the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family
Honestly vegans who are like “hey the factory farm system is fucked up, our way of animal farming is cruel and unsustainable, we need to think about how we approach food and how we treat animals, acknowledge that this is a capitalist problem but also try our best to work towards better local farming alternatives” i’m like
Vegans who are like: anyone who isn’t vegan is morally bad esp poor ppl and ND ppl who have sensory and diet issues with that because I can do it so why can’t you do it also I’m gonna make slavery/holocaust comparisons now about it.
Another one while I’m thinking about it: not attacking indigenous people for hunting
culturally significant ways to give their tribes food (as opposed to the ridiculously overpriced food they sell up there).
I am really so against any movement that tries to vilify indigenous people and the way they obtain food so like… yeah….
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