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Professor’s Manifesto: Vegans Must Illegally Overthrow Society to Save the World
NationalReview ^ | July 9, 2015

Posted on 07/09/2015 7:41:55 PM PDT by Steelfish

Professor’s Manifesto: Vegans Must Illegally Overthrow Society to Save the World by KATHERINE TIMPF July 9, 2015

A professor at the University of Texas at El Paso wrote a manifesto saying that animal-rights activists must rise up and commit “illegal raids” and “sabotage attacks” in order to save the world from a “mass extinction.” In a 2009 piece for the Animal Liberation Front titled “Manifesto for Radical Abolitionism: Total Liberation By Any Means Necessary,” associate professor of philosophy Steven Best says that groups like PETA are just not radical or progressive enough. After all, they work with corporations (boo!) “in order to regulate, not eliminate, the ongoing nonhuman animal holocaust.”

Best explains that capitalism is “destructive,” the state is a “corrupt tool,” and keeping animals enslaved will definitely lead to a “mass extinction” — and so basically it’s just not enough to go vegan or adopt a rescue puppy.

What does he suggest we do instead? Well . . . We endorse a form of abolition that (1) defends the use of high-pressure direct action tactics, along with illegal raids, rescues, and sabotage attacks; (2) views capitalism as an inherently irrational, exploitative, and destructive system, and sees the state as a corrupt tool whose function is to advance the economic and military interests of the corporate domination system and to repress opposition to its agenda; (3) has a broad, critical understanding of how different forms of oppression are interrelated, seeing human animal, nonhuman animal, and earth liberation as inseparable projects; and, thus, (4) promotes an anti-capitalist alliance politics with other rights, justice, and liberation movements who share the common goal of dismantling all systems of hierarchical domination and rebuilding societies through decentralization and democratization processes.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Pets/Animals; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: animalliberationfrnt; demagogicparty; occutard; occutardation; occutards; peta; stevenbest; texas; uoftexas; uoftexaselpaso
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1 posted on 07/09/2015 7:41:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

It’s time to just start shooting these people.


2 posted on 07/09/2015 7:44:32 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: Steelfish
Vegan commando?



He might infiltrate your house through the keyhole.
3 posted on 07/09/2015 7:46:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Steelfish

Yeah!! All the great warriors subsisted on a diet of tofu and eggplant. They are for sure going to be able to overthrow society. /s


4 posted on 07/09/2015 7:46:53 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("He who dares not offend cannot be honest." -Thomas Paine)
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To: cripplecreek

Makes center mass tough.


5 posted on 07/09/2015 7:47:40 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Don't be a FReeploader...)
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To: Steelfish

Haul these fools into the desert and leave them for a month.


6 posted on 07/09/2015 7:48:42 PM PDT by shankbear (The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
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To: Steelfish

“...and so basically it’s just not enough to go vegan or adopt a rescue puppy.”

Well, I guess I’m out, then. Thirty-six rescue dogs later and my hair falling out from malnutrition just wasn’t enough to turn the tide, I guess.

*SMIRK*


7 posted on 07/09/2015 7:48:53 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

That’s what buckshot is for.


8 posted on 07/09/2015 7:49:08 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Steelfish

Nature has a term for vegans:

Prey.


9 posted on 07/09/2015 7:50:24 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: cripplecreek

With a turkey choke.


10 posted on 07/09/2015 7:52:13 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Don't be a FReeploader...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Futurama Tofu lion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkR2XEYEFgk


11 posted on 07/09/2015 7:52:28 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: cripplecreek

With a turkey choke.


12 posted on 07/09/2015 7:52:31 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Don't be a FReeploader...)
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Funny....Millions of Texans think the answer to our problem of idiot professors teaching Communism to our students on our dime is to fire every radical sucking his/her cushy salary out of our pay checks. Get a real job, if you can, and stop indoctrinating ignorant students who won’t be fit to live in our society.
Parents should not put up with their children’s radicalism. If they don’t respect you or your values, cut them off financially and leave them $1 in your will.


13 posted on 07/09/2015 7:52:32 PM PDT by txrefugee (In)
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To: Steelfish

Why the hell does the University of Texas have a member of a terrorist organization (Animal Liberation Front) on its faculty?


14 posted on 07/09/2015 7:53:45 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: cripplecreek

BUMP for tomorrow. My computer is giving me heartburn tonight! Grrrrrr!


15 posted on 07/09/2015 7:54:10 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Steelfish

The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) tried this by arson at a University lab and burnong up a hummer dealer. I believe many of those are stll in prison.


16 posted on 07/09/2015 7:54:31 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Steelfish

He left out climate change.


17 posted on 07/09/2015 7:55:07 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Steelfish

Tenure be damned...these fools should be arrested for inciting violence.


18 posted on 07/09/2015 7:55:55 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Fred Hayek

Can you say “Soylent Green” ?


19 posted on 07/09/2015 7:56:39 PM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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To: Steelfish

When can Vegans take time out from Grazing to take over the world ,LOL


20 posted on 07/09/2015 7:57:18 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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