Tuesday, June 03, 2008

None Dare Call it Racism: Comparing African American Slaves to Animals

The KKK used to compare African Americans to animals. That was pure bigotry. I thought that was all in the past, but now it is the animal rights radicals that do it. The hyper radical Steven Best put it this way in an interview:

Stealing blacks from their native environment and homeland, placing chains around their bodies, shipping them in cramped quarters across the ocean for months with no regard for their suffering and death, branding their skin to mark them as property, auctioning them as servants and slabs of meat, separating family members from one another as they screamed in protest, breeding them for service and labor, exploiting them for profit, beating them out of hatred and anger, and killing them in huge numbers when they were no longer of service--all these horrors began with the human exploitation over animals and continue today, in even worse forms, in fur and factory farms, slaughterhouses, laboratories, and other hell-holes where humans show animals no mercy...

Both racism and speciesism are born out of the need to maintain an economy and society rooted in bondage; only through slavery can the privileged--whether the white minority elite or the vast human populace in general--enjoy conveniences and live comfortable lives.
Human/animal comparisons are always odious. But to use the very imagery once used by the most vile racists--comparing a black human being to an animal--is beyond the pale.

Read the rest of the interview. It is a frenzy of anti-Westernism, anarchy, crazy analogies to ALF and Martin Luther King (as if he ever burned down a building), and Gandhi. All the evil in the world flows from animal husbandry! Frankly, Best pours forth in such a venomous rant,that it's not only very scary, it's nuts.

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At June 03, 2008 , Blogger Unknown said...

It's funny how this guy acts like he's the world's biggest peace promoter when I bet that he supports terrorism against those who disagree with him.

I believe that it's time to start calling some of these animal "rights" activists what they truly are : anti-humanists.

 
At June 03, 2008 , Blogger Wesley J. Smith said...

Sinistaplot: Thanks for stopping by. You won't get an argument from me.

 
At June 04, 2008 , Blogger Aeolus said...

As was said by Theodor Adorno, a German philosopher of Jewish descent, "Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals."

Or as the great Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer put it in one of his stories, clearly reflecting his own view: "They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka."

 
At June 04, 2008 , Blogger Wesley J. Smith said...

Because a Singer character says something, that doesn't mean Singer believed it himself. But that makes no difference. I have read Eternal Triblinka. It is odious to compare ANYTHING done to animals to the horrors of Auschwitz, which I have visited. I deal with ET quite thoroughly in my upcoming book. Animal husbandry is not the cause of eugenics or the Holocaust. It is the belief that some humans have greater worth than others, eugenics, Social Darwinism, religiously based prejeduces, the will to power, as a better philosopher once put it.

It is our views toward each other and the meaning of life itself, not eating a steak or using a lab rat to find a cure for cancer, where the darkness lies.

 
At June 27, 2008 , Blogger Jespren said...

My husband and I have a phrase for people like Best "human virus pushers" Those extreme animal 'rights' activists who clearly believe (and have even been caught saying) that humans are the worst virus ever to hit the earth. These people don't just push for 'equal rights' for animals (which is in and of itself a horribly idea), but for the superiority of animals over humans, and for animal rights over human rights.

 

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