Surely you’ve heard of SOS, right?
Maybe not. The SOS to which I am referring is Students Opposing Speciesism. This
SOS is a rapidly growing organization, based in the U.S. and Canada, that aims to
bring about “total animal liberation” and opposes the notion of “human supremacy.”
Backed by PETA and
run by students aged 13 to 24, Students Opposing Speciesism has seven
registered “hubs” on college campuses, including UC Davis, UT Austin,
the University of Maryland.
SOS defines speciesism as
“the belief that all other animal species are inferior to humans," an idea
apparently anathema to the organization of young scholars. SOS believes that
“all animals deserve equal respect and consideration.” To wit, their website
states: "[I]n the ways that matter the most, [animals and people] are all
the same.” Quite. Now tell me the one about the three bears.
In a
similar vein, Yale University recently launched the Law, Ethics & Animals
Program (LEAP) with the goal of addressing America’s “outdated” and
“insufficient” animal rights policies. Doug Kysar, a law professor at the Ivy
League school, is one of those heading up the program. According to reports, Yale
published Kysar’s assertion that society is in the midst of an important time
for animals, due to factors such as revelations in animal intelligence that
allegedly “overturn past beliefs about human
exceptionalism.”
Is it only unwarranted human hubris
that makes us think we are in any way above other species? Is it only for the
lack of opposable thumbs that fruit bats didn’t write War and Peace or Atlas
Shrugged? If chimpanzees were of a mind to, could they have built Manhattan?
And who can say with confidence that a Moose couldn’t have composed a symphony
or sonata on par with anything Beethoven produced, or that a deer tick (Ixodes
scapularis) is incapable of understanding Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence
equation?
White supremacy is bad, though
its practitioners are extremely few and far between. (Far more common in recent
years, to the point of nearly becoming institutionalized—systemic—is the
concept of “all whites are bad and racist,” equally repulsive.) To say that “human supremacy” is bad is preposterous.
To refuse to acknowledge “human exceptionalism” is simply another form of nihilism
and a rejection of reality. (Although, I must admit, people such as Eric
Swalwell, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Jerry Nadler make me question my
beliefs on occasion.)
Leftists are attempting to destroy the
notion of American exceptionalism. And they have been quite successful at doing
so, thanks to their own policies. They are hard at work overturning the
biological fact of two sexes. They are continuing to hold up Socialism/Communism
as the economic and moral ideal, despite the fact that all of history proves
the opposite. Indeed, they are trying to erase history and discredit and
expunge Millenia of accrued wisdom from societies across the globe. Because,
though all other humans aren’t exceptional-- or even worth much-- they
sure as hell are.
If the idea of human exceptionalism is
overturned, what’s next? Is a Border Collie no different than a cockroach? Are plants
the equal of, say, elephants or porpoises? Should single-celled organisms like
paramecium be afforded the same respect and benefits as, say, Rachel Maddow?
Why are leftists, many of whom worship
animals, so insistent on seeing to the destruction of the human race?
It is beyond ironic that most
of those who purport to disdain the concept of human exceptionalism are essentially
“woke supremacists,” and arrogant as hell.
Plea to God: SOS.
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