The Zombie Rights Campaign Blog

Bizarre Column Compares Zombies to Rats, Implies They Will Chew Through Your Power Cords

| April 1, 2012

I really don’t know what to make of some of the stuff we see in our email inboxes at the ZRC sometimes: Or, and this is most likely, there will be a zombie apocalypse and the zombies will chew through all the charger cords to all our electronic devices (these will clearly not be brain-sucking [...]

Shooting at Zombies Is Wrong, Whether Or Not They Actually Turn Out to Be Undead

| March 4, 2012

The Zombie Research Society folks had a cautionary tale on their blog recently: This news isn’t exactly new, but it’s one of our favorite stories in recent memory. A 22-year-old man in Colorado, Brandon Duke, was convicted of attempted murder after shooting at a local police officer trying to arrest him. At the time of [...]

CNN Blog Fearmongers About Zombies

| February 25, 2012

Another day, another pop-journalism story about the supposed menace posed by the peaceful Zombie Community: Look at you, all plump and fleshy, with a quickening pulse and body jam-packed with sweet meats. That brain of yours, with the scrumptious gray matter and thinking cap makes certain re-animated corpses crave a dining bib. So what are [...]

A Real Sign of the Maturity of Our Opponents

| February 17, 2012

You know how there’s a phase, perhaps quite lengthy, where kids become obsessed and fascinated by bodily functions, especially making crude jokes about them? Well, perhaps our enemies on the Anti-Zombie side of the Zombie Rights question are still children in the head as well as at heart, because look at the serious topics they [...]

io9 Has Gone Too Far This Time

| February 12, 2012

Given the return of ‘The Walking Dead’, io9 (our longtime foes) decided to solicit opinions on when it’s ‘okay’ to murder people for the supposedly heinous crime of being Undead: The Walking Dead returns tomorrow night in the wake of a moral dilemma: Should zombies be killed on sight, or quarantined as sick humans? We [...]

io9 is at It Again

| February 9, 2012

We’ve had more than a couple bones to pick with the io9 website here in the past at the ZRC, as they grossly misinform about the history of Anti-Zombie prejudice, compare Zombies to cancer, promote already-prominent Anti-Zombie filmmakers and so forth. Nevertheless it’s worth noting that they continue to this day in their quest to [...]

Boing Boing Again Editorializing Against the Undead, Zombie Family Sticker Edition

| January 20, 2012

Sometimes your so-called journalists just can’t resist a little Zombie bashing as they go about their day. Tragically, quite a few of these prejudiced scribes seem to work at Boing Boing, perhaps inspired by the bad example of Cory Doctorow, who can say. So when we were linked to a post about some Zombie Family [...]

‘Zombie Restaurants’? Really?

| December 29, 2011

Once again we find a journalist using ‘Zombie’ as a casual, and remarkably poorly-informed, insult: When OC-based Real Mex Restaurants, operator of Chevys, El Torrito, and Acapulco, filed for bankruptcy protection in October, it closed only 30 of its 156 locations. Sbarro, the Italian fast-food chain, shuttered just 31 of its 429 U.S. stores. This [...]

More Casual Zombie-Bashing from the Mainstream Media

| December 29, 2011

What does a roundup of new tech-lit books have to do with casual Zombie-bashing? Why not ask Kara Swisher? She seems to be a fan of Anti-Zombie prejudice, dropping little gems like: It’s funny that they, and also Hoffman, are using the hopelessly analog term “blueprint,” but I like the retro feel. No surprise, Thiel’s [...]

Why Zombies Supposedly Don’t Look Like Santa

| December 23, 2011

Another day, another thoughtless ZRS post to discuss. Here’s one for the holidays, sort of, entitled ‘Why Zombies Don’t Look Like Santa’: Since it’s commonly thought that a person’s hair and nails continue to grow after death, shouldn’t all male zombies have long beards? The short answer is: no. Despite popular belief, human hair and [...]