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cammie wrote

Another reason these comparisons can fail is not that comparing oppressed humans to other oppressed animals is a problem per se, but that when using one of these comparisons the argument tends to strip important context from the oppression of people, and it often results in a simplistic characterisation or a insensitive sort of revision of the oppression that just comes off wrong.

Not that it can't be done of course. plenty of oppressed people have likened their oppression to the oppression of animals in various ways --you don't even have to hang around vegans for it to happen-- but when someone doesn't know the oppression they are talking about, it's easy for them to fuck up the delivery and undermine their own argument.

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