#uncensored: inside the animal liberation movement by Camille MarinoMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
What started as an effective, coherent collective of pro-vegan, anti-vivisection activists devolved into online flaming and friends turned litigants. As seems often the case in such groups, what may be thought a counterculture is really a subculture, reflecting the ills of the society it seeks to correct. The author recognizes as much:
the animal rights movement is largely regulated by a patriarchy of white men who have the power and want to enforce the rules by which activists can conduct themselves.
What they mainly seemed to do is out vivisectors; first gen doxxers it seems: http://universityofflorida.us/meet-th...
Marino's consuming dedication and self-confessed travails often caused by herself gets shunted into a personal war with one time friend and cohort Dr. Steven Best. It is a fascinating look into one person's journey into extreme animal rights activism while being very honest of her own imperfections:
I want my errors in judgment to prevent other activists from being blinded by cults of personality that are prevalent in every social justice movement; to not lose their sense of right and wrong in service of demagoguery. Drama and trashing others can be alluring and, wherever humans come together, will always happen.
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