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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
I’ll go “Alive” and Hannible Lector on them before I give up meat.
Won’t happen though, as they don’t have the numbers to initiate such an action,
So it’s cows, pork, chicken and fish forever...
Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter!
When conservatives want to be vegans, they don’t eat any meat. When liberals want to be vegans, they don’t want anybody to eat meat.
Hitler was Vegan , must have been where she got the idea
I graze between meats.
“Some people just need killin’”
Does this dude have a mouse in his pocket?
He sounds just like one of the mad mullahs who, incites his young acolytes from the safety of his mosque. Same type of mental process.
If he believes this crap, he should just go out and do it, get a lengthy sentence and be off the education/indoctrination payroll.
It was UTEP (University of Texas at El Paso). Austin is pretty liberal, but El Paso makes Austin look like Tea Party HQ.
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/scou2d/comedy-central-presents-vegetarians
How can you overthrow the world when your stomach can’t even handle...broth...
Why did National review suddenly decide to write about something this nobody wrote 6 years ago? It must have been a really slow news day/week/month.
It would be great if this would get this nut fired. In reality, it’s more likely to get him promoted.
That freak could take a bath in the barrel of a ten gauge shotgun.
Standard dog diet consists of small animals, all of which are herbivores. Being omnivores, they also eat fruits, and other plants/plant parts.
I think the professor flunked out of Biology 1441...
Vegans don’t live long enough for that.
ALF & ELF in the Great State of Texas? No way, Jose.
Hah, Obama has started that in America.
Soylent Green was actually people.
But I wonder if that’s allowed by vegans, since it is only human.
The ivory tower of acaDUMBis is becoming progressively devoid of reality.
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