Social Justice Warriors Issue Death Threats, Vandalize Property of Cat Sanctuary


The Blue Cat Cafe serves as a home to more than two hundred cats that are adoptable through the Humane Society. It’s an important part of the community. The owner cares for defenseless animals who would otherwise be on the street or dead. The protests are even endangering the lives of the cats.

“The vandalism and the mental anguish they’ve caused me and the cyber-bullying they do — it’s really out of control,” the owner told the Austin-American Statesman. “They show up with megaphones and they yell profanity; they send me emails with pictures of dead cats and pigs.”

The owner also said that she had received “multiple death threats…. from protesters who opposed the demolition of Jumpolin.”

The harassment kicked into high gear after vandals daubed an exterior wall of the property with the words, “Fuck you gentrified scum,” while also gluing the doors shut, trapping hundreds of cats and kittens inside the building. Another message that read “GET OUT” was spray painted on a separate wall.

“Can’t get into work. All the locks are glued shut. Cats are crying at the door,” the owner posted on Facebook.

The group behind the intimidation campaign – Defend Our Hoodz – has a Facebook page which is replete with racially disparaging remarks about the cafe owner. They claim she “violently appropriated” the land from the owners of the piñata store.

And all of this because the cafe sits on ‘tainted land’:

The vandals struck as a demonstration outside the cafe is planned for 6:30 p.m. Friday. As of 3:30 p.m., about 30 people who visited the Facebook event page titled “Picket! Haunt the Blue Cat Cafe” indicated they planned to attend.

“We will haunt the Blue Cat Cafe with another picket to mark one year since their opening and remind them and Austin to stay away from this tainted land,” the text on the page, created by “Defend our Hoodz” reads. “Blue Cat Cafe sits on land that was violently appropriated by Jordan French and Darius Fisher, two monsters who have terrorized the East Austin community with their demolition of Jumpolin. Come and celebrate an early Halloween — scaring gentrifiers is the way to celebrate the season! Wear masks, bring flashlights/headlamps and practice your ghastly moans.”

This has college activism written all over it. You can guarantee that some Austin college student is rallying up the community, using words like gentrification to build up momentum for something they don’t even understand. It’s like they prefer that such areas remain gang-infested and violent, so they attack anybody trying to make a difference. How’s that for activism?

 

Source: infowars.com, Statesman



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