Labels

Oh Uh-Uh PETA: A Read


PETA has decided to cross a line while making a bigger joke of themselves. I say decided and not managed because of the very strategic use of language you are about to witness. Brace yourself for the foolery...

On Twitter, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released the following chart into the internet:
Umm, ok sis, sure.

via GIPHY

While we were all laughing at these ridiculous substitutions that no one will ever say but was very on-brand (read: very useless and very white to say) from PETA, PETA decided to stir the pot and add the following Tweet to the above thread:

Excuse me?

"Just as it became unacceptable..." PETA? It has always been unacceptable to be racist, homophobic, or ableist, but of course, only a human would see and feel that.

PETA, this is definitive proof that you in all of you and your judgmental ways are indeed homophobic, ableist, and racist. How dare you compare the violence and oppression endured by people of color, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, or the differently abled community to someone saying "bring home the bacon".

People still call me a n*gger, and that foolishness is not the same as saying "beating a dead horse". Speciesism will NEVER be equated to racism, let alone misogyny, ableism, homophobia, and other forms of hatred.

While a lot of us love animals and want to see them treated kindly, humanely, and with respect, an animal will never and should never be on par with a human being. PERIOD.

It's very telling that PETA shared these tweets. Rather than supporting the animals and keeping the focus on the animals and the conditions they currently live in or how they should be living (or any one of the myriads of sensible and thoughtful positions PETA could take to be deemed a respectable and viable philanthropy) PETA chooses to show that they are completely out of touch with reality.

It's very telling that too many people weep over that animal cruelty commercials and will feel little to nothing when yet another Black person gets gunned down unnecessarily by law enforcement, or the children seeking asylum who were piled into cages who will never see their parents because they were deported before reuniting their family or the current president of the US making fun of sexual assault victims or differently abled people.

It's very telling that PETA has all of this energy for these horses in the saying and these birds in the adage but none for the migrant or immigrant workers who pick the plants you will so high and mightily eat to pretend that you are better than everyone else.

I wasn't alone in seeing the foolishness and self-righteousness of these comments:

The internet is ablaze with criticism for PETA's comments, which of course, they have yet to respond to. PETA is proof that eating plants doesn't make you a better person.
Email Post
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment