‘SPECISME SEXISME RACISME LES VRAIS INVISIBLES!

While I was walking around the city of Bourges in central France, which is forty minutes north of the village where I have my house, and from where I’m writing this post, I noticed this prominently sited mural that declares: ‘SPECISME SEXISME RACISME LES VRAIS INVISIBLES! (Species-ism, Sexism, Racism The True Invisibles!) What especially struck me was the presence of the first term, which I hadn’t really considered so obviously a characteristic dimension of the by now other two familiar ‘systemic’ prejudices blighting society. But because of humanly driven climate change we are certainly going to hear much, much more about systemic ‘species-ism’.