• DonkeyStar@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I wrote a reenactment.

    “There’s a dangerous mother hippo in the area.”

    “Well, we’re here to see plants, not hippos. Should we cancel?”

    “Of course not. We’d have to give the money back. We’ll just stay away from it when we go to where it is in our tiny, flimsy boats.”

    “It’s right there. I’m going to take a picture instead of paddlAAAAAAAGH-“

    Some people watch horror movies and think, “Why don’t they just leave?” or “Why would they go there in the first place?” Others apparently start booking flights.

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      7 hours ago

      The article states that they did not engage the hippo and tried to stay away. They also never blamed the hippo for displaying their natural behavior by attacking them. Shit happens.

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        They were warned it was there and even spotted it themselves, yet drifted away from the group and were subsequently attacked by a protective mother.

        That’s deff not the hippos fault, that’s on whoever was captaining the canoe.

        Don’t fuck around near hippos.

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          Neither I nor the people who got attacked blamed the hippo. They were on a guided tour with other people and tried to avoid coming too close. I would say that you would expect to be relatively safe when being guided by people who deal with such situations regularly. Such things can just happen. I would not blame them for being too reckless

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        4 hours ago

        Am white and only privileged white people would be in this situation AND write so nonchalantly about it. Deal with it.

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          Nah this is a privilege thing, not a white thing. I know a lot of privileged people of every race and nationality, the idiocy transcends race.

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          Are you under the impression that saying “deal with it” will, as if by incantation, alter reality to make you correct?

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      7 hours ago

      If I was told there was a mother hippo fucking white people, I would have to get close enough to take a look.