Esther Andoh

People have begun the narrative of “veganism is racist/white supremacist” when in reality the issue isn’t veganism, it’s White Vegans.

White privilege is exhibited the same regardless of whether a white person is vegan or not.

The factory farming industry, and every other trillion dollar industry, has NO interest in protecting people of color (and actually actively exploits them), NO interest in people with disabilities, and NO interest in culture.

The solution to white vegans being racist is NOT to denounce everything they stand for and portray the factory farming industry as anti-racist simply because some racist and ignorant people don’t support it. There’s a lot of things racist people don’t support that aren’t themselves anti-racist.

It’s also telling that it’s predominately white non-vegans saying this.

It’s baffling this is even a problem.

I’ve never seen an instance where LGBTQ White people are racist and people begin portraying conversion therapy as racial diversity.

There’s a difference between correlation and causation in regards to racism being found in certain subsections and in just about every instance the issue is Eurocentric mindsets that exist outside of those subsections and white people being racist.

ADDITIONAL: I’d like to emphasize that being vegan or anti-factory farming does NOT make you marginalized.

rant incoming

like it makes me so uncomfortable when they compare random shit to the holocaust bc. they've only ever read about it. they've never had to live with the aftermath that is still ongoing. even with me, someone several generations removed, people still think it's funny to do the nazi salute at me and call me things like "goblin" (which is basically a slur when directed at jewish people hello???). like they just. don't realize they're joking about killing me. for my ethnicity (i'm ethnically/culturally jewish but not religious). what the actual fuck.

like idk white christians can talk about the holocaust when they've watched their 90 yearold great grandmother develop alzhiemers and become increasingly more paranoid that it will happen again and spend her last years terrified that people will kill her and her family because she's seen it happen before. or had swastikas drawn on their desk/locker/hangout spots. or had their leg broken by children of kkk members as a like- 8 y/o boy. or had to flee their home country due to anti-semitism. these are all things that have happened to my immediate family. the micro aggression i experience are considered incredibly mild. again. joking about killing me.

Violating consent makes you a rapist.