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.

  • T_Doug [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    “I think there is a connection between … the way we treat animals and the way we treat people who are at the bottom of the hierarchy.”

    "Sentient beings … endure pain and torture as they are transformed into food for profit, food that generates disease in humans whose poverty compels them to rely on McDonald’s and KFC for nourishment."

    "The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds."

    Notoriously privileged and counter-revolutionary preacher of Veganism; Angela Davis.

    • camaron28 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      How it went:

      How it's going:

      https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/13/angela-davis-vote-joe-biden-candidate-who-can-be-m/