The essence of this comment is that those of us concerned with anything else rather than the suffering of non-human animals are divisive, are weakening the vegan cause, are traitors. And we should just stop complaining & hew to the vegan party line… Instead of critiquing white male privilege within vegan circles, let’s go do some “real good,” right? Because heaven knows opposing racism & sexism, especially if we — gasp — critique other vegans, is a time-waster, a distraction from the REAL issues… We’re being asked to identify as vegans over any other aspect of our identities & our lives. Again, the parallels with the feminist movement are just astounding. Women of color get punished for speaking up about racism in feminism. Vegans of color questioning whitecentric vegans also are penalized for such heretic thoughts…
- The Promised Land? – Conflict – 12 May 08 – Part 1. * The Promised Land? – Conflict – 12 May 08 – Part 2. * These are first two of ten minute videos from Al Jazeera about the founding of Israel, the Palestinian Nakba (translated to “The Great Catastrophe”), and the origins of the conflict. * Main Al Jazeera English YouTube page. They post almost all of their videos on this site.
- A really good interview with Howard Zinn from Counterpunch.
Enjoy. – Brian
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