Comments on: Equality Between Humans And Animals

By: Renee, Let’s Talk

Renee, Let’s Talk — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:58:50 +0000

[...] Of Color have already addressed Renee at Womanist Musings, as have I in the past, but it’s time for a fresh look. Here, I shall dissect her latest blog post that lists her [...]

By: It’s Not Food

It’s Not Food — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:30:19 +0000

[...] certainly don’t need to believe that animals are equal to humans in order to decide not to eat [...]

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:17:54 +0000

As an update, I guess I wasn’t blocked from the Femeniste blog site. I guess it must have been a computer glitch that didn’t allow me to make comments for a while. The debate wages on – ad hominem attacks against me continue unabated.

By: Eccentric Vegan

Eccentric Vegan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:25:35 +0000

Here is an excellent post on the topic:
http://criticalanimal.blogspot.com/2009/08/people-of-color-and-humananimal-divide.html
The one that Adrienne recommends above is excellent, too.

By: Bea Elliott

Bea Elliott — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:11:30 +0000

Very interesting… I’m “out of the loop” with femminist issues – No excuses – there’s just only so much of me. But I certainly know that exploitation to women still exists…it’s in my world too, everyday.

But I would think of all people, women of color would be most sympathetic to Animal Rights – exactly for all the reasons Allen mentioned in his post. It just illustrates how deep the speciesism really is.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:07:23 +0000

I have trouble listening to anything people say that are so hateful towards the animal rights movement. I mean I have met plenty of people who weren’t all about animal rights that were not insulting like the people on that site. They won’t even listen to what you have to say and immediately call you racist, sexist, etc if you bring up animal rights and it messes up their tiny worldview (by their, I don’t mean all of them, just the ones that do this).

I’d much rather spend my time on a site like feministing where there is at least some open dialogue and not a bunch of whining and anti-animal rhetoric. They are able to speak about the sexism in PETA’s ads while dividing it from the fact that animals do not deserve to be exploited.

Calling oneself a devout speciesist while bashing racism is sick to me. Vegans of Color wrote an awesome post about it: http://vegansofcolor.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/for-as-long-as-my-skin-is-black-i-will-be-a-devoted-anti-speciesist/

By: Eccentric Vegan

Eccentric Vegan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:43:22 +0000

To be fair, it really is just the AR issue that they go nutso about. If you talk to them about other issues they’re much more sane. I regularly read that blog and find it useful, inspiring, and interesting.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:24:59 +0000

PS Allen, I just went back and read a lot of the comments on there since I was banned and I am amazed. You made excellent arguments.

And when someone had the nerve to insult you, then say “inability to say no” was reason for exploitation, I almost died. I guess a passed out woman is ok to rape as well, being that she can’t say “no”. What a bunch of stuck-up psychos are over there.

By: Eccentric Vegan

Eccentric Vegan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:18:20 +0000

Actually, try commenting on another post. At Feministe, each post is moderated by the post author. Just keep your comments on topic and not sexist or racist.

For engaging anti-vegans, this post might be helpful:
http://www.vegansoapbox.com/the-reasonable-vegan/

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:13:03 +0000

Yeah they block everyone that disagrees with them. Especially the animal rightsists because they expose their hypocrisy and ignorance. They are no different than racists, sexists, and so on were in the past and still are today.