• VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    Hey bud you really need to get off the cross. You just compared your eating preferences which are 100% a choice to someone being born homosexual and not wanting to be killed for it or being born/transitioning to a woman and wanting the same basic human rights as the other half of our species. Honestly you need to just shut up and think about that for a hot second.

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      30 days ago

      I oppose racism, sexism, trans- and homophobia. And I oppose speciesism as well. It’s the same system: One group considers another group as less valuable and exploits, abuses or fights them.
      You just draw the line at you own species.
      Animals are innocent, vulnerable and easy to abuse because they don’t have a voice and don’t understand the situation we put them in. If they were human children or mentally disabled humans, we would protect them from harm because of who they are. Instead, we do the most horrible things to them, we take their freedom, their babies, their lifes. In factories, on an industrial scale. Because a pig is just a pig, right?

      EDIT: Please reply, don’t just silently downvote. What’s your refutation?

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        29 days ago

        What are you talking about? Don’t you also draw a line when you choose to eat plants? I don’t think they would agree to that. Untill humans develop the ability to photosynthesize, we are going to have to eat other species, there’s no way around it.

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          29 days ago

          PLANTS HAVE FEELINGS TOO
          is #22 on the Vegan Bullshit Bingo:

          No, they do not. There is no serious study to suggest that they do. Plants do not have a brain or central nervous system. At most, they respond to stimuli. If you really care that much about the welfare of plants, you should go vegan, since many more plants “die” for animal feeding. Do you feel bad while mowing your lawn? And would you rather rescue a potted plant than a dog from a burning house? Is docking pig tails the same as branch trimming to you? Question upon question…

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      30 days ago

      You just compared your eating preferences which are 100% a choice to someone being born homosexual and not wanting to be killed for it

      All the animals on factory farms didn’t choose to be born there and don’t want to be killed either.

      It’s not about the sensitivities of humans, but the insane suffering of animals in this system of oppression.

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          29 days ago

          Just goes to show how little you care about others suffering. Social justice for me but not for others (those who I consider interior).

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        28 days ago

        You’re not the animals. You’re not even a good spokesperson for the animals.

        You don’t give a shit about the animals. You’re just a pathetic histrionic giving into your tendencies here to tank a conversation for a hit.

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          28 days ago

          You’re not the animals.

          I literally wrote that this isn’t about me/humans, so yes, obviously.

          There are many groups that are suffering and that I’m not part of, and I still care about what’s happening to them and want the suffering to end. It seems like most lemmy users share that sentiment when it comes to oppressed humans, so I really don’t get what’s so hard to understand about that when I extend it to animals.

          You might have the opinion that factory farming isn’t a social justice issue, fine. Me having a different opinion doesn’t negatively affect you in any way. Why are you so pissed at me just because I see it differently?

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            28 days ago

            You jumped in on a conversation where a person compared veganism as if it’s a persecution comparable to the LBGTQ.

            Veganism is A diet choice. That’s all it is. That is all you’re doing here.

            This is not you living as a member of the LBGTQ.

            You are not a suffragette.

            There will be no pivoting off of it here today and play shitty white knight for the animals.