Figure Skater Johnny Weir Claims “Crazy Fur People” Issued Death Threats

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by Michael Parrish DuDell February 15, 2010
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Figure skater Johnny Weir is shaking in his “leather skates made of cow” after anti-fur activists allegedly threatened his life.

The controversy began when Weir wore a fur-trimmed outfit at last month’s U.S. Nationals and received tons of unwanted attention from animal advocates.

In a recent news conference, Weir told reporters, “There have been threats against me. Threats of harming me personally.”

Weir added that he’s an easy person to pick on because he’s “very open” and likes “fur and…things that come from dead animals.”

Here at the Razz, we’re SUPER DUPER against fur, but we’re also SUPER DUPER against violence — no matter which side of the issue one’s on. While we’re all for people publicly expressing concern over cruel fashion, we don’t think death threats are ever okay.

What do you think about this whole furry situation? Leave and comment and share your thoughts!


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  • Tomo

    I think it shouldn’t be up to anyone to make the choice for him. It’s his decison- sure, you can disagree with him, but I think people have over stepped a boundary.

    • http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ Whoever…

      I’m sorry but what about the choice of the animal who was tortured to death? Was (s)he (I never refer myself to animals as ‘it’ – it’s something that must change in the english language one and for all) given a choice? No!

      Please watch this documentary and maybe you’ll see things from a different perspective:
      http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9FD18926170ED901&search_query=earthlings

      Oh, and by the way, I’m (usually) not in favor of acts of violence…

      • Michael Parrish DuDell

        Sorry, Whoever. I feel for the animal and I work for their welfare, but violence is never okay. Ever.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=566480478 erin

    Of course threats of violence should never be made but this pansy needs to give the girly boots to some nice girl’s charity and grow a pair… (and not a pair of boots)

    real men don’t wear fur and he’s obviously not manly in the least.

    • Dgredy

      hahaha this is funny he is a pansy!! i love foxes and when i hear he was wearing snow fox!!!!!! i cant even say since violence is part of the topic here so better shut my mouth.. now i do have a question we are not ok to promoting violence to to people that support violence to animals??? i dont get that!!!

  • http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9FD18926170ED901&search_query=earthlings Whoever…

    I see your point and I (mostly) agree with you Michael but unfortunately things aren’t always black and white.

    Let me just tell you a little ‘story’:

    I volunteer during the weekends at the local animal shelter. We have nearly 600 animals and we try as much as possible to ‘responsibly’ give as many animals as we can for adoption.

    A couple weeks ago I went there as usual and I was told that during the week a couple who had adopted one of our dogs went there to return the animal because he had ‘showed up’ with an eye covered in blood and that he was of no use to them like this and therefore they wanted another animal!!
    The person in charge of the shelter (an old lady with a lot of courage) just had time to pull the dog inside and shut the door in their faces while insulting them!
    Fortunately our volunteer veterinary was there and she said that the eye was beyond treatment and she surgically ‘removed’ it.

    The ‘interesting’ thing is that the dog had no wounds around the eye, so he was not attacked by another animal nor wounded himself accidentally. What we believe that happened was that it were the owners who did this! (you have no idea what people are capable of!)
    Unfortunately in my country this kind of action is not punished by law because animals are legally still considered as ‘objects’…

    Moving on… we frequently have to disinfect the dog’s wound and you can not imagine how sweet and gentle the dog is. Surely the treatment is painful and yet he tries to lick us as if he is kissing us! I mean, here’s this dog who was abused and still he’s the sweetest thing to humans even after what those human scum bags did to him.

    (Un)fortunately I wasn’t there when those bastards returned the dog because I would have lost it!
    They didn’t even bother to take him to a vet. They just wanted to return him and take a ‘new’ dog as if they were returning a damaged object!

    Now tell me, how does one keep the temper when something like this happens? Yes Michael, violence is USUALLY not the best solution but there are times when violence is THE answer!

    And in case you’re wondering, things like this are not so uncommon as you might think.

    Therefore, I am 100% sure we’re not superior to animals at all and that if I ever have to be violent in order to save an animal I will be! I have no problem whatsoever with that!

    • Dgredy

      first you rock!!! i agree with you 200% i was reading about this animal group in european country who were able to close down a fur farm and also farm that would breed cats and dogs for animal testing.. and you know how they did it with treats and presure.. so yes sometimes violence is the only way to get point across… and i phisicly rescued my dog from hell , she was sick cold her skin was bleeting from a infection and it took lots of will power for me not do to something violent against this people…

  • http://www.antifursociety.org Rosa Close

    I am beginning to think that this guy never got any death threats, and that he may be in cahoots with the fur industry to throw mud over anti-fur activists. His arrogant, cold and uncaring attitude is what the fur industry looks for on people to publicize their bloody merchandize. This weak character has received attention from all over — on the news and alerts as if he were a important dignatary! What the hell is wrong with our society?

    I personally wouldn’t waste a pie on his worthless face.

    • Dgredy

      i know!! and i hope he did maybe if he is scared he would stop buying fur!!!

  • Taylor

    This post is not regarding the article above. Obviously there are people who abuse animals and that is wrong. Did you ever think about people hunt and raise animals for subsistence? My family does and I challenge anyone to say that there is something wrong with that. We grow all our own produce, shoot deer for meat, and raise sheep to sell their wool and for slaughter. The money we make from selling the sheep, growing ginger and hunting morels is our only source of income. We use that income to pay for electricity and other unavoidable costs. By the way, we draw our own water from our well and hang our clothes to dry. We live a sustainable and eco-friendly life that hurts no one. Find me something wrong in that.

    • Sarah

      It is great to grow your own produce and live an eco-friendly household, but the problem is that on a large scale free range or hunting is not sustainable. And if we are concerned about a realistic model for social justice this is important to consider.

      According to US and Canadian government sources, there are some 830,000 moose in Canada and, across all of North America, a similar number of elk and some 30 million deer. But this pales in comparison to the amount of factory farm animals North American’s eat. Over 100 million pigs and 32 million cattle are killed for food each year. To meet society’s demand with hunted meat would result in the total decimation of the moose, elk and deer within months. The figures are even worse for large birds existing in the wild, compared with the vast numbers of birds eaten from factory farms.

      Basically, if everyone started hunting deer or other animals it would quickly lead to an ecological disaster. A similar problem would occur if the billions of animals currently in factory farms were free range instead. We would have to cut down the forests to make room to keep them all. But by eating low on the food chain we can feed everyone in an ethical and fundamentally sustainable way.

  • Taylor

    By the way….get over it people. Not everyone has the same beliefs you do and unless you really believe that a human life is no more valuable than that of a fox, you should not be wishing Weir harm. One more thing on hunting; People need to understand that animals in the wild don’t die under sedation at a vet’s office. A wild animal will die a vicious or agonizing death. It will die either from a car, a predator, or starvation. A bullet/arrow, while certainly not painless, is often a much more “humane” way for an animal’s life to end. Also, let’s think about our safety for a minute here. State farm Insurance predicts 1 in 39 West Virginians will hit a deer within the next 12 months

    • Dgredy

      i didnt know red necks like u needed electricity! and there is a lot wrong from what you said! a fox is really important in its own world and to its family so please dont think because you are a “human” your life is more important because maybe it is not important to me. and bow hunting is bad in so many levels and killing an animal for fashion is never OK NEVER. and im sure your red neck room is decorated with the heads of every animal that cross your back yard. an the animals death should be up to nature not up to human brutality. and since your red neck ass is sitting in front of the computer that means PARTY IN THE FOREST!

      • Taylor

        Hahaha, I’ve never been called a red neck before! Just so you know I have no shoes, my sister is my wife, and I am constantly drunk on my moonshine! Please don’t tell me the life of a fox is equal to that of a human, that’s just nonsense. Is a fox’s life more important than your child’s? My “redneck room”, or my redneck house for that matter, doesn’t have a single head on the wall. Some antlers that sit on a shelf and I have a squirrel and a raccoon skull that I found on the ground. You never addressed my issue of the pain and agony animals feel when they die in the wild, all you said was, “it’s up to nature”. Did you not understand my explanation of how animals die in the wild? I mean, isn’t that what you’re about, reducing animal pain? Also, my red neck ass is sitting in front of a computer thanks to you paying for my Federal Pell Grant. I really enjoy college, thanks! Party in the forest?

      • Natasha

        Dgredy do you wear leather shoes? Do you or your family eat meat? Do you or your family drink milk or eat eggs?

        If you answer yes to any of the above then you wearing or eating a dead animal and I don’t believe that you can sit there on your mighty pedestal and comment on how this is wrong.
        I am a firm believer in NOT harming animals with the attention to just be aggressive but in the same breath I am not against killing animals for food.

        Taylor clearly states that he hunts deer to eat it, which I find no difference to the cow being killed for the pleasure of us “humans” eating steak.

        I feel empathy for the dog in whoever’s story because to me that is wrong. If you choose in your life to have a pet (which btw some people view as animal cruelty as well) then you treat them as an addition to you family.

        I feel that people are a walking contradiction and need to stick with one thing. If you love animals so much to start calling someone a redneck because they hunt for their food, then you and your family should not eat meat (take a look at how non free-range animals are kept), don’t drink milk, don’t eat eggs (potential life) and don’t wear leather.

  • Dgredy

    TAYLOR:
    A Foxe’s life is not more important then my child’s and will safe my child before I will safe a fox but that’s because I love my child and my instinct tells me to save my child no matter what, and if it was between my child and yours I will still save my child over yours… so does that mean that my child’s life is important than your child’s life? No we are all important in our own world and animals deserve respect
    We move into the animal’s habitat all the time, and when they start being a problem to us we start making shit up like: well (feel free to add the red neck accent here) we are gonna have to start killing some animals cuz they are gonna die anyway ya know starvation, cars etc.. so why not we just get are arrows and kill some animals make sure ya’ll bring your kids and don’t matter if jr. hits the animal in the leg with the arrow is better then a predator anyways . Hunting for sport is barbaric for survival I might understand it but like I said already killing for fun or fashion is never ok. And this guy Weir is a useless to society (he came in 6th place btw) haha funny. So Taylor I’m sure you love your life and your wife/sister (hope you’re lying) just have love for our wild and not so wild friends they started getting in our way whe we got in theirs. Oh and about animals suffering in the while, we all suffer; humans get sick and starve all the time.. should we kill them so they don’t suffer any more??

  • http://Pattyshenker.com Patty Shenker

    There is really no excuse for wearing fur but there is also no excuse for written violence towards people who are selfish and stupid enough to wear it. The violence that we abhor in the fur industry is wrong but we should not fight back with violent words and threats. I understand your anger, i feel it too, but attacking people will never get them to change their minds. In fact, it will propel them to do it more. Use your compassion and sensitivity and facts to try and educate people and leave it at that! Putting people on the defensive never works. So to J-Lo , Brooke, Karl and this skater- I ask you to learn the facts, see a video of this violent, unnecessary trade and open your heart to those who suffer for your vanity. Your fur shows you support violence, trappings, clubbings, anal electrocutions, and skinning sentient beings while they are alive. How can you feel pretty or sexy with that kind of violence on your back? Your furs don’t prove you’re rich- or successful; just cruel, selfish and violent!

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