PETA's controversial exhibit is online for everyone to see and judge. [View All]

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PETA Launches Animal Liberation Project: "We are all animals"

Please watch the online exhibit for yourself and ask if it is racist or out of line.

What's gotten all the press is PETA's comparison of the injustice and exploitation blacks have suffered with the injustice and exploitation that animals continue to suffer from. What is never mentioned in the AP articles, etc. is that the PETA project compares the suffering of animals to the exploitation and injustice that other groups have suffered as well, such as women, Native Americans and child laborers during the industrial revolution. Now, in this light, is PETA's comparison racist?

Further more is ALice Walker, the accomplished African-American author, being racist when she makes the following comparison (which is quoted in the exhibit)?

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men."

Here are some excerpts (click link on page I have linked to view exhibit online).

What is the common link between all atrocities in our society's past? Shameful chapters of history, such as the African slave trade, the massacre and displacement of Native Americans, the oppression of women, and forced child labor, were the products of a dangerous belief that those with power have the right to abuse those without it: that might somehow does make right. Whether for profit, convenience, or just plain amusement, this supremacist attitude caused people as a society to tolerate, perpetuate, and indignantly defend outrageously cruel acts.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Gandhi

"The reason for legal intervention in favor of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves.... animals." -John Stuart Mill