A 19-year-old Texan cheerleader has been the subject of an intense media debate, after posting cheerful photos of her next to hunted big game.
According to an article in New York Daily News, Kendall Jones lashed out at her detractors, claiming she's both a conservationist and a proud hunter.
Jones—who killed various game, including a lion, leopard, and rhino while on safari in Africa—defended her actions, citing former President Teddy Roosevelt as inspiration.
"[Roosevelt] was a hunter too, right? He killed the same species that hunters now chase today under a mound of anti-hunting pressure," wrote Jones. "Yet, how can it be possible that someone can love the earth, and take from the Earth in the name of conservation? For some folks, they'll never understand."
More than 200,000 have signed a Facebook petition to CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Jones's page.
Jones insists that by hunting big game she is actually helping to preserve "the future of the different species."
Should pages/photos of slayed animals be purged from Facebook, or would that violate a user's freedom of speech?
If you're getting a strange sense of deja vu right now, this is probably why.
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