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10
2009
Commentary #9: Using Sexism to Promote Animal Rights
Posted by Gary L. Francione in Blog, Podcast
Dear Colleagues:
Would Martin Luther King have had an “I’d Rather Go Naked than Sit in the Back of the Bus” campaign?
Of course not.
He would have recognized that such a campaign would trivialize the important message of civil rights.
Why don’t animal advocates recognize that sexist campaigns similarly trivialize the issue of animal rights and give people yet another reason to dismiss the animal rights issue?
That is the topic of our ninth Commentary.
Gary L. Francione
©2009 Gary L. Francione
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- Commentary #21: “The Animal Rights Debate,” the Abolitionist Approach Discussion Forum, and a Response to Nicolette Hahn Niman
- Short Videos on Animal Rights, Rights vs. Welfare, Animals as Property
- Sexism and Misogyny in the Movement
- Animal Rights and Domesticated Nonhumans
