Veganism is a justice movement. We’re not just a bunch of people with some oddball, “hippie” lifestyle wanting people to understand why they should eat more plants.
Carnists abuse the shit out of these kinds of sentiments, in which they neglect the fact that vegan advocacy is not supposed to keep them complacent. The purpose of vegan advocacy is to instill discomfort so that people realize the urgency in learning to reject the exploitation that they endorse on a daily basis.
If you apply this awful framing to any other justice movement, you’d hear people say shit like, “Malcolm X is the reason why people don’t like anti-racists!” It just does not make any sense.
If carnists are truly convinced that carnism is ethical and totally fine for them to endorse, then why do they get so defensive and grasp at straws whenever objective facts about the horrors that they support are pointed out?
I agree it doesn’t make sense but there are people who do say and believe this, even now
Oh, absolutely!
And the difference is that there is a major disparity between the amount of people who rightfully condemn such a belief like “Malcolm X is the reason why people don’t like anti-racists!” and the amount of people who would believe the same thing for people who say this kind of shit about passionate vegans.
I can assure you that plenty of staunch anti-racists who’d look up to someone like Malcolm X would be the kind of people to say the title of this post.
In fact, this type of rhetoric is the entire basis of the discrepancy that vegan leftists have noticed within the framework of non-vegan leftists, hence there being concerns about non-vegan leftists being rather inconsistent when it comes to opposing oppression.