Initially, they actually wanted to write about fast turtles, so they tried to conceptualize a turtle that can walk a long distance in a short amount of time, but instead, they rightfully realized just making the turtles really big so that each slow step ended up covering a long distance was a better, more convenient, and more badass idea.

What is Aleppo?

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Reminds me of this time I was going to the restroom, and there was this old white dude behind me going there, too. I was thinking that he was just going to wait his turn and go in after I left, but when we got to the bathroom doors, he just tries to go into the men’s restroom first, and I let him. I wait outside for him to get out, and he sees me standing there and says, “Oh, you were trying to use the men’s restroom?” with a pretty baffled face and tone. And I just responded with a masculine voice and said, “Yeah…”

What gets me is that this was much earlier on in my transition.

On this note, fuck these gendered single-person restrooms especially.

It is incredibly racist to act like oppressing animals is an especially non-white thing.

Yeah, my poor, Black ass has been eating a lot of black/refried bean + vegetable tacos as of late… treats me well, and I can’t afford shit…

Also, as far as the thing about the POC calling veganism “white” or “privileged” goes, it’s more often than not still just as disingenuous as white non-vegans doing so. Trust me, the number who have called me “self-hating” and “racist,” falsely labeled me as “white” or “privileged” because of online anonymity, and accused me of “upholding white supremacy” simply because I unapologetically oppose animal oppression can’t even be entirely counted on both hands.

It’s good to listen to them, but you don’t have to take it seriously if their words are deeply unserious, honestly. It’s utter rubbish in most instances, similar to how a Zionist being Jewish doesn’t make them crying “antisemitism!” any more valid.

Anti-vegan POC remind me of a toxic trend that I feel like the left often ignores even in the context of human justice movements: acting like being marginalized automatically means you cannot be an oppressor, the false notion that being oppressed and an oppressor are mutually exclusive. Since I’m intersectional, I’ve seen this type of thinking exploited way too much in contexts like white women being racist, Black straight people being homophobic, and gay people being transphobic. People inadvertently end up giving it a pass because too many on the left think in this simplistic “oppressor or oppressed” false dichotomy that makes them scared to criticize these things, especially when the bigotry is more implicit. It’s the same thing with marginalized anti-vegans, but in this case, their oppression is directed at non-human animals instead.

That being said, there are absolutely white vegans who are racist, and I’ve interacted with them directly. However, the general rule of thumb that you can adhere to is, if the person complaining about a trend of vegans being racist is not both a POC and a vegan, it may be disingenuous. And even then, you can’t be entirely sure. I’ve heard vegans of color call certain things in the vegan movement “racist” that I wholeheartedly disagree with them on.

Another analogy I like to use is that non-vegan POC complaining about “white veganism” or “racist veganism” is on the same level as Candace Owens hypothetically complaining about “white feminism” specifically.