Every fucking time a "leftist content creator" on Instagram speaks on veganism, there's always this "no ethical consumption under capitalism" shit. Good God, the mental gymnastics are insane, and the comments are full of carnists accusing vegans of ableism, classism, and racism. I can't fucking stand this anymore.
I'm not gonna type out a whole dunk of this shit, but I had to give at least a mini-rant about it because I'm pissed the fuck off now. They screech all day about how they're against so many bigoted, reactionary, and imperialist tendencies, but when it comes to speaking out against speciesism, they have to pull so much bullshit out of their ass to justify it.
I'm fucking mad, I'm tired, and I'm about to cry because animal rights are a very sensitive subject for me. Call me a baby, but I just find it so awful that people will try to justify such an inhumane, disgusting act like this.
Skyrim loading screen tip: if your argument sounds like something Vaush might say to justify possessing CSAM, your argument is probably, uhh, kinda shit.
Who would win: the wealth of freely-available information about the intersections of veganism with class, race, and disability at one's fingertips at any time, or the promise of a bucket of KFC?
There are barriers that keep me from yet wholly ending my use of animal products, barriers related to class and disability, so these people would be "talking about me"... But ffs to blame an inaccessible society on the people actually trying to change that society is just absolutely nonsensical. It's treating the weight of the institutions of capitalism subsidizing a cruel and unsustainable killing machine as equal to the weight of people challenging that system and "hurting feelings" in the process.
To call you a baby would be to call you untainted by society's teaching to endure excesses so long as excesses are sufferable, or to idly watch injustices as if one does not care.