Because the removal of the tusks leads to death anyway. Even a broken tusk can lead to death for an Elephant through serious infection. Also the base of the tusk is embedded in the Elephant’s skull. Fun facts, but depressing thoughts.
We have been told that by the left yes. According to Vox, Slate, Buzzfeed, and Vice to name a few racism comes from power and since minorities are not in power therefore they cannot ever be as racist as a white person.
If one starts digging into the wonderful world of worshippers of intersectionality and systemic racism which dominates the campus scene, you find out quick what the’re talking about. Groups are ranked by their oppression level “White Straight Male” bottom, the top would look something like this “Gender-fluid Armenian Muslim trans-sexual otherkin disabled femenist”.
Also true. But sickeningly, many poachers do actually sedate them with darts, remove their tusks, and then they awaken and slowly die an agonizing death as a result. It is pretty disgusting.