Comments on: Orthodox Erasure

By: pattrice

pattrice — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:10:12 +0000

Holly, I'm a fiend for anthologies too. So many of them have shaped my sensibilities. I got my introduction to intersectional thinking via Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology and the classic This Bridge Called My Back. More recently, on that tip, are the two INCITE anthologies, The Color of Violence and The Revolution Will Not Be Funded. On the animal angle, of course there's the classic In Defense of Animals and the more recent Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? For ecofeminism, there's Reweaving the World and for radical environmentalism, Igniting a Revolution. And don't get me started on literary anthologies and quirky issue anthologies or we'll be here all day! Charlotte, I hear you. Me, I always find it amusing when people who purport to be all about logic commit the most basic logical fallacies.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:57:58 +0000

Let alone the fact that no matter who thought of it or supports it — let’s assume it IS only white middle-class people who advocate a non-violent diet, which of course isn’t true — the fact is that veganism is correct in itself and is practiced on behalf of creatures who have nothing to do with the human-created atrocities of culture, race, class, and such. In other words, when evaluating the IDEA alone, the PRACTICE alone — when evaluating VEGANISM ITSELF, such concerns are totally irrelevant. But that’s Logic 101, and it’s abandoned by leftists of all stripes when they just don’t want to have to care about animals.

Now, issues of race, class, etc., are not irrelevant when discussing such things as WHO is vegan, who advocates veganism, long-term AR strategies, building coalitions, eradicating the human-created wrongs such as racism, classism, sexism, etc., and so forth, that exist in the movement (and elsewhere), but that’s a whole other conversation. Not that many people can tell the difference.

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:49:56 +0000

I like the way you think. I love anthologies, I own several on many different subjects and you’re right, no matter how you think on the subject, there is always something in there that you have not thought of and you’re left sitting there and reflecting and hopefully you learn something new.