6-28-496-8128 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:00 am
I like your blog! It seems you really think things through.
Thank you
6-28-496-8128 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:00 am
But are white people not indigenous, too? They too come from areas on Earth, right? So would they not be indigenous to those areas? What about for example the Caucasus region? What about all the white people who still live in Europe and whose ancestors never went to America?
I get that American white people are clearly not indigenous, but I am not as convinced about the European white people.
It's a great point. White people are, of course, indigenous to Europe and places like the Caucasus region. The Caucasus is actually a real melting pot of genetic variation with influences from all points of the compass. Equating Caucasians with white people is not all that accurate, in reality.
I think the argument goes that white Europeans had colonised places like Africa and the Americas, dominating or displacing those indigenous people and profiting handsomely by doing so.
This has created a situation, in the modern world, where white dominated financial systems control the flow of money and have created prosperity in the Western world.
It is this prosperity that has allowed veganism to flourish because it has given us access to foods which may not have been available, had history not played out in the way it did.
The anti-indigenous argument seems to have come about because some enthusiastic vegans have attacked indigenous people for hunting and living their traditional way of life - which involves meat eating. Then this developed into an excuse for indigenous people who do live in the cities and who could go vegan, to reject veganism as anti-indigenous.
In my article I try to show that veganism actually has nothing to do with being anti-indigenous (not sure if I succeeded!) and the argument is just a distraction from what we should be focusing on ... which is animal oppression, of course.
Thank you again for reading my blog
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.png)