Are You Woke? Then Why Are You Still Eating Meat? - By Martha Rosenberg

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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"Woke" is not an intellectual awareness of things previously not understood. "Woke" is not an epiphany that opens one's intellect to engage possibilities not considered. "Woke" isn't an ennobling, affirming embrace of truth.

"Woke" is agendized religion. 

It has a priesthood, dogma, sin and absolution, and an evangelistic fervor that happily invokes the exercise of power over the non-woke. The non-work are heretics, blights on the earth, and are to be shouted down, deplatformed, and excluded from civilized society. They are not tolerated. They are lower forms, evil, unevolved, oppressors and haters; they are un-nuanced thinkers, stuck in their unenlightened understanding.

"Woke" is the imposition of values into every venue of life: Media, entertainment, science, government, church, news media, corporations and business, and literature. "The "woke" philosophy obligates each "woke" person with enforcement obligations to protect the true faith. "Woke" presumes but never demonstrates its moral superiority. "Woke" philosophy is self-evidently true.

But in reality, "woke" isn't the goal. "Woke" is the means. It's a means to an end, and that is the exercise of power over people. It intends to overthrow the "system." It intends to set itself up in your life as the ultimate authority.

And "woke" will not accept no as an answer.

So as we consider the below article, we need to read it in this context. The author is not intending to tell us something true or valuable. Her purpose is not to explain or edify. She is not intent on providing facts or logic.

In fact, veganism isn't relevant except to the degree it is useful. We would be mistaken to engage the author on the basis of the patently dumb claims about veganism. We should not allow the diversion of veganism to to obscure the real issue.

Veganism is useful in service to The Narrative, which is the day's talking points issued by Central Command. The Narrative is one of the primary means used to advance The Agenda, which is the dismantling of the System. The System is our way of life, the way we deal with others, our preconceptions about how society should be organized, and the way our institutions should be constructed.

The Agenda is the overthrow of America.

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What is the nexus of "Woke"? The refusal to cooperate in the exploitation of the powerless "other" whether that other is of a different race, ethnicity, nationality, gender identification, age, different abilities and more.

Certainly early Woke leaders like Alice Walker and Angela Davis fought speciesism-"human supremacy"--the mentality that says "I think you would make a nice meal so I am killing you"--but many Wokes don't.

Veganism requires a mindful discipline three times a day as opposed to yelling "racist" or "transphobe" to a micro-agressor. (sic) In fact, in the entire history of Woke politics, has anyone yelled "speciesist" when someone insouciantly tucks into their Thai Chicken?

Cesar Chavez, who knew something about farmed animals, said "I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings."

Many non-vegans defend their food choices with "it's a tradition--people have always eaten meat." Yes, racism and crimes again weaker peoples have also been defended as tradition along with "God's will" and "nature's way."

And, speaking of "nature's way," aren't tsunamis, childhood cancers, birth defects, floods and fire "nature's way" too? But no one accepts them!

Why it is considered racist to name countries that indulge in wildlife breeding, poaching and trafficking, wet markets, dog eating, whaling, bullfights, cockfights and worse while the abusers are given a pass because of their ethnicities? That is one version of human supremacy.

How many homes with signs on the lawn that say "Hate Has No Home Here" have an embarrassment of meat, poultry, shrimp, eggs and dairy products in their refrigerator? Thanks to undercover investigations, no one today can claim they don't know about sow gestation crates, veal huts, downer cattle, male chicks ground alive, chickens boiled alive and routine practices of modern animal agriculture.

Currently, there are aggressive whisper campaigns funded by ranchers and Big Meat to cast meat substitutes (whether plant-based or cultured) as "fake meat." These campaigns actually omit the moral argument--do we have the right to slaughter an animal because we like the way it tastes on our plate?"--while they blather on about "healthy ingredients."

The lethal entitlement of this marketing reminds this lifelong vegan of an admitted child molester who once told a magazine that sex with legal age people was just "not the same" as sex with children.

Woke people are known to say "silence is compliance." But when it comes to human supremacy and eating products animals died and suffered for, biting is compliance.