Saturday, September 28, 2013

Change is permanent

After more than 9 years at this address, my blog has moved to a new location and morphed into a new form.

Click here to find it

This older version of my blog will remain up for a little while but eventually, “www.mickeyz.net” will re-direct visitors to the new location. In the meantime, we’re trying to figure out a way to maintain access to the vast archives here. Stay tuned and thanks for all your continued support!

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Human/Non-Human Holocausts: Hiding in Plain Sight

There’s an animal liberation meme making the rounds which juxtaposes the image of a railway car, loaded with doomed pigs, with an oft-quoted line from Dr. Helmut Kaplan: “Our grandchildren will ask us one day: Where were you during the Holocaust of the animals? What did you do against these horrifying crimes? We won’t be able to offer the same excuse for the second time, that we didn’t know.”

Upon encountering this meme, I had two thoughts:
1. The use of the word “Holocaust” in relation to factory farming is both accurate and appropriate.
2. The excuse that the world “didn’t know” about the Nazi Holocaust is an enduring and specious fabrication.

Since one or both of these thoughts may be deemed “controversial” by some, please allow me to elaborate…

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Product Placement

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Monday, September 23, 2013

OWS and the Myth of Fence Sitters (It's time to not be nice)

Any “fence sitter” who claims activists are “too radical” when they call out soldiers, cops, Democrats, etc. is just looking for excuses to stay uninvolved. Why cater your activist message to them when they demonstrate time and time again that they will never join any movement in any meaningful way?

Wake-Up Call: Fence sitting is a myth. There is no neutral. Complacent = complicit.

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Which side are you on?

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