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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    Laura Passaglia, the Sonoma County Superior Court judge who presided over the trial, barred Hsiung from showing most evidence of animal cruelty, depriving him of the ability to show his motives for entering the farms.

    What a bitch.

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    The guy led a group that stole farm animals and Vox calls it a ‘rescue’. I wonder why he went to prison

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      Change “Farm animals” for “slaves” and you have your answer.

      You don’t steal individuals who are held against their will. You free them.

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        Crazy that this is getting downvoted. We are still so far off from even basic general empathy towards non-human animals it’s making me cry…

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    It is weird just how secretive the slaughterhouses are.

    I don’t usually discuss this sort of thing very much with carnists IRL, because I tend to find their “arguments” and their positions rather tired and boring and in general completely irrational. The “but where do you get your protein?” type of questions or “I tried being a vegan/vegetarian but it didn’t agree with me because of my special DNA due to my ancestry of northern Europeans or whatever” conspiracy theories are especially fun. It’s usually the carnists that go out of their way to be activists about their choices, not me.

    I’ll usually answer direct questions and leave it at that. I find there is a certain type of carnist that get especially defensive (almost always men suffering from toxic masculinity) around the very presence of veg*ns and want to get into arguments, especially while eating.

    But there have been times where I’ve asked why slaughterhouses have so much secrecy in some of these “conversations” where the carnist just won’t drop the topic and I’ve noticed that gives them some pause. At least for a small glimmer of time. I think it is because these carnist activists are the ones with the most amount of guilt and they know that most (normal) people don’t want to witness what goes on in slaughterhouses…

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    Seems like it wasn’t for “exposing animal cruelty” so much as it was for, y’know, trespassing, breaking and entering, theft, etc.

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      Just like those criminals who knew it is against the law to sit in the front of the bus, or those who used whites only bathrooms? They did not fight for freedom but break the law?

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        Did you just compare black people fighting for civil rights and equality with animal freedom?

        I suspect you were just point out that civil disobedience is a valid protest tactic, but I would recommend just saying that next time. Comparing people fighting for equality with animals fighting for freedom is … Not great. At worst, it comes across as racist. At best, tone deaf.

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          I guess you are a speciesist to get so but hurt about a comparison, you know there is a difference to equation and comparing? How is it tone deaf in a thread about those who fight for those with no voice to say that it is a just cause, just like that I compared it to? Stop supporting animal abuse while acting upset about the logical comparison.

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      For the sake of argument… if I hear you beating your dog, should I break down the door to stop it?

      Yes, I could call 911, but by the time they arrive the sounds would stop and they’d have no probable cause. I could go in and steal the dog or even just record a video right now. What is the ethical thing to do?

        • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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          If only the OP was allowed to present those recording and videos taken through their magical pocket device in court.

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            There’s these people called the police, may be you present it to them, if they don’t do anything may be try getting that changed instead of breaking the law yourself

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              You know about Ag-Gag laws? They lobby with your money for such laws if you consume animal products.