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.

  • Jerma_sucks [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    more pressing concerns, like the lack of human rights in the US and elsewhere, is kinda privileged

    "It's privileged to care about subhuman lives" this website is dumb af lmao

    Don’t work too hard to fix the flaws in a system that needs to be removed entirely.

    Dengists: "actually no workers ever skin racoon dogs alive because that's not efficient profitable enterprise praxis"

    • Parzivus [any]
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      4 years ago

      “It’s privileged to care about subhuman lives” this website is dumb af lmao

      Being vegan is fine; morally correct, even. Spending your time advocating for animals when that time could be devoted to better things is bad. Yes, humans are more important than any other animal. That should not be a hot take.