how will animal rights activists know when they fuck things up?
Forum: Strap-on.org Date: 12/31/2001 Personally I do not buy “animal rights” (although this is not speciest because I do not buy “human rights” either), but I feel that the biggest problem I’ve felt with animal rights activists (as well as environmental activists) is not that they are too militant, but that they are pushing for agenda on someone else’s (animals, forest, etc.) behalf or representing someone else’s interests, when they can’t actually communicate with those that they are trying to advocate for. Other activists sometimes do purport to speak for others also (e.g. Western feminists’ movement to liberate Afghan women, middle-class liberals’ advocacy of homeless people, etc.) but when they are speaking for *humans* there is a chance that these activists can be held accountable because humans can respond and criticize their “advocates” when their actions deviate from the actual needs of the people being advocated. I feel that animal rights activism and environmental activism ar
