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[-] Inui@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

I've never heard of this actually being said by someone arguing with a vegan in good faith. They always say "so are you going to tell the native Americans to stop their cultural hunting practices?" when I'm asking a fellow to please just buy beans at Walmart instead. They point to like a single person on Twitter who comments about Inuit seal hunting and think that means vegans are targeting indigenous groups in any sort of coordinated campaign.

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

They love to tokenize POC, and they also try to conveniently forget that vegan POC exist.

I talked to a carnist who told me that "for vegans to say that eating animals is wrong is to say that ALL Indigenous people are doing something morally wrong, so vegans are inherently anti-Indigenous." Notice how I emphasized the word "all" because this carnist actually used the word "all," signaling that they believe that Indigenous vegans do not exist. An Indigenous vegan friend of mine proceeded to respond with how they find that to be the truly disgustingly anti-Indigenous thing to say, but they just neglect that and accuse us vegans of color as being "tokens" for white vegans and "enablers of white supremacy."

I had a similar experience when I, a black vegan, agreed with a white vegan on the use of the term "animal slavery."

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