From Discrimination to Extermination: Some Reflections in the Light of Animal Liberation

De la discriminación al exterminio, reflexiones desde la liberación animal

This article aims to broaden the discussion around non-human animals and our relationship to them as a society, synthesizing some existing links between animal liberation, speciesism, discrimination, domination, and extermination. To do that, we will reflect on the treatment of otherness taking historical events as a reference, where human population species has been devalued and made look like animal life, with the consequences brought by it. Thus, we will refer to cases as human zoos, eugenesic policies, rooting out political dissents, in order to broaden our understanding of thinking, value, and action systems, which not only precede and lay the foundation for today’s social structures, but inform our views of social world and the relations we establish in settings where multispecies coexist on a daily level.