Thoughts on (vegan) oppression, pt 3

I also realize that I have not been distinguishing between vegans and vegans who are also animal advocates. Admittedly, vegans who are not animals advocates probably do not fit into the ally framework. However, many vegans who are animal advocates have stated that vegans as a class are oppressed in part because of the discrimination against a specific group of vegans because of their activities (thus the reason for my lack of distinction to this point). This distinction, however, separates the treatment of even animal advocates from the treatment of other political groups such as communists. While the site www.greenisthenewred.com has a lot of great articles on how ridiculous (in my opinion) the specific targeting of animal activists AND other environmental activists is, vegans as a group are not targeted. Yet during the Red Scare, anyone known or thought to have Communist beliefs--regardless of their actions--was targeted. Contrast that to draconian legislation that unfairly targets specific types of activities.

Similarly, even those vegan animal advocates who have been targeted by the government are being targeted by legislation also designed to target radical environmentalists. Yes, I think this legislation is bad, but it is based on actual behaviors, however slight, versus just being vegan. I hope everything I wrote makes sense now. This is the end of this portion of the series.