{"id":753137,"date":"2018-05-07T09:51:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T13:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753137"},"modified":"2018-05-08T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:36:26","slug":"how-is-that-intersectionality-working-out-for-the-animals-newkirks-talk-canceled-for-being-offensive-to-humans-who-face-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753137","title":{"rendered":"PETA talk canceled for being offensive to humans who face racism: How is that &#8216;intersectionality&#8217; working out for the animals?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Newkirk planned to show a video in which transforms... a black man into an Asian woman and eventually into a bear and a chicken.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CHRIS WHITE:<\/strong> &#8216;<em>Google canceled a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals event at the company\u2019s California campus after employees complained the animal rights group compares animal abuse to racism&#8230; Google employees invited Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of PETA, to discuss her view that animals and humans are subject to similar levels of prejudice. Other employees claimed the topic was offensive to humans who face racism. The event was canceled after the employees protested&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Newkirk planned to show a video in which a member of the Wu-Tang Clan transforms from a black man into an Asian woman and eventually into a bear and a chicken. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if we have fur or feathers or fins, the length of our nose or the number of legs,\u201d hip hop artist RZA says in the video. \u201cWe\u2019re not different in any important way&#8221;&#8230; The incident struck Newkirk by surprise. \u201cIt\u2019s the most anti-racist talk you\u2019ll ever hear,\u201d she said&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/05\/02\/google-peta-animal-abuse-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pQasxDRGQCU?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHRIS WHITE: &#8216;Google canceled a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals event at the company\u2019s California campus after employees complained the animal rights group compares animal abuse to racism&#8230; Google employees invited Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of PETA, to discuss her view that animals and humans are subject to similar levels of prejudice. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,21,23],"tags":[30,35,37],"class_list":["post-753137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-rights","tag-exploitation","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753143,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753137\/revisions\/753143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}