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The Left Has Failed Animals
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"the left" has failed people, let alone other fauna.
This is speciesist framing, putting humans above other animals.
No, this isn't. This is recognizing that all mechanisms of modern governments, which are virtually all for the governance of humans, hasn't even achieved helping the average human. Why would anyone expect it to limit suffering in ways it wasnt built for when what it is built for it's already failing at?
The "let alone" part puts it as if liberating humans is more important than liberating non-human animals. The way I see this phrased used, it's usually that the first part is a necessary condition that the reader supposedly already agrees with, to showcase the validity of the more special case (I'm sorry I've been doing math all day and this is how my brain thinks atm, I'll try to come up with a more natural phrasing if this is too terse).
"They couldn't even walk let alone run", "She couldn't even buy food, much less rent", "This isn't true for any number, let alone even numbers" etc.
It places non-human animal liberation as a special case of the fight for the liberation of human workers. To be deferred to after a point in time when humans have been sufficiently liberated.
in what sense