First, author Joyce Carol Oates came for the guns, and we said nothing. (Actually, you on Twitter said quite a bit.) Now, she’s coming after meat, claiming that one day, our culture will look on meat-eating as it does on slavery.
Slavery analogies are tricky business, for some more than others. Joyce Carol Oates at one point compared the non-binding petition to deport CNN gun scold Piers “Musket” Morgan to “the blood bonding of lynching” and linked to photos of “crucified Negroes.”
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Human beings are "animals"–in fact, "mammals." Claim that "animals" don't have souls may be correct but does not change essential equation.
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) October 24, 2013
That human beings are "animals" is hardly a new idea, & it is hardly original with me! Amazing that anyone could seriously think so.
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) October 24, 2013
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Rather than think we are somehow "lowered" by our designation as animals we should think that animals are "elevated." Kindness, justice.
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) October 24, 2013
Food for thought, or a bunch of baloney?
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@JoyceCarolOates That is most certainly true. We'll feel the same way about eating a pig as we now feel about eating a dog.
— John… (@HITPuggle) October 24, 2013
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