• kartonrealista@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That moment when your veganism goes so hard you commit a hate crime on the internet implicitly comparing Jews to cattle

    Edit: I’m from Poland, the country where most of the Holocaust happened - this is where the Jewish population was the highest and where Germans build their death camps. We read about it extensively at school, including eyewitness accounts describing the atrocities involved in this horrific campaign of human extermination, from the home of the Jew, to the ghetto, to the transport train, to the camp, to the gas chamber and to the furnace. Many of us heard those stories from our grandparents, of their neighbors being humiliated and taken away, ghettos liquidated, and public executions. I don’t know what kind of deplorable scumbag one has to be to equate factory farming with the Holocaust.

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      1 year ago

      implicitly comparing Jews to cattle

      Yes, it’s a tasteless comparison. I’m a German. Hello neighbor, nice to live in peace.

      The comparison also falls flat because while the Holocaust was a genocide, meant to eradicate, factory farming is the polar opposite.

      The population size of factory farmed animals is usually way above natural levels, because we farm them. A philosopher even called it an evolutionary win for the farmed species (which does not justify any harm done to individuals).

      There are more ways to express ‘very bad’ than comparing to the Holocaust, and many reasons not to, if you understand it.

      • renownedballoonthief@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        You’re right, it’s so much fucking worse than the Holocaust by orders of magnitude. At least the Nazis weren’t raping women to keep the Holocaust perpetually going.