{"id":762898,"date":"2021-02-04T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T13:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=762898"},"modified":"2021-02-04T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:01:20","slug":"human-privilege-vegan-influencers-keep-comparing-meat-eating-to-the-holocaust-and-slavery-and-protected-hypocrites-dont-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=762898","title":{"rendered":"HUMAN PRIVILEGE: Some Vegans are comparing meat-eating to the Holocaust and Slavery, hypocrite ‘victims’ don’t like it"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Multiple people have posted signs that say, 'End the Animal Holocaust, Abolish Animal Slavery' and 'Animal Lives Matter', and they\u2019ll call critics who don\u2019t like what they\u2019re saying 'speciesist.'<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

ANYA ZOLEDZIOWSKI:<\/strong> Several high-profile vegan influencers are facing criticisms for comparing the slaughtering of animals to the Holocaust and the meat and dairy industries to rape and slavery\u2014feeding into mainstream veganism\u2019s stereotype as a lifestyle choice for fit, rich white people.<\/p>\n

One said, \u201canimal lives matter,\u201d while another was called out for doing blackface after she painted her face and skin black. Multiple have posted signs that say, \u201cEnd the Animal Holocaust, Abolish Animal Slavery,\u201d and they\u2019ll call critics who don\u2019t like what they\u2019re saying \u201cspeciesist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnytime there is an attempt to equate the Holocaust with other events, it\u2019s deeply offensive to me, as it is to many Jews and those survivors,\u201d said Abraham Silverman, a 78-year-old Holocaust survivor and manager of public relations at a Canadian branch of B\u2019nai Brith, a global Jewish human rights organization…<\/p>\n

When veganism\u2019s biggest stars use language deemed oppressive, it further isolates racialized people and religious minorities in the movement. \u201cThis creates a reality where people from oppressed communities don’t want to be involved in the vegan movement,\u201d said Paula Meninato, a vegan Latina activist and artist based in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s concerning, Meninato added, and undermines the fact that veganism actually has roots in racialized communities. Many Indigenous peoples have also spoken out against militant forms of veganism for perpetuating colonialism and failing to acknowledge the relationships Indigenous communities have to land and animals…<\/p>\n

Australian animal rights activist James Aspey, 34, has been vegan for more than eight years and is best known for going a full year without speaking to draw attention to his cause. He has given speeches internationally and boasts 254,000 followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n

The first line of Aspey\u2019s Instagram bio says, \u201cAnimal rights is an anti-Holocaust movement,\u201d comparing the slaughter of animals to mass execution of persecuted people. Throughout his page you can easily find several posts referencing the Holocaust, slavery, rape\u2014and a comment where he says \u201canimal lives matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many posts are screenshots of his conversations and debates with people who disagree with his messaging. \u201cPlease tell me you\u2019re vegan, because if you aren\u2019t, you support the rape and slaughter of female earthlings and that is very NOT FEMINIST,\u201d he says to a woman in one post.<\/p>\n

In a statement to VICE World News, Aspey refuted the idea that his posts alienate people. \u201cIf people are so easily hurt that hearing a word can cause them significant trauma, I would suggest they have a lot of healing to do before they use the internet, which has violence and triggering words all over it,\u201d Aspey said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is, they aren\u2019t actually hurt by hearing the word \u2018Holocaust,\u2019 they simply disagree that non-human Earthlings deserve to have their situation described using the same terminology that was used to describe human atrocities, and that is because they are speciesist.\u201d<\/p>\n

In some cases, when the behaviour is called out, the influencers double down on their posts or draw attention to critics by posting their exchanges, some public and some private, which can result in racialized and religious minority vegans getting trolled and doxed.<\/p>\n

Aspey said Jewish people, feminists, and other marginalized groups should feel compelled to join the vegan movement because they understand what animals are going through. \u201cAccurately describing the animals plight as a Holocaust should get Jewish people (and all people!) to realize how serious this matter is,\u201d he said. SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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