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[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 18 points 4 months ago

It's really not that surprising. There have always been activists who lack a consistent worldview. Whites only unions, communists in favour of colonising etc.

A lot of people genuinely don't see non human animals as even remotely comparable to a human, and often react with intense indignation at even the merest suggestion of comparison. This was, often very cruelly, patterned into them at a young age. I have hope that most will come round, after all we all did and idk about you but I am a garbage fire of a human being.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's always 3 parts of someone's politics you have to take note of:

Economic base (progressive economic system vs. status quo and reactionary economic system --> eg. socialism vs. capitalism)
Superstructure at home (culture + gov't issues --> eg. racial equality struggle + liberal democracy's struggle between elected and appointees)
Foreign Policy (critical support of ideologically-aligned gov'ts, if not strategically-aligned ones, against larger evils)

And if at least one part of someone's ideological thinking are very much hostilely contrary to the rest of 2/3, they should rethink their entire viewpoint on why it is so