People for the Ethical Treatment’s Matt Prescott was in Boston in May doing his best to defend PETA’s “Holocaust on a Plate” campaign. Frankly this stuff is starting to get boring — PETA’s gotten its 15 minutes out of offending elderly Holocaust survivors; it’s time to move on to the next publicity stunt.
But regardless there Prescott was trying to deny the obvious when speaking to The Boston Herald,
We’re simply saying that the message and mindset of the Holocaust is the same one used to justify the killing of animals — that might makes right.
The Holocaust can be explained by nothing more than “might makes right?” Somebody tell all those Holocaust historians they can go home. Rampant anti-Semitism, authoritarian cultures, Aryan Romanticism, economic chaos . . . forget all that, Prescott says it was all about might makes right and who are we to argue with that?
Prescott continues (emphasis added),
Our goal isn’t to offend, but we do feel people need to be shocked before they can accept their own role in any injustice.
Right, when PETA puts up a sign saying, “To animals all people are Nazis,” it never in a million years had any intention of offending anyone.
Source:
PETA draws scorn over Holocaust campaign. Steve Marantz, The Boston Herald, May 17, 2003.