I think you mean vegans are leftists, non-vegans aren't
If vegans are all soy boy betas, then why is this guy such a Chad? Checkmate, carnists.
Liberals aren’t leftists so it still works
Edit: wasn’t paying attention, sorry for necro
100% - the "harm reduction" of vegetarians does fuck all when they're still dairy enjoyers.
It's so terrible when you take into consideration that dairy is literally still a huge deal in the realm of advocating for animal rights.
You stopped eating meat but still consume milk, cheese, and butter? Congratulations! You want a trophy even though you're still funding a shit ton of animal exploitation and slaughter?
Imagine a conversation that goes like this:
🤡: "I'm so glad I'm becoming less racist!"
🤨: "...but you just called that Chinese immigrant a very charged anti-Asian slur, told him to go back to his country, and then went on a concerning and violent sinophobic rant."
🤡: "Oh, please! Quit being so judgmental! I used to do it to both black people and Asian people! Be happy that I'm making progress!"
This is what "baby steps" vegetarians sound like to me. I'm also always extremely cynical when it comes to their claim that they're even "transitioning" to veganism at all. Years from now, they'll still be stuffing their face with cheese and eggs, and by then, it wouldn't shock me if they started adding meat back into the equation too. The "baby steps" shit serves as an excuse so that they can feel less guilty for endorsing the dairy and egg industries, while knowing they're barbaric, and even then, it's not a good one. It's actually more excusable for someone to be lacto-ovo out of ignorance than it is to be one who knows the full extent of things like the dairy industry but claims to only be gradually progressing to veganism.
Dairy is a special kind of horrifying.
The only ways from entirely vegan kitchens sorts are western Maoists and the sort that eats the seafood without awareness or whatever it is are armchair leftists who go too deep into the weeds of it.
Edit: Oh shit, sorry for the necro
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Animal liberation and direct action
- Animal Liberation Press (ALF)
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- Earth First! manual and tactics
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- 18 Theses on Marxism and Animal Liberation
- Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out
- Animal Liberation
- The Death of Nature
- The Case for Animal Rights
- Anarchism and Animal Liberation
- Total Liberation
- The Unbearable Whiteness of Milk
- Speciesism as a Precondition to Justice
- Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
- Citations Needed on media portrayals of animal rights activists
- The Jungle
Vegan 101 & FAQs
- Black Vegans Rock resources page
- Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach FAQs
- 30 Non-Vegan Excuses & How to Respond to Them
- Guide to justifications for harming and exploiting animals
- Your Vegan Fallacy Is
- The Radical Left’s Top 10 Objections to Veganism (And Why They Suck)
- Animal Liberation Front FAQs
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