You might be a Nazi.
Debi Day, No Kill Nation founder, according to her own facebook posts, marched in Charlottesville.
For the longest time, I never realized that caring about people receiving equal treatment made me a liberal. I thought it made me human.
I’ve been even more confused when I discover that people who fight for equality for the animals are not by default standing on the side of equality for humans, too.
How can that be?
This weekend it came out that Debi Day, founder of No Kill Nation, was marching with the Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, according to Animals 24-7: “Facebook postings from Day herself and other ‘Unite the Right’ participants, including video of allegedly armed marchers, appear to put her prominently on the scene at one of the largest white supremacist events of the 21st century.”
The article goes on to state that “Day was also identified by the Miami Herald as one of the funders of a failed August 2012 attempt to repeal the lightly enforced 1989 Miami-Dade County ban on possession of pit bulls.”
Day and her organization, No Kill Nation, (a very ironic name given that she’s taken to marching around the country armed to the teeth) have also been financial supporters of the No Kill Advocacy Center. Founder Nathan Winograd was blindsided by the news, and has put out a very eloquent and heartfelt statement concerning his position and the position of his organization.
I have a very hard time understanding the dichotomy of Day’s two positions.
From where I’m standing, they appear to be exact opposites in nature:
Number 1:
NO, PIT BULLS SHOULDN’T BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST. THEY ARE EQUAL TO ALL OTHER DOGS. NO, ANIMALS SHOULDN’T BE KILLED IN SHELTERS. KILLING IS WRONG.
Yet, then…
And then Number 2:
ONLY WHITE PEOPLE ARE WORTHY OF EQUALITY. WITH OTHER WHITE PEOPLE. ANYONE WHO PROTESTS THIS POSITION AND STANDS FOR EQUALITY FOR ALL SHOULD BE AT BEST THREATENED INTO SILENCE BY OUR WEAPONS, OR AT WORST, RUN OVER OR KILLED IN SOME HORRIBLE FASHION.
What. The. Hell.
Love this saying. You can get these shirts all over the internet.
What kind of a disconnect must this woman be embracing if she doesn’t notice or care that her two positions are in exact opposition to one another? How can people advocate for equality for animals but not humans?
I will never understand.
What I do know is this:
It’s incredibly important that white people speak out now and let the victimized know we do not support what is going on in our country.
I am white. (Although I have been mistaken for other nationalities on occasion.) Even as a white person, I struggle every day with self-esteem issues. And yet, how can my struggles to feel good about myself compare to those who are treated so unfairly by racists in America? How must they struggle to feel they deserve to BE here in America, they deserve to feel good about who they are and the color of their skin?
I had a pretty shitty childhood, and grew up with a fair amount of abuse within my own family. My family imploded as a result, and I remember, even many years before I became vegetarian, my brother—usually when he was drunk—saying things like “We should kill all the gooks,” or “We should hold all the vegetarians down and shove meat down their throats.”
As young adults he and I would sometimes get into brawls over the things he said. Growing up in an angry, intolerant, yet supposedly ‘religious’ family, I WAS BORN INTO THE DEMOGRAPHIC THAT ELECTED TRUMP.
But even then, I was the outsider to this family and way of thinking. Even then, I knew it was wrong to talk about other nationalities that way. Even then, I loved animals, wished I was vegetarian, but I was too selfish to give up my own pleasures (for many years).
Even then, I just wanted to get away from my own family. I struggle every day since Trump was elected with fear and depression over the way other nationalities (and women, and skin colors, and LGBTQ, and…and…) are treated in our country and my own feelings of powerlessness to stop it.
I can walk away from my family. I cannot walk away from my country.
I stand against all those of my race—MEN AND WOMEN, animal advocates or not—who do not accept other races or sexual orientations as our equals. I believe in fairness, and although I’ve learned along the way that life will never be fair, that is the ONLY morally acceptable position for anyone with a brain and a heart to embrace. Everyone deserves equality.
Anything else is unacceptable.
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