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This was on a post asking "Is veganism apolitical?" or something like that, I believe. This is an older picture someone else sent me.

Here is a follow-up comment she made after someone asked her if she is vegan:

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[–] HexaSnoot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it's bizarrely infantilising of innumerable peoples, as if white people are the only ones who ever looked at killing non human animals and went "idk about that". Not like there's thousands of years of recorded theological debate and shit from all around the world, with Europeans being somewhat late to the game here.

Until reading this, I had a liberal take on culture and eating animal products. I felt I should not criticize eating meat in indigenous practices because they have meaning I don't know the depth of. But if many people of just about all cultures have been criticizing it yeah I can see how spiritual practices involving meat can and must shift because the world is dying. It's absolutely racist to claim people are helplessly stuck in meat eating ways and can't change because of their culture. It's more appropriate to say individual people are addicted to meat.

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's my impression that a lot of attempts to be sensitive to people who live with a legacy of oppression, genocide, and marginalisation wrap right round to noble savage stuff.

Culture isn't frozen in amber, it is constantly remade through practice. It is completely fair to criticise cruel practices and urge change. At the same time there is a need to be fair and sensitive, if you're spending effort critiquing like idk hunting by aboriginal Aussies than the fucking roo massacres or horror of animal ag someone might be justified in being like "Why are you picking on me and not your neighbour having a bbq?".