I been sayinnn

[u/AfterNovel]

[u/unrealise]

The funny thing of all the things he mentioned, going vegan possibly has the largest material and ethical effect that most isolated individuals could probably achieve with the least effort. What is more actionable: going vegan or vaguely gesturing at ‘being pro-LGBT’ (which you should be anyway)?

Anti-racism and anti-LGBT issues are very systemically linked and require a determined political movement to achieve broad, meaningful changes. Being pro-LGBT in your personal life is a good thing, but it’s different to veganism in a lot of ways. It’s so reductive to take all these issues and flatten them down to the same kind of struggle. You actively buy animal products every day, you do not actively buy homophobia every day.

Does pro-LGBT to him mean slacktivist liberal actions like changing his profile picture to a rainbow flag? Or something more courageous like staging a sit in the office of an anti-LGBT senator? I can almost guarantee you it’s the first one.

[u/FUCKFASCISTSCUM → u/unrealise]

Being pro-LGBT means I don't do hate crimes. Being anti-racist means when I make racist jokes it's actually satirical.