Originally posted by
[email protected] 30 2006, 07:39 PM
Ah, how do you know what color skin I have?
I don't know actually; never claimed to. Go back and read exactly what I wrote.
Also, one doesn't have to be white to enjoy "white privilege".
Are that ignorant that everyone who has a computer is white?
I didn't suggest anything like that, so I'm not sure where this is coming from.
Or even everyone who is privileged is white? :rolleyes:
This is a no-brainer.
And calling me a privileged person is ironic; you have a PC, internet and you have the time to spend on an internet forum posting messages, don't ya think that YOU are privileged as well?
Privilege isn't necessarily a problem. But one way is when it blinds the persyn's consciousness. If the persyn is a class traitor, they are cool. There have been very conscious people who come from privileged backgrounds, such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Angela Davis; and to some extent Trotsky and Chomsky are examples as well.
I support a family of 4 kids and am paying back a stupid student loan. I'm willing to bet I have less privilege then quite a few on here. In the sense of being white and living in an imperialist country, yes I am very privileged. However, my conciousness is definately somewhere else, and I am definately a traitor to Kanadianism.
Internet isn't very exspensive these days, and computers are practically given away for free. Fuck, you can get on the internet with a Pentium 1. People sell Pentium IIIs for like $15 Kanadian, so your example is quite shitty.
Also, it's funny but rightist I argue with are always suggesting I post from a library, etc.
Btw, I have read MIM's "resolution and here is what they had to say:
2. The state will fund education on why vegan diets are scientifically superior for health.
So why are you mocking this issue and mocking me, calling me a "white hippy person" etc when your own organization whose statement who endorsed calls for EDUCATING people on why they should be a vegan!
1.) I never argued whether or not vegetarianism or veganism is or isn't a superior diet. I have my own persynal opinion on the matter and don't necesarily agree with MIM that it is "superior" to health than a diet of quality meat in healthy portions mixed with a well-balanced diet.
2.) MIM is not my organization. I'm not with MIM and I don't necessarily even consider myself a supporter. I agree with their position on the question of labour aristocracy/imperialist country workers, and some of their other positions, so in that sense I have some solidarity with MIM.
3.) MIM is making it clear that veganism/vegetarianism and animal rights is not a central issue, but rather a side issue to proletarian revolution and liberation. I got the impression that you think this is a really important issue that should be addressed right now. Next maybe you are going to tell us your a buddhist too... When and if you do, if you still don't know why I called you a "white privelige hippy" at that time, you never will.
And I don't care who kills dogs, Chinese or white or African, I believe that's wrong and backward.
That right there is a fine example of your white chauvinism. Who cares what you believe, if Chinese people want to raise Dogs and eat 'em they have a right to. I'm sure their culture is older than yours and they have a right to practice something they have been doing for centuries if they want.
Also, my comrade went to China to teach English and told me dog is deeeee lish! :lol:
Dogs have traditionally been one of mankind's few friends in the animal kingdom, we should respect that.
This is unscientific and stupid. Domesticated pets have nothing to do with the "animal kingdom". Try making friends with a pack of wild dogs or wolves and tell us how it goes.
This reminds me actually, it was either animal rights or Buddhists or both, who criticized the revolution in China and Mao for killing packs of wild dogs in the Tibet region. These dogs, of course, were infected with rabies, disease spreading ticks and would attack people and children... But of course the logic of these PETA types is that animals are more important than people's livelyhoods, and for the Buddhists all life is suffering anyhow... :rolleyes: