Vystopia is like living in Nazi Germany untargeted (self.Vystopia)
submitted 19 hours ago by onehandedslam
I don’t think suffering should be weighed against other suffering. Suffering is an individual experience that deserves to be taken seriously on its own. I know the title will offend many people, and I’m more than willing to accept criticism and downvotes. All I ask is that you hear me out before responding. This post uses parallels to emphasize the scale and horror of what is happening, not to equate animal rights activism with resistance to the Nazi regime. I'm fully aware the consequences faced by those who resisted the regime were far more severe. With that being said, I hope you’ll read this in good faith.
We live in a system where generations upon generations of families are killed in gas chambers, euthanized, experimented on, slaughtered and exploited in the worst ways imaginable, simply because they do not belong to our species. Yet, the media and large parts of society present animal exploitation as a respectful and ethical practice that is essential to human existence. Cow milk cartons in stores display happy cows grazing on green pastures, propaganda in its purest form.
Most people are complicit in this injustice. Among the few who are not, many are too afraid to speak out against the majority or too shy to engage in activism. At the same time, animal rights activists who attempt to liberate animals are arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced by the same system that encourages this mass killing.
When you meet people, they may seem kind and friendly, but it becomes increasingly difficult to look past what they support. It can feel as though they carry symbols of animal exploitation, a constant reminder of their affiliation.
And if animal liberation were to finally succeed, if animals could confront humanity and we were all summoned before a great post-liberation tribunal, a "Conference of the Animals" where we stood trial for speciesist crimes, what would humans say in their defense? Were you complicit in the exploitation? Did you benefit from the oppression? What did you do for animal liberation?