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......im not gonna say it

happy disability pride month, can this website stop acting like autism and adhd are the only disabilities ever please

My blog's main purpose is intertwined with my disabilities so there will definitely be more disability posts here!

Completely diverting the attention away from the victims, a classic carnist tactic/response. It’s a very selfish act.

You say that as you do the exact same thing. I'm a victim yet you don't care about me at all. Odd how that works.

Stop making veganism about you. It’s not about you. Its not about me. It’s about speaking out for the victims and doing what we can. Stop making veganism about you.

Stop ignoring bigotry and maybe I will :)

Completely diverting the attention away from the victims, a classic carnist tactic/response. It’s a very selfish act.

You say that as you do the exact same thing. I'm a victim yet you don't care about me at all. Odd how that works.

Re blogging again with this important addition

@sunshine-wlw

people really say “you’re v*gan if you’re trying to reduce harm as much as possible” but like. what if giving a cow a painless death seems very low on the harm scale to me in comparison to things like banana republics and slave labor

why do ppl not consider that some of us do want to minimize the harm out diets cause but don’t agree that raising food animals is necessarily cruel

Animals will breed anyway! Everything dies and at least they get to die painlessly! Things are dying and sentient (mostly human) beings are suffering so you can eat and you just can’t quantify suffering

just bc animals will breed and live and die of their own accord doesn’t mean it’s a okay to kill and eat them against their will jesus christ have some empathy

it’s also ok to eat dogs and cats for the record

i’m firmly convinced that a lot of carnists – especially leftist-progressive ones – are reluctant to the idea of veganism because it’s too easy, rather than too difficult

Ah yes needing to completely rework your diet and buying choices is definitely so much easier! It’s definitely even easier when you’re disabled though right? Or don’t live near grocery stores? Or can’t afford to? But it’s easy for you, so it’s easy for everyone, right?

i’d assume you do know that veganism is about reducing your harm through choice of consumption as is practicable within your own possibilities. veganism, as the philosophy that it is, is perfectly inclusive of people with eating disorders, dietary and financial restrictions, mental and physical issues, literally everyone - including yourself veganism is not an organization with a set of religious dogmata. it’s the ethical proposition that we as consumers have a moral obligation to choose as cruelty-minimized options as we are able to in our current situation this is what i mean when i say people are too afraid of going vegan, because it’s too easy. the one difficult part, admittedly, might be getting over your taste preferences and choice of cosmetics and clothes at first. but the more you remind yourself who and what is actually behind that leather belt you just purchased, the easier it gets

i very much admire any activism towards betterment within your own grasp, which i don’t even do much of myself despite my possibilities, but i can’t really muster the energy and resources as of right now, which ‘the community’ would likely pan me for all the same that’s why i urge people not to think of veganism as a community or organization, because it’s a sentiment, a state of ideology. the same way that antifa is not a group, or communism is not a fellowship. because once you associate any idea with its followers, you’ll inevitably taint your views on the idea itself and inadvertently hate it, instead of reminding yourself that people have been, and will always have a tendency to be shitty and off-putting. i’m convinced though that you wouldn’t hold ideas like feminism or BLM to the same standard. you’d recognize that some people end up being ‘bad apples’, but it wouldn’t distort your opinion of the general idea. and i have to agree that veganism especially can draw in some pretty bad apples but with any social motivation and movement, more often than not, vegans are just…tired and frustrated. because we’re made constantly conscious of what is happening to both animals and humans, the environment, the health of loved ones, among other things. and we’re so busy with counter-arguing, and sapped with having to defend ourselves that, eventually, we develop a tendency to just be angry with anyone who can’t see it for themselves when it seems so obvious and easy for us to. the same way how, as feminists, we are constantly made aware of the injustice that gender inequality brings, and we get angry and loud with people who seem apathetic, and frankly too dense to such simple principles. it takes me effort to remain calm and reserved too, but i recognize i’m talking to a real person, and i’d never lash out like this if i had you right in front of me. it wouldn’t help either of us so if i had the chance, i’d love for you to understand our perspective to some extent, while also being better off keeping some distance from the bloggers’ expression of veganism, and consider its core values themselves instead. i believe that to be ultimately healthier on your own sanity