I’ve mentioned a few “vegan” Zionists I’ve encountered in other posts, but it just doesn’t stop. A vegan account I follow on Instagram made a pride post yesterday, and some queerphobic vegans in the comments stated that they are unfollowing because they disagreed with the “LGBT agenda” being supported by the account or some shit like that.

Of course, there were also some people who said they were unfollowing simply because the post was “unrelated” to veganism, but I’m convinced that this just serves as an excuse to make their homophobia look far less homophobic instead of being as genuinely apathetic to the matter as they’re framing themselves to be.

This is all too confusing for me. How do you get conscious to a point of saying “Oppression towards non-human animals is fucked up,” but still keep a disturbing tendency to support oppression of certain humans simply on the basis of who they are?

I’m very much disturbed by how I can encounter some vegans that seem highly principled in supporting animal liberation, but then they turn around and endorse capitalism, racism, imperialism, queerphobia, and many other kinds of reactionary bullshit in the process.

I’m beginning to be done with my efforts to try to understand anyone like this, but do any of you have any idea as to where the hell this type of thinking stems from?

  • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    This is all too confusing for me. How do you get conscious to a point of saying “Oppression towards non-human animals is fucked up,” but still keep a disturbing tendency to support oppression of certain humans simply on the basis of who they are?

    There’s a few avenues here.

    Same mechanism as “Animal abusers should be shot, which is why my dog is fed exclusively on meat”, just sort of cranked to 11. The dragnet-approach to political positions; I saw Dominion (or anything similar once) and that got me really angry so I turned vegan (good so far) but I have 0 idedological basis to look at the world and / or am a reactionary so I’m also against gay people. I’d argue these are often “the good ones” of the vegan community that will gladly join in on any and all omnivore circlejerks around how annoying vegans are.

    Alternatively many people don’t seem to come into it from any sort of opposition to animal oppression but rather some woo-woo-bullshit about health benefits, often tending towards the real esoteric shit, that doesn’t really require you to think about any oppression.