hexagonalpolarbears [none/use name]
We already had the “vegans can’t tell indigenous peoples to not eat meat” struggle session. But I’ll give my take.
Indigenous peoples have certain privileges to do things because they were the victims of several centuries worth of genocide. These privileges include…
Eating meat
Hunting
Doing slash and burn agriculture
Land exploitation like oil drilling
Running a casino
It’s already decided that the descendants of white settler colonialists shouldn’t eat meat, that they shouldn’t be land owners, that institutions like gambling are bad. But to deny indigenous communities to decide for themselves their own destiny on things is stripping away the self agency indigenous people need returned to them.
Yes indigenous have special spiritual connections to the land, no western science is not the be all end all of knowledge, no white people/european do not possess the same spiritual connection to land or have cultures worth preserving.
It may sound hypocritical to say a white should legally not be allowed to eat meat but an indigenous person can no problem, but if you don’t get it, then you probably never will. This issue cannot be fully expressed in words.
Actually it’s not okay to witness the marvel of nature because actively seeing is interacting with it. We need most of the planet closed off to human interaction and that includes seeing. Of course I get a pass because I’m a conservationist but I’ll take many pictures, you can experience it in VR.
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