Q:Have you ever read The Dreaded Comparison by Marjorie Spiegel?

Anonymous

No and by looking at the reviews I can tell I don’t want to. Although, I do have the very strong urge to go out and burn every copy of that bitch I can find.

Oh, and if you think I’m “overreacting” here’s part of an editorial review I found on Amazon:

Spiegel, executive director of the Institute for the Development of Earth Awareness, has revised her 1989 book to present an in-depth exploration of the similarities between the violence humans have wrought against other humans and our culture’s treatment of animals. Using considerable scholarship, she makes a strong case for links between white oppression of black slaves and human oppression of animals. Her thesis is not that the oppressions suffered by black people and animals have taken identical forms but that they share the same relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed. These comparisons include the brandings and auctions of both slaves and animals, the hideous means of transport (slave ships, truckloads of cattle), and the tearing of offspring from their mothers. Her illustrative juxtapositions are graphic, e.g., a photograph of a chimpanzee in a syphilis experiment beside a photo of a black man in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

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  1. apatheticsexlife said: Sounds like white devilry. Just like them to compare us to animals.
  2. savoto said: And that mess got published…
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