The Chick-Fil-A "controversy." A murderous speciesist "shockingly" exhibits bigotry. 






The principle of might makes right (for this is not about food or health, clearly) is the foundation of factory farm industries. Exploitation of innocents is the key. what historical amnesia, to return blindly to fakery of a new "gilded age" and forget the lessons of the 20th century. As Isaac Bashevis Singer stated,  "In relation to [animals], all people are Nazis; for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka." Or, more accurately, when it came to building concentration camps, Germans visited Chicago - as Coetzee notes, "'...it was from the Chicago stockyards that the Nazis learned how to process bodies."






 All beings capable of suffering deserve compassion and full equality. The problem is not with the "right/conservative" versus the "left/liberal" for both are merely rearranging the same.


This might seem to be merely redundant of say, the claims R. Clarke Cooper makes (or aligned with) in "Chick-fil-A: Empty Calorie Diversion from Diversity" in Huff Post. Nothing could be further from the truth. Cooper realigns the debate as empty not because the fundamental matter lies within speciesism (the foundation of bigotry and true state-sponsored environmental terrorism), but rather because it is trivial, "In a free society there is room for disagreement on marriage, as there is room for disagreement on war, health care and taxes. Remember, this is about fried chicken, not cross burnings." So, for Cooper 1) there's a free/open/civil society; 2) this free/open/civil society functions out of healthy debate and then produces great policies (see Sandel's critique below) and a fully functioning diverse democracy thrives on this; and pointedly, 3) "this is about fried chicken, not cross burnings." True, factory farming is a leading (second, by most accounts) contributor to climate change  in the world (not cross burnings, not to trivialize the latter but it simply is not about that).

And so it is with the return of the unencumbered self (did it ever take leave?). Or as Herbert G. Reid accurately deemed (presciently long before facebook etc) "the cyberspace cowboy." Faux leftism, liberal feminism (which runs the gamut from m albright to libertarian "postpost feminism" of the united states. I can do what I want! I have the power! etc. This imperialistic internalized patriarchy finds its manifest in Capitalism. Spectres of Marx seems prescient as well. Perhaps derrida's LEAST dated book, most significant (another conversation).

Working living suffering beings, all. This much I've learned in these cold years" (spicer, imaginary elegies). Or as Upton Sinclair (I'm going on memory here) stated in the original 1905 (soon to be censored) edition of The Jungle (note the later editions never explained to the reader what "the jungle" was), " "The place which is here called The Jungle is not Packington, nor is it Chicago, nor is it Illinois, nor is it the United states- it is Civilization." Again, the principle of might makes right. Of doing what one wants. It's only fried chicken. It's only rape culture. It's only free speech. It's only someone's opinion. You're too sensitive. That's "identity politics" (a new charge from the patriarchal capitalist "left"....

Internetted masturbation scenarios (facebook, "twitter"). And, as derrida points out in his section on Kierkegaard in The Gift of Death , there is but a small difference between Killing and Allowing To Die. Small to none. Look at the next post. Post a pic. Smile. It's only fried chicken...