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General Category => Discussions about specific materials => Topic started by: E.A.S on April 19, 2016, 06:40:09 AM
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Many activists compare slavery with animals’ institutionalized exploitation. They use it as a rhetoric tool, trying to convince the public that just as discrimination based on skin color is arbitrary and wrong so is discrimination based on species, and they use it as an inspiration source arguing that just as discrimination based on skin color was ended, discrimination based on species can also end.
In the former posts we argue that drawing inspiration from ending slavery is false since slavery was never really ended. In fact there are more salves than ever before (http://www.onlyonesolution.org/blog/blog/2016/03/10/more-than-more-than-ever-before/). And even what is falsely considered as the end of slavery in the US didn’t happen for moral reasons (http://www.onlyonesolution.org/blog/blog/2015/12/18/13-comments-on-the-13th-amendment/) despite the common narrative that activists tend to cling on to. Not only that, but the American civil war and the 13th amendment didn’t even end the enslavement in the US at all (http://www.onlyonesolution.org/blog/blog/2016/01/31/neo-slavery/).
In the last post of the series (http://www.onlyonesolution.org/blog/blog/2016/04/07/10-reasons-why-human-slavery-and-animal-institutionalized-exploitation-are-incomparable), we argue that not only the inspiration is false but that the comparison itself is false.
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