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[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

Being Spanish this is specially true. "My" traditions are of torturing a bull inside a ring in front of an audience, so FUCK those traditions.

[-] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

Just gonna casually use this moment as an excuse to show off my people's traditional foods

Manoomin (wild rice)

Three sisters, squash, corn-man-khrush and bean

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

Capitalism, colonialism, and wars of aggression are all core pillars of American culture, but nobody on Hexbear would say you're obligated to respect that.

[-] hullabaloo@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

It makes sense to me that, as someone with no context for someone else's cultural practices, I'm probably not the best person to advocate for change in that specific situation.

The most prolific forms of animal agriculture are obviously more destructive to culture and human life than almost anything on this planet. "The west wasn't won on salads" as they say. So anyone in a moral panic over culturally insensitive vegans doesn't actually care.

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

I always found this argument silly because there has never been a truly vegan culture in this planet's history anyway.

Even if there were, what this post is saying applies.

[-] Inui@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

I've never heard of this actually being said by someone arguing with a vegan in good faith. They always say "so are you going to tell the native Americans to stop their cultural hunting practices?" when I'm asking a fellow to please just buy beans at Walmart instead. They point to like a single person on Twitter who comments about Inuit seal hunting and think that means vegans are targeting indigenous groups in any sort of coordinated campaign.

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

They love to tokenize POC, and they also try to conveniently forget that vegan POC exist.

I talked to a carnist who told me that "for vegans to say that eating animals is wrong is to say that ALL Indigenous people are doing something morally wrong, so vegans are inherently anti-Indigenous." Notice how I emphasized the word "all" because this carnist actually used the word "all," signaling that they believe that Indigenous vegans do not exist. An Indigenous vegan friend of mine proceeded to respond with how they find that to be the truly disgustingly anti-Indigenous thing to say, but they just neglect that and accuse us vegans of color as being "tokens" for white vegans and "enablers of white supremacy."

I had a similar experience when I, a black vegan, agreed with a white vegan on the use of the term "animal slavery."

[-] starlord@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

Good faith question: who is quoted saying culture dictates morality?

[-] AcidCommunist@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You hear it argued in religious groups. "God gave us meat to eat so that is a reason to consume it" Another common one is something of the lines of "it is thanksgiving tradition to eat turkey" Edit: expanded my answer/ example

[-] Pentacat@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

God also gave us cornbread and beans. Heh. Beans.

[-] starlord@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Oh, I hadn't heard it put that way. Didn't come up around a lot of religion.

Did anyone say specifically that culture dictates morality? I don't see how a deity's instructions are similar to a societal convention.

[-] AcidCommunist@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

I hear it a lot in the south of the united states in the Bible belt, i have heard it on debates with earthling ed too.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

edgy voice: actually God didn't give us anything

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