In chapter 6 of his book ¿Qué es la Antropología? (What is Antropology, 2020), Francisco de Paula Rodríguez Valls writes:
Human
beings would be speciesist if they acted according to the logic of survival by
using the power of his faculties in his own benefit. All the other species
would do that, of course... Human beings are the only species that may
not be speciesist by taking care of the entire planet. By putting their power
at the service of the entire kingdom of life.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, speciesism is prejudice or discrimination based on species, especially
against animals. It can also refer to the assumption that humans are
superior to other species.
This is a recently coined word, one of those neologisms associated with the ideology of political correctness, which insists that we shouldn’t upset anyone, neither with our actions, nor with our words, nor with our thoughts. Starting from a laudable anti-racist stance, they extended it to increasingly exaggerated and absurd situations (there are many examples), and in particular to all other animal species, based on the ideological premise that no species is superior to any other, which, as I have explained several times in this blog, is highly debatable.
