In a Race to the Bottom, Critical Race Theory Legitimizes Bestiality
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FROM Nathan Winograd, The No Kill Advocacy Center
August 2021

Although CRT advocates pretend that they are standing up for social justice, their views not only set back civil rights, they propose that we return to a pre-19th century view of animals as having no recognized interests of their own.

In the last few months, I have devoted a lot of my time writing about the emergence of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the animal protection movement and the threat it poses to animals. In books and journal articles, CRT advocates have:

• Defended dogfighters like Michael Vick, arguing that they should not be prosecuted because they are “victims” of “white cis heteropatiarchy” that enables “toxic masculinities”;
• Criticized placing dogs who survived dogfighting in caring, family homes because “they were effectively segregated from Blackness”;
• Called for permitting dogs to be left on chains 24/7, if they live with people of color;
• Called for more animals to be killed in pounds or left on the streets instead of rescued and placed in family homes so as not to promote “settler-colonial and racist dynamics of land allocation”;
• Defended backyard breeding as “queer affiliations,” even in cases where selling puppies is intended to supplement drug dealing income;
• Argued that the animal protection movement needs to develop “ethnoracial cultural sensitivity” by not judging people of color who do not feed or get necessary medical care for their animals;
  Argued that shelter workers should lower their standards for black people, even when doing so is “at odds with the humane society’s own core beliefs about how animals should be cared for”;
• Criticized the use of technology, like wheelchairs, to allow disabled animals to run again, claiming it “erases” disabled people and does “violence to nonnormative bodies”; and,
• Defended the harpooning of whales and clubbing of seals because of “native cosmologies.”

Underlying these claims are the racist beliefs that viewing animals as family members, letting them sleep in the house, providing them medical care, and showing them affection are “middle class,” “white” values, while people of color treat animals “as resources, whether protective (as in guarding) or financial (as in breeding or possibly fighting).”

Although CRT advocates pretend that they are standing up for social justice, their views not only set back civil rights, they propose that we return to a pre-19th century view of animals as having no recognized interests of their own. Animals are viewed as mere property to be used for any purpose, even sex as some CRT/queer theory proponents also advocate for humans having “pansexual” relations with animals — the rape of dogs, horses, and others.

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