Just gonna reply to my own post and not delete since I’m not a coward.

I got this wrong, the author is actually POC and does have some genuine critiques with elements of the climate activist space in Germany—not US. Why was this posted in c/dunk tank?

With that said, the article itself has some disingenuous takes on the face of it, though I’m willing to be corrected. There’s this bait and switch in which promoting low or no meat diets is equivocated with neglecting the harm done by palm oil production. I absolutely agree that western activists can do much better jobs at highlighting where their corporations are causing harm through environmental degradation and violence against indigenous peoples, but the framing used was weird, claiming that vegans promoting a plant-based diet was neglecting leveling critiques at palm oil production.

There’s other things too, but the general trend is a fairly surface level critique when I know there’s more complex aspects to a lot of the issues raised. Also a degree of naïveté about how power is going to respond to genuine criticism— trust me, everyone is dismissed and sidelined if they target the sacred cows of capitalism