• aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        6 months ago

        Someone should tell them that’s worse. They know that’s worse, right?

        can-excuse-1 : I can excuse human sexual exploitation, but I draw the line at the exploitation and killing of animals.

        can-excuse-2: You can excuse human sexual exploitation?

        • Dirt_Possum [any, undecided]@hexbear.net
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          6 months ago

          Wait, what’s worse? For who? I’m not totally sure what you’re saying here but as someone who has survived by doing sex work, who has been repeatedly sexually exploited*, and who has also been more than what I think most would just call exploited, I would not say that any of that was worse for me than being murdered on a factory farm. Can we just agree that exploitation and the objectification or commodification of sentient life is very bad and needs to be abolished?

          *(Side note to make clear that sex work is not inherently exploitational either but that’s a different ball of wax.)

          • boboblaw [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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            6 months ago

            I think he’s saying harming a human being is morally worse than harming an animal, all else being equal. I was confused as well but I think it’s just the Community meme wording. Had to reread it and look up the actual line from the show.

            The line is “I can excuse racism but I draw the line at animal cruelty”. I’d forgot the extra layer of irony, that it’s a white woman implying cruelty to animals is worse than cruelty to black/brown people.

            This fucking site strains my reading comprehension sometimes.

            being murdered on a factory farm

            I think a factory farm slaughtering people is considered outside the realm of possibility. I assume the vast majority of people would consider that morally worse.