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.
They literally just throw darts at a board about what -ism veganism is to justify their habits. It's all post-hoc justifications to avoid doing self-crit or changing their behavior, it's meaningless nonsense. You can twist basically any two concepts together if you're motivated enough and don't care about whether it's remotely grounded in reality or reason. It's literally no different from transphobes trying to justify their positions by coming up with convoluted scenarios that pit trans rights against the rights of cis women, or people like Dave Chapelle trying to characterize being trans as a white thing. Those types of "arguments" categorically deserve nothing but PPB. I absolutely detest the weaponizing of language intended to oppose bigotry used to justify awful positions, and if people did this in any other context they'd rightfully be dunked on.