I’ve mentioned a few “vegan” Zionists I’ve encountered in other posts, but it just doesn’t stop. A vegan account I follow on Instagram made a pride post yesterday, and some queerphobic vegans in the comments stated that they are unfollowing because they disagreed with the “LGBT agenda” being supported by the account or some shit like that.
Of course, there were also some people who said they were unfollowing simply because the post was “unrelated” to veganism, but I’m convinced that this just serves as an excuse to make their homophobia look far less homophobic instead of being as genuinely apathetic to the matter as they’re framing themselves to be.
This is all too confusing for me. How do you get conscious to a point of saying “Oppression towards non-human animals is fucked up,” but still keep a disturbing tendency to support oppression of certain humans simply on the basis of who they are?
I’m very much disturbed by how I can encounter some vegans that seem highly principled in supporting animal liberation, but then they turn around and endorse capitalism, racism, imperialism, queerphobia, and many other kinds of reactionary bullshit in the process.
I’m beginning to be done with my efforts to try to understand anyone like this, but do any of you have any idea as to where the hell this type of thinking stems from?
Late here but I think a couple of things are at play.
Lots of morality is mediated by disgust. People with strange/uncomfortable -> disgust on a hair trigger are probs more likely to end up racist/queerphobic/generally reactionary as well as being disgusted at things which are actually bad.
Second thing: Right wing nutjobs are fucking obsessed with purity/back to the landness. “clean” purity diets and rejection of modern “degenerate” farming/diets is absolutely on track for the sort of weirdos kept up at night by skull shape and genetic purity.