It happens in the animal-liberation world all the time. Those of us who work to better conditions for farm animals are always called out for being "welfarist" (a horrendous moniker in our circles), when we do so much of the heavy lifting. Compromising with the meat industry is horrific, but it gets the animals some semblance of life. Oh, and there's no outside to this fuckedup inside (as hyperobjects argues).
I'm rambling. I just don't get the drawing of battle lines when we're all on the same side for the earth & its creatures.
Right on. It's why the whole OOO thing is so important. What's going on is that many of the people who consider themselves politically radical are actually thinking well within status quo epistemology, which is basically pre-Copernican as far as our understanding of the place of the human in the world is concerned. The supposedly "radical" rhetoric they use also carries a lot of weight, just as epistemology does in Academia. Thou shalt not contradict or undermine their status quo, or else you're a filthy animal slaughtering colonialist woman-beating white supremacist, and worse...an intellectual. Shudder shudder.
I hate it.
ReplyDeleteIt happens in the animal-liberation world all the time. Those of us who work to better conditions for farm animals are always called out for being "welfarist" (a horrendous moniker in our circles), when we do so much of the heavy lifting. Compromising with the meat industry is horrific, but it gets the animals some semblance of life.
Oh, and there's no outside to this fuckedup inside (as hyperobjects argues).
I'm rambling. I just don't get the drawing of battle lines when we're all on the same side for the earth & its creatures.
Right on. It's why the whole OOO thing is so important. What's going on is that many of the people who consider themselves politically radical are actually thinking well within status quo epistemology, which is basically pre-Copernican as far as our understanding of the place of the human in the world is concerned. The supposedly "radical" rhetoric they use also carries a lot of weight, just as epistemology does in Academia. Thou shalt not contradict or undermine their status quo, or else you're a filthy animal slaughtering colonialist woman-beating white supremacist, and worse...an intellectual. Shudder shudder.
DeletePre-Copernican! Oh that is such a good jab.
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