I was semi-active in some animal liberation circles and the amount of Zionists and “centrists” (“noo don’t cut XYZ off, they are a good activist, can’t we put politics aside???”) is disgusting. But while it has its heart in the right place opposing animal commodification, vegan activism has always been thoroughly lib, so not exactly surprising.
The first big-ish vegan YouTuber I stumbled across turned out to be misogynistic and transphobic. Like, way more than the average Westerner. It was kinda jarring after most of the vegans I’d met IRL, all but one of whom were lovely.
I notice that, believe it or not, sometimes veganism attracts the “facts and logic” kind of people who can come to somewhat of a principled, philosophical understanding as to why they should support veganism by thinking it out for a bit, but in that thought process, they forget that veganism is also fundamentally rooted in opposing oppression systemically. It’s not a coincidence that radical animal liberation orgs tend to be explicitly leftist or even simply that leftism and veganism oftentimes go hand-in-hand.
yeah veganism has a very wide amount of partakers, i’ve seen nazi vegans, and of course you lovely commie vegans, zionist vegans, anarcho capitalist vegans,
Liberal Zionists are, very often, the insufferable trendy kind that think they’re smarter than everyone else because they have a subscription to the New York Crimes.
“Vegan” Zionists are unfortunately not as uncommon as you’d think…
I was semi-active in some animal liberation circles and the amount of Zionists and “centrists” (“noo don’t cut XYZ off, they are a good activist, can’t we put politics aside???”) is disgusting. But while it has its heart in the right place opposing animal commodification, vegan activism has always been thoroughly lib, so not exactly surprising.
The first big-ish vegan YouTuber I stumbled across turned out to be misogynistic and transphobic. Like, way more than the average Westerner. It was kinda jarring after most of the vegans I’d met IRL, all but one of whom were lovely.
Calling for genocide based on diet is an actual thing. See any reddit comment thread about dog meat
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I can’t imagine the type of mindset it takes to think that Palestinians are less worthy of life then animals.
uh racism
its racism and loving your dog
thats uh liberal veganism
Hitlerism
I notice that, believe it or not, sometimes veganism attracts the “facts and logic” kind of people who can come to somewhat of a principled, philosophical understanding as to why they should support veganism by thinking it out for a bit, but in that thought process, they forget that veganism is also fundamentally rooted in opposing oppression systemically. It’s not a coincidence that radical animal liberation orgs tend to be explicitly leftist or even simply that leftism and veganism oftentimes go hand-in-hand.
yeah veganism has a very wide amount of partakers, i’ve seen nazi vegans, and of course you lovely commie vegans, zionist vegans, anarcho capitalist vegans,
Liberal Zionists are, very often, the insufferable trendy kind that think they’re smarter than everyone else because they have a subscription to the New York Crimes.