It's both that and the fact that this take is stupid and racist. Drawing an equivalence between the nigh-insurmountable trauma imposed upon POC and communities through the insanely brutal history of slavery that weighs them down to this day with both structural and spiritual challenge to a morally wrong but entirely incomparable industry of growing and selling animals for food is utterly disgusting. No, because pigs were able to recognize food and basic patterns with the same efficiency as a baseline three-year-old does not make them equivalent to humans whatsoever--adding in downplaying of the utter trauma inflicted by slavery through this comparison only worsens this garbage take.
I was just posting a baby-step to that, because there is so much work to even acknowledge directly racist posters were racist, so I didn't even want to open that more conceptual can of worms.
And even then when some people were finally responding to my posts with stuff like "oh you and your people don't see dogs as equals, whatever, you're missing the point", despite me repeatedly saying my people view animals/humans/plants as equals and this understanding underpins why we would eat and use dog without qualms .
Then somehow I am called a reactionary, moralising idealist when that is exactly how many could label veganism and the specific sort of tone-deaf examples of it being posted yesterday.
It's both that and the fact that this take is stupid and racist. Drawing an equivalence between the nigh-insurmountable trauma imposed upon POC and communities through the insanely brutal history of slavery that weighs them down to this day with both structural and spiritual challenge to a morally wrong but entirely incomparable industry of growing and selling animals for food is utterly disgusting. No, because pigs were able to recognize food and basic patterns with the same efficiency as a baseline three-year-old does not make them equivalent to humans whatsoever--adding in downplaying of the utter trauma inflicted by slavery through this comparison only worsens this garbage take.
Honestly, yes to all of this too.
I was just posting a baby-step to that, because there is so much work to even acknowledge directly racist posters were racist, so I didn't even want to open that more conceptual can of worms.
And even then when some people were finally responding to my posts with stuff like "oh you and your people don't see dogs as equals, whatever, you're missing the point", despite me repeatedly saying my people view animals/humans/plants as equals and this understanding underpins why we would eat and use dog without qualms .
Then somehow I am called a reactionary, moralising idealist when that is exactly how many could label veganism and the specific sort of tone-deaf examples of it being posted yesterday.