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Finally got canceled irl for being a "white vegan" lmao
Elaborating on this because it's a discourse I've seen online that has always been baffling to me and I just had it for the first time irl: 1/7
It seems that if person a says "I think it's unethical to eat meat because if you can avoid killing something that feels pain, you aught to." Person B rebuts with "This is racist because Native Americans live harmoniously with nature and use every part of the sacred animal." 2/7
And like, this just does not follow as a well thought out rebuttal for me. One, it works under the assumption that there are literally zero native vegans in the world. 3/7
And two, if person a's argument is rooted in empathy for the animal, saying "well certain cultures kill them in less torturous ways and use all their resources" is just...not a compelling rebuttal to the core ethical framework of "don't kill something you don't have to." 4/7
This core difference in philosophical outlook then somehow then gets twisted into person a trying to enforce a colonialist system of ethics onto native people. 5/7
I get that it's easy to take "white person has a set of moral standards, and thinks those should apply to most people" and exptrapolate "uh oh, is this colonialism?" From that because welll...*gestures at all of history.* But I just don't think that reading tracks in this case6/7
If there's something I'm not getting here, I hope it doesn't seem like I'm being dismissive of anything, but this is my current read on this discouse. Anyways, this is all made much more frustrating when the person accusing you of this stuff is also white. /thread
