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[CW: Naked demon on a sign for a vegan strip club]
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THIS is why Portland’s still THE BEST.
https://bsky.app/profile/sarahkite.bsky.social/post/3ks6fwbsi2c2q
Yeah, it has an awful "animals are not products, but our dancers are" feel to it
Someone should tell them that's worse. They know that's worse, right?
Wait, what's worse? For who? I'm not totally sure what you're saying here but as someone who has survived by doing sex work, who has been repeatedly sexually exploited*, and who has also been more than what I think most would just call exploited, I would not say that any of that was worse for me than being murdered on a factory farm. Can we just agree that exploitation and the objectification or commodification of sentient life is very bad and needs to be abolished?
*(Side note to make clear that sex work is not inherently exploitational either but that's a different ball of wax.)
I think he's saying harming a human being is morally worse than harming an animal, all else being equal. I was confused as well but I think it's just the Community meme wording. Had to reread it and look up the actual line from the show.
The line is "I can excuse racism but I draw the line at animal cruelty". I'd forgot the extra layer of irony, that it's a white woman implying cruelty to animals is worse than cruelty to black/brown people.
This fucking site strains my reading comprehension sometimes.
I think a factory farm slaughtering people is considered outside the realm of possibility. I assume the vast majority of people would consider that morally worse.
Precisely what I was trying to get at, thank you for putting it into clearer words.