#HumanSupremacy is why we're in the straits we're in. It's another shitty flavor in the nauseating mix that is #Civilization, right up there with #Patriarchy and #Capitalism

"Human supremacy is the dominant worldview of human superiority and entitlement. It asserts that humans are separate from and above all other life forms. Human supremacy includes the precepts: Planet Earth belongs to humanity; Earth consists of 'resources' that are useful, profitable, or desirable; humans exhibit a form of consciousness that is essentially distinct from that of every other species; and humans rightfully possess absolute power of life and death over all non-humans and absolute power to possess and control all geographical space. While these precepts are broadly shared, fortunately they are also being increasingly contested."

Read more at:

https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/what-is.php?t=human-supremacy-definition

There are times when Praxis is sitting on my hand, beak to face, and he'll look up at me with his tiny little eye and make full eye contact. He'll cock his head and meet my gaze steadily and then give little blinks that mean love. I feel so seen by someone that isn't another human being.

That humans are so blinded by #HumanSupremacy that we insist on looking for intelligent life "out there" when we have it right here on our planet breaks my heart sometimes. What people really mean by that is that they want something that resembles ourselves, rather than celebrating the multitudinous ways life is intelligent in ways not resembling ours at all.

Humans are so self-blinded and full of hubris.

#Birds #ParrotsOfMastodon #Budgies #AnimalCompanions

There were old experiments that suggested plants do things like this, and it's one of my reasons for insisting that the natural world is all alive and aware and we're just too hubristic and stunted to believe or appreciate it.

Life is one big web and just because something communicates in a way we don't accept is communication (because it's not written or spoken linguistics) doesn't mean a living being is insensate.

#Civilization #HumanSupremacy

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-plants-scream-we-just-couldnt-hear-them-until-now/

Die Kinder glauben vielleicht, die Kuh wäre lila, aber die Erwachsenen glauben, die Kuh wäre glücklich.

#falsebeliefs #desilusioniert #Veganismus #Tierrechte #veganism #vegan #animalrights #justice #decency #speciesism #humansupremacy #Milch #Schokolade #Kinder #Mutter #Erwachsene

@thejessiekirk

If you genuinely think that the solution to bias in science is to just do science better then you really need to read some critical theory, maybe critical race theory or something (the concepts translate to lots of domains but i think this is the most written about)

And why did you refer to it as "animal research" rather than "non-human animal research"

Yes I am comparing it to racist IQ test because the concept of measurable intelligence was invented by racists and the concept still carries the same assumptions implicitly even if the explicit intentions were written out. And because the spore remains it translates quite nicely onto speciesism and human supremacy as I have outlined above

#Speciesism #HumanSupremacy #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #CriticalTheory

@thejessiekirk Science is not a vacuum it exists under the social system of human supremacy and is absolutely tainted by it regardless of professed ideals of objectivity - the scientific method is *resistant* to bias not imprevious to it - and human supremacy is probably the single most deeply held and longstanding bias there is

See critical theory thinking on bias in science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory

#HumanSupremacy

@thejessiekirk I'm not dismissing that, I'm saying that common definitions of intelligence are human supremacist in nature "more like human = more intelligent" and that if your work rests on this foundation then you are furthering human supremacy

#HumanSupremacy

@thejessiekirk It is possible to study the behaviour of other animals scientifically - but the idea that it is based on an innate intelligence is speciesist and human supremacist. Intelligence is usually defined in ways that put humans on top, just like how IQ tests were usually and still sometimes are defined in ways that put white people on top.

#Speciesism #HumanSupremacy