The Crescent
News from Packilvania22 September 2023
Feline Supremacism and Insecutity
Ashmad NajidWhen the Packilvanian Communist Party was defeated by the Carriers of Mercy and a new constitution was passed in 1985, human beings were returned to their full and rightful status as people. In addition to dismantling the laws that supported human exclusion and extermination, the government and Magisterium undertook programs such as the construction of the Imperial War and Genocide Museum to reflect and educate on the experiences of humans and the culpability of Felines broadly in that trauma.
However, we still live in a society in which humans face challenges and struggles that meaningfully undermine their experiences. This is not only because many humans lost their land, dignity and access to opportunities and employment that have kept them behind their feline counterparts, but there are still systems and structures of Feline supremacy that shape Packilvanian society.
Magister Hudayn Jamal issued an opinion in which he suggested that full reintegration of species was not an acceptable practice because it violated precepts of “specistic uniqueness” that alleges the Bas Magdamar calls for. This is one of many examples, but it is emblematic of how Feline identity is still couched in being superior to the other species namely Humans but also Elves, Ursines and the like.
Some commentators such as Shamad Ubrahayan have suggested that old people are inflexible to new ideas and thus grace must be granted to them for their continued perpetuation of stereotypes that are harmful towards humans. But this narrative is intellectually disingenuous because if that were the case, Communism would have never ended nor would Sultan Amhoud I (peace and light be upon him) have disavowed the party he had spent his adulthood serving to bring us to the liberation that we enjoy today.
Others such as Yumayd Kholshur have suggested that Feline supremacism lies in ignorance about other species and the relative insularity that Packilvania enjoys which prevents them from accessing opportunities for cultural exchange. I find this argument laughable because there are concerted efforts by the government, Magisterium, civic society and the media to raise the visibility of human beings; I am an apt example of that. So, unfamiliarity is no excuse.
I do not allege that all Felines are supremacists. I do, however, believe that Feline supremacism is an ideology that continues to exist and it harms our society. The mentality of the physical and intellectual superiority of the Felines and their right to dominate and control the rest of society and occupy a privileged place in the world is fallible.
Not only is this ideology harmful to minorities, but it is also harmful to Felines themselves. We all know and the government has admitted as much that our nation’s past under Communism stymied our economic potential. While we are making speedy progress, and noticeable shifts have occurred over the past four decades due to the economically progressive and competent policies adopted by the Bedonite dynasty, there are still many of our brethren Feline and human alike, who live in conditions of depravation and lack.
This collective consciousness that while our society is strong and is advancing steadily, we are still among the less rich nations of the planet Urth. This leads to an insecurity among Feline supremacists whose reality is fragile and easily destroyed by raw and unmitigated facts. Thus, we need our Feline brothers and sisters, united by the Sultan who rules us and the goddess Noi we serve, to unlearn patterns of bigotry that lead to supremacism, specism, and insecurity.