What is "effective activism"?

[JacobEdward]

I agree we shouldn't make comparisons to the holocaust or slavery.

I'm not convinced we should avoid using the word rape. Using the same word for the same violation helps put animals on a more equal moral footing. Calling meat murder and artificial insemination rape is acknowledging that the same concepts apply to human and non-human animals. (Treating another living being as property and means of production is slavery but that word needlessly injects racism into the discussion)

Anytime someone pushes back and says forced artificial insemination isn't rape that's a win IMO - simply thinking about the act in a moral context is a huge improvement over not thinking about it at all. And if they want to claim it's insensitive to rape survivors...how is calling out rape and demanding it end insensitive to survivors? It may not feel comfortable but it is right and necessary.

And your argument is our species is of such a nature that, taking this principled stand will invariably be the most effective in terms of activism because otherwise, if someone were to get a whiff of some sort of conspiratorial regime to socially engineer people into being vegan by changing words and definitions etc etc, it would then have this less effective outcome...

Is lying really more effective? If the world is this boundlessly nihilistic thing and your only basis for not is principle...