Racism Isn’t Vegan
As if he weren’t unlikeable enough already, Adolf Hitler was a preachy vegetarian. He subjected his guests to rambling lectures on the health benefits of a meatless lifestyle, and he berated his wife for using lipstick containing animal products. He forced his companions to hear his graphic descriptions of the violence in slaughterhouses, and then triumphantly accused them of moral cowardice for being unable to listen. Hitler, a man without an ounce of virtue, took great pleasure in virtue-signaling.
Linger, for a moment, on the obscenity of these scenes. This self-righteous vegetarian is one who has subjected humans to experiences that make factory farms look like playgrounds. This man is the ideological architect of Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka, Buchenwald, Sobibór, Bełżec and Majdanek. In Hitler’s view, the lines between races — pseudo-biological figments of the human imagination — were so broad as to warrant genocide. Yet, he could look past the far broader lines between species. A man who happily created abattoirs for Jews, Soviets, “impure” ethnicities, homosexuals, and the disabled, somehow drew the line at chickens. Hitler’s gross misplacement of moral priorities should make one fact crystal clear: Abstaining from meat does not make you a good person.
