “Democrats are the real racists” (a term invented by Marxists to decry normal human behavior as evil when Whites do it).

These are all rhetorical tricks used by our enemies to keep conservatives on the back foot forever. The leftist gains of yesterday are a forever achievement of the unstoppable wave of progress, and to oppose this is to be a no-good, mean, fascist bigot.

While many on the New Right have been making excellent gains in a genuine rightward direction and are stepping over these leftist linguistic traps, the rot has traveled down the trunk in an insidious way. One such example is that found in an extremely right-wing-coded sport, hunting. Even in a sport that is consistently polled over 70% Republican and 90% White, these leftist tricks still have sway. The hunter is always portrayed in media as the mindless killer, usually dumb and racist, who seeks only to destroy everything he touches in order to satisfy his fragile ego. I recall how the hunter character in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom spends the whole movie taking a pair of pliers to every dinosaur’s teeth, maliciously pulling them out for his collection. Bambi is portrayed as fact even though fawns aren’t born in hunting season, so the idea of little Bambi being orphaned by a hunter is a myth as well.

But going even beyond your bog-standard media trope of what a hunter is, there is another angle that the media loves to portray as well: the evil trophy hunter. The topic gained international fame in 2015 when a lion named Cecil was shot by an American hunter in Zimbabwe. The narrative was that this evil man paid top dollar to poach a lion from the back of a Jeep in the middle of a game reserve.