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What’s woke this week?

4 February 2021

7:02 PM

4 February 2021

7:02 PM

Animal crackers in my soup, racists and speciesists loop the loop, 

Gosh, oh gee, don’t I have fun, swallowing nonsense the woke have spun 

Dogs have taken over the racist mantle from last week’s three wise monkeys and a new woke bestseller argues that approaches to animal welfare are also racist. Duh! Most horrifying of all, the sinister spectre of speciesism reared its pig-ugly head, courtesy of the turkeys at PETA. Read on for your weekly dose of woke gobbledygook. 

Specious speciesism

Speciesism is a thing and if you’re unfamiliar with the concept, the idea that human beings are superior in any way to ‘non-human animals’ is an uncomfortable one for the woke. Extend the woke notion of white-supremacist racism, replace marginalised ‘persons of colour’ with animals and you get the drift....

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