Earlier today a vegan made a post with a white supremacist dog whistle by satirizing a person who's people "have been eating dog for thousands of years". Another Indigenous person and I did our best to call out the white supremacist nature of the discussion, so the poster later edited the title to specifically reference European people, which may have been well intentioned but only served to gaslight us by making it look like we were over-reacting and looking to be offended.
I came here for the leftism, and stayed for the Trans Rights. I'm a 2-spirit, native leftist. I have myriad reasons why I may or may not choose or even have the choice of veganism and any moralizing or condescension that comes from white vegans is an extension of over 500 years of an imposition of an alien value system which is profoundly disconnected from this land and the plants and animals which are our blood relations.
Oh man. I have been gone from this site for a while, and I return to this kind of bullshit drama. I'm starting to remember why I left. No, being indigenous does not absolve you of moral culpability for your actions. If eating meat is wrong, it is wrong regardless of your culture. If eating meat is wrong because it is an enormous resource drain, then it does not stop being a resource drain because you're not white. If eating meat is wrong because animals are sentient creatures who feel pain and deserve compassion, this does not stop because the person doing it grew up in a culture where that is normalised. While vegan rhetoric may be problematic, and evoke racist imagery concerning chinese people in a discussion about dog meat, the idea that it is racist and shuts you out of the discussion when I say "Eating meat is murder" is quite frankly nonsense.