The culture wars and social justice issues plaguing the country now involve our fight for animals. Events in the last few months suggest our speech may be curtailedalso , and that will make our attempts to abolish speciesism more difficult.
For example, last January Ingrid Newkirk was scheduled to give a talk at Google, sponsored by Googlers for Animals. However, when Newkirk arrived at the Google parking lot (after paying her airfare from Washington, DC). She was disinvited (banned). She has yet to hear from anyone “in authority” at Google about why she was turned away from a long-scheduled talk. But one employee admitted some people found her planned discussion racist.
The subject of Newkirk’s talk was racism, sexism, and speciesism. She planned to be inclusive in the discussion and advocate for all victims of violence and discrimination, including animals. (Newkirk’s thesis sounds a lot like the intersectionality movement that animal rights activists are…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Maybe in part a case of if democrats or republicans take a view on animal farming, ranching, hunting, treatment of animals, wolves, grizzlies, it becomes partisan, but I mostly one of the issues we are polarized on because we simply are, having different attitudes, values, perspectives, not just because if one side is for it the other side opposes. These issues are coming to a head.
It disgusts me, the entire thing, neither party is worth a crap. Although I expected it from conservatives and Republicans, I’m truly disgusted with the left and Democrats, causes I’ve supported for years and years, and still get no support for the issues that have been put on the back burner for long enough – protections for the environment and protecting wildlife from going extinct – in return, just more rehashing of the same old, same old. I hope it does come to a head.
It’s very stark, speciesism, and shocking to see come from the Left. It’s the last bastion of discrimination, IMO. I really can’t believe what I’m observing nowadays.
It makes me lose hope for humankind…
It does. Did Nancy really say ‘spark of divinity’? I don’t think anyone can argue the definition of criminal though. 😦
If so, she’s not who I thought she was.
Yes, she really did say that. This is the quote: “We’re all God’s children. There is a spark of divinity in every person on earth, and we have to recognize that as we respect the dignity of every person on earth.”
Obviously that sets people, no matter how bad, apart from animals. That doesn’t help our fight against speciesism.
Indeed, it’s what were fighting against!
Human beings are not suffering from racism or sexism anywhere near the way they used to be. That was the last straw for me, the implication that those who support saving wildlands and wildlife were somehow racist. Even climate change isn’t on the agenda anymore.
So F**K DACA, the NFL, Starbucks, Stormy Daniels, CNN, WAPO, the whole lot of ’em.
“It is reminiscent more of the Christian Right than the Progressive Left, with its emphasis on the divine/human connection, the supremacy Homo sapiens, and the lack of empathy for other sentient creatures.”
I noticed this too – it’s very anti-science, because humans are animals too. Nothing is more of a reminder than the human reproductive process. The same as in all mammals.
Ahimsa & idaursine, thank you both. My thoughts resonate with yours 99.99999999% on all these issues/topics. I am so tired of the nonstop, ad nauseum anthropocentric worldview held by most people and by both the democrat and republican parties….all they really care about is getting votes and getting elected. Since animals cant vote, they couldnt care less about them.
The new tactic is to publicly and unconditionally coddle anyone that has demonstrated bad, cruel or violent behavior in the hopes that it will payoff during the next election cycle. Both democrats and republicans do this, they just choose different groups( i.e. voting blocs) of people to defend.
Humans are a very difficult species to love, misanthropy is easily understandable.
I’ll say,