Crotchets & Quibblings: People who are really really strident about abolitionist veganism →

unknowablewoman:

missvoltairine:

and go about it talking all about how animals are the most oppressed:

Whenever someone does that, I always just assume that they chose speciesism as their “cause” because animals can’t “speak” on their own behalves, so it’s easier for privileged white…

I’m not the vegan you speak of(I’m not a vegan at all), but to me, it sounds like you’re just really defensive about your not being vegan and using outspoken white male vegans as a punching bag.  All strident abolitionist vegans are privileged white dudes?  really?  The only actual examples you come up with are ‘propaghandi’.  well that was certainly an easy one, wasn’t it?  Correct me if I’m wrong, but you seem to be implying that vegan straight white cis dudes can’t be pro-feminist, queer-posi, and anti-racist allies because they inevitably “fuck up” and must be written off.  If you feel so bad about eating animal products, just don’t do it.  If you don’t feel bad, then eat animals.  I don’t understand how hating on non-feminist, anti-queer, racist vegans for being vegan makes sense.  Isn’t the veganness unimportant compared to the racism and the sexism?

2 months ago  /  253 notes  /  Source: missvoltairine