Academic Absurdity of the Week: The Coming Vegankampf
18th April 2016
Steven Hayward of Powerline is on the case.
Really, I don’t mean to pick on vegans relentlessly. I actually know a couple of conservative vegans, and hey, if you want to deprive yourself of tasty animals, it’s a free country. But of course there are the other kind of vegans who, following most leftist enthusiasms, would like to make it mandatory for everyone.
The first step is integrating veganism fully into the current mode of identity politics, thus providing a pretext for Bruce Springstein to boycott cattle-ranching states or something. Behold this Ph.D abstract from Durham University:
Queering Veganism: A Biographical, Visual and Autoethnographic Study of Animal Advocacy.
Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.