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I'm trying really hard not to say something rude right now. Maybe I need to just step away. Because it is infuriating to see someone try to compare genocide and settler colonialism to factory farming of animals. Like can you just not trivialize an ongoing genocide by comparing it to factory farming. It does the opposite of what you seem to be intending. It makes vegans look ridiculous.
With all due respect, you only feel that comparisons between factory farming and genocide of humans are disrespectful because you do not have respect for the other living, thinking, feeling creatures we share this Earth with. You might benefit from listening to vegan survivors of genocide, such as Alex Hershaft, a survivor of the Holocaust. He directly compares factory farms to the horrific genocide he narrowly escaped.
But correct. How much more respectfully can someone point out your speciesism which is necessary for you to continue your role in the animal holocaust?
What exactly do you hope to accomplish with nonsense like this.
That you realise that booty is disagreeing as respectfully as possible, but that your material interests have you interpreting it as a personal attack.
It was a personal attack. As was you calling me "speciesist" and saying it's necessary for me to "continue my role" in "the animal holocaust."
What I don't understand is why neither of you will take accountability for your words. If you truly believe an "animal holocaust" as you call it is going on and has been going on for decades (if not longer), I would think decorum would not exactly be your greatest concern. I'd also think that trying to shame people into boycotting on the internet would not be your greatest concern, considering how limited the power of both unorganized boycotts and personal shaming are. I am trying to put myself in what I can best imagine as your perspective and it makes no sense to me with a charitable analysis. The direction I keep leaning toward as an explanation is that it's such an emotional thing for some people, they lose perspective on it in relation to everything else, but that seems like an unfair way to see it.
I just know that I could not function as a person if I took on the whole weight of the atrocities of capitalism and imperialism, let alone one issue. I could say that China sucks because it is not doing enough on the issue of Palestine, in spite of its global power and influence. I could rail against every country and individual who is not sacrificing to bring an end to it. I don't think that will be effective though. I honestly don't know what will be effective. I am scared that people are just going to keep getting murdered and it will be too late for them as a people. I am scared for the other peoples in the region, who also face threats from the colonial project there. I think about it near every day and if I felt I needed to chastise someone about it, I would not be concerned with someone viewing it as a personal attack because I would feel it is justified to do; I would only be concerned with the rules of the forum and being disruptive to it, if that is part of the context. So I would probably own it. If that's what this feels like for you, then own your behavior and accept that it's something you feel is justified in that moment.