• NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.orgM
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    It’s really not that surprising. There have always been activists who lack a consistent worldview. Whites only unions, communists in favour of colonising etc.

    A lot of people genuinely don’t see non human animals as even remotely comparable to a human, and often react with intense indignation at even the merest suggestion of comparison. This was, often very cruelly, patterned into them at a young age. I have hope that most will come round, after all we all did and idk about you but I am a garbage fire of a human being.

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      There’s always 3 parts of someone’s politics you have to take note of:

      1. Economic base (progressive economic system vs. status quo and reactionary economic system --> eg. socialism vs. capitalism)

      2. Superstructure at home (culture + gov’t issues --> eg. racial equality struggle + liberal democracy’s struggle between elected and appointees)

      3. Foreign Policy (critical support of ideologically-aligned gov’ts, if not strategically-aligned ones, against larger evils)

      And if at least one part of someone’s ideological thinking are very much hostilely contrary to the rest of 2/3, they should rethink their entire viewpoint on why it is so