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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.orgtointernet funeral@lemmy.worlddying pig
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    1 year ago

    Eh, it’s true that this isn’t a real pig. It still brings up the very real horrors and suffering that humans have put pigs through (and still put them through to this day).

    So, it still hits different, based upon our history, in a way that a “dying dinosaur” wouldn’t. It’s similar to how a racist joke against African-Americans hits different to a racist joke against Italian-Americans. The context is important.


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    When I read Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, one of the parts that stuck out for me the most was how people used to burn cats alive for fun. This wasn’t just entertainment for the lower classes, either. Even nobility and the wealthy enjoyed a good cat-burning from time to time.