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We Need to Protect All These Communities (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Is this.... Is this a post from vegan's being all like "omg we be discriminated against, look we are the same" when literally all the others are actually very marginalized very threatend groups? I'm trans and this meme is the same kinda feels of PETA saying there like trans people on how horrible it is, and getting hunted down. When in fact my whole life I have never seen any vegan get denied basic services to the extent of any marginalized people In my decades of living. It's always them wanting to take over Marginalized communities and make it all about them (in my experiences I have had)

Yes there are religions that have vegan type restrictions, there are trans people who are vegans. That's all ok.

It just doesn't feel equitable to me trying to place something someone chooses to do by extreme marginalized communities that are often hunted down (in some places literally hunted down)

As always it's ok to be vegan, or vegetarian. And I get the reason for it. But doing this kinda thing just makes me feel like how PETA is and try to redirect all the attention to them.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I’m not saying the groups face the same level of discrimination just that they need to be treated better. I’m trans too, I know the severity of the situation.

The reason why PETA gets a lot of negative media attention is because of the propaganda from the right-wing political entity Center for Organizational Research and Education slandering the most effective animal rights organization by twisting the facts and spreading misinformation.

The Center for Organizational Research and Education (CORE), formerly the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) and prior to that the Guest Choice Network, is an American non-profit entity founded by Richard Berman. It describes itself as "dedicated to protecting consumer choices and promoting common sense."

Projects and campaigns of CORE include Humane Watch, a watchdog of the Humane Society of the United States; the Environmental Policy Alliance, which criticizes environmental activists; and Activist Facts, a site dedicated to tracking tax-exempt nonprofits.

The organization defends the alcohol, meat, and tobacco industries and has been critical of organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Humane Society of the United States, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Experts on non-profit law have questioned the validity of the group's non-profit status in The Chronicle of Philanthropy and other publications, while others, including political commentator Rachel Maddow and author Michael Pollan, have treated the group as an entity that specializes in astroturfing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Organizational_Research_and_Education

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

The reason why PETA gets a lot of negative media attention is

there is more than one reason.

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