Ku Klux … the white immoral grounds

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Picked up:

The Ku Klux Klan loves to adopt highways and sues the counties who don’t want to have them there. My friend Platypus told me about one of such incidents that took place in the area where she lives:

The Adopt-A-Highway program allows any organization to participate, which became a point of controversy when the Ku Klux Klan adopted a portion of Interstate 55 just south of St. Louis, Missouri. While legally the program had to uphold the groups’ rights to participate, the public outcry and repeated destruction of their sign was a cause of concern. In November 2000, the section of highway was designated as the Rosa Parks Freeway, named after the famed civil-rights heroine. (SOURCE)

The KKK seems to be on the rise in Germany, like other forms of homophobia are too. Right wing mediocrity comfortably blends into extremism, in the same way as religious conformism gives way to an overall despisal of infidels and people of the wrong gender. The people who imagine to be so contrary  often have more in common than they probably believe.

However

@germanvegan rightly noted:

While we are busy breaking our heards about intra-human conflicts, the world is being destroyed by speciesism+ecocidal consumerism.

Conclusion:

If we WANT to find common grounds, we ought to make a shift in our thinking. There are more important things that nitpicking on other peoples “being different from me”.

Anybody who really believes he is taking a higher moral stance by assuming his race, creed or even gender would be THE ONE making THE RIGHT impacts on the world for it to become a better place, leaves the broad possibilities of the moral plane.

Morality means facing real evils and not being comfortable with ones own faulty narcissism.

Must Listen: Jonny Ablewhite – White Hot Bullet

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Jonny Ablewhite is the writer and maker of this song dedicated to animal liberation. He’s one of the activists who had to serve jail time for their involvement in the Save the Newchurch Guinea Pig animal rights campaign. The breeding farm was closed due to the pressure of acitivists in 2005. John Ablewhite released this and other AR tracks on his site: http://www.vegandia.co.uk/home.htm

Here are some links about the SNGP Campaign and it’s successful outcome:

ANIMAL PHARM
LAST RITES FOR NEWCHURCH GUINEA PIG FARM
http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news509.htm

“Saved” Newchurch Guinea Pigs Victory March Sat 3rd September 2005

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/322514.html

Victory for animal rights campaigners

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/08/321837.html

People like this: Camas Davis

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People like this: https://twitter.com/CamasD prove that speciesism can indeed be compared to racism, sexism … as far as the fact is concerned that the problem lies 100% in the deranged psyche of the perpetrator. It’s a given pretext that is employed to make things look as if the targeted subject had features, characteristics or otherwise such an ‘essence of being’ that the very obvious injustice inflicted by the oppressor against a chosen victim would be thus justified (yeah really usually the gravest forms of injustice are brought about by some rational argument – rational in the view of the oppressor).

The reasons of course why a victim is chosen by a sadistic human group has political implications, each in own complex forms.

Nonhuman animals are picked as victims, in the case of a speciesist agenda, to seek dominance via the complete physical annihilation in order to make the own species “manifest” as the winner species, as the super-ordinate god-like form of existence, as an all knowing, an all controlling species, that can even declare “the other” to be “just a piece of meat” – which is but something digestible and palatable. (see for that: Eating, crushing, as a form of wielding power over other living beings … Elias Canetti in ‘Crowds and Power’ pp. 210-211.

This female person works for http://wusthofedge.com/ and she runs her own “meat collective” in the state of Oregon where she seeks to intellectually make speciesism look like a necessity for the human condition.

Instead of accepting human cultural (and thus ethical) re- and evolution, this person puts all her fantasy and physical eager into trying to get us where nobody except the sadist even came from: she literally takes carnism to a wannabe intellectualized level.

A sad horizon for anyone

She goes to “humane” farms, dares to put her sadist hand onto the nonhumans to “stroke” them, to later involve their tortured bodies into her group-driven-ritualistic abstractions of what is one of the most extreme forms of speceisism that I’ve seen to date.

The severity of speciesism in her case bases on an idea of promulgating flesh-handling in connection with the ideologization of objectifying nonhuman animals as a form of a supposed overall human ethical enlightenment. She is one of those speciesist ideologists that wish so hard to undermine the very ethics and morals that base on the pure and undeflected commonsense human form of reasoning.

Animal Liberation on its own terms

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It’s time to leave behind the theories of instinctual behavior in animals. Why did we as animal rights advocates buy into the very schemes that have been set up in the first place to legitimate animal oppression? It’s theoretically possible to establish new norms and standards, new normalities in our concept of nonhumans,  with which we should be able to explain, or rather describe, all that what we want and need to express in regards to nonhuman animals.

We readily take the boxes that the sciences hand over to us, into which we place “everything animal”, but then we claim “hey animals have rights and they have rights to their freedom”. But it’s exactly with those categories of zoology and biology that we unwillingly bereave them of their own world. You can’t take a living being out of his or her contexts, but that’s what the sciences do: they dissect life, they track life, they control every bit of a living being to draw conclusions. This form of approaching nonhumans is in itself an incredibly disrespectful stance.

It must be possible to reach new shores to discuss animals and their lives in a manner that would properly fit a liberation movement dedicated to their interests.

Animal liberation is for a part a matter of expanding our own views first; we are the ones who hold the animal world hostage to our mostly wrong views of them.

These other worlds and not-human cultures have their own terms, can we open our minds to that circumstance?

Animal activism as a free field

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Some people who criticize the animal rights cause, possibly mistake any definition of animal rights by activists with the cause itself.

(The cause comprises activism but is built on subjectives pertaining to animal autonomy: the problematic and complex relation of human society towards nonhuman animals, nonhuman animals by themselves, the context of animals and nature.)

Aditionally, if AR activists are ignorant of human rights violations, it doesn’t mean that their animal rights activism is fully informed either. Speciesism is a complex issue and if animal rights activists get something wrong about how speciecism works in society, then nobody will even notice.

When a human rights activist gets something wrong about what is best for humans we might not even notice that either, but obviously that happens for other reasons.

In the case of our insensitivity to animal issues it’s the remoteness to the world animals have been relegated to by speciesist terms of religion, philosophy, natural sciences (in a sometimes undetected yet so obvious way), culture foremostly.

Our ignorance in the field of human rights or our blindness to causes of injustice amongst people stems probably from disinformedness, a lack of freedom possibly, opportunism maybe, adherence to scholarly doctrine, elitism … I believe.

However back to where I came from: to assume that the cause of animal rights can be equalized with animal rights activism automatically, ignores the fact of how uninformed we all are yet of how speciesism and nonhuman animal objectification works. The atrocities done to the animal world are on a level that can’t be compared.

And to close this thought: Dedicating ones efforts to animal causes doesn’t necessarily mean that one takes a posthumanist stance where we all beings are “one” in a sense. Evolutionary there undoubtedly is a continuity, but on a cultural level it can be rather the interest in animals as “coexistent living and sensitive beings”.

A thought about religious slaughter

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Ban religious slaughter in the European Union – Occupy for Animals, PETITION

What upsets me specifically about religious slaughter is that it’s done on behalf of a religion, on behalf of a god. When our messed up society, our morally derailed society craves for dead corpses of tortured nonhumans I can say, well of course, our society is totally unethical, they don’t respect animals and basically also not humans, and not nature. What counts in our society is good old greed and profit.

But when a religion teaches its adherents that you ought to slaughter, then that what should stand for the sanctity of phenomena – the act of religion / being religious, having created religion – turns into the total negation, and really the TOTAL negation of life and of the value of life.

If people can’t respect other animals because the natural sciences have designed an explanatory model that puts humans of top of everything biologically, then that’s one thing, but if religion degrades life and tries to sell its lies of “love” then the world stands upside down.

I don’t understand why some people respect religion more than life.

 

Many forms of speciesism

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Many forms of speciesism

Objectifying nonhuman animals takes various forms:

- in legal terms nonhumans are classified as property
- in religious terms the separation is being made spiritually, man is preferred and given the right to dominate all that is on earth
- philosophical schools may give an array of different reasons for why whichever form of speciesism might be ethically sound or a right view to maintain
- the natural sciences differentiate between beings driven by instinct, the lower forms of life, the higher forms and man with the supposedly most complex make up of mind and brain.
- carnism could be said to be a term for one form of speciesism that classifies domesticated farm animals only (or finally, as in the case of horses and some exotic animals that are eaten such as ostriches) as “meat” or suppliers of food.
- pets on the other side are. in spite of being loved by our society, also affected by speciesist views on them.
- wild animals are forced to make up the object for hunters and hunting culture’s needs to re-exercise continuously the idea of a primeval and supposedly ideal condition of man as the hunter and gatherer.
- but also wild animals are affected by argumentations that target them in terms of whether they are intrusive species or should be seen as protectable.

For every animal species we seem to get one or more forms of speciesist views, classifications, argumentations. In every aspect that defines the human view on his or her environment we seem to come across a derogative stance on nonhumans.

When we discuss speciesism we should bear in mind how complex and difficult to analyze the subjugative view on animal life is in our cultures and societies.