I will clarify that I disagree with this mindset. I think there exist valid humans. Many billions of valid humans, in fact. In this meme, I'm talking about a Type Of Guy, the otherkin misanthropist. Who yes, is usually masc. I'm not an otherkin misanthropist, primarily because of My knowledge of Indigenous culture.

But I do think there's a difference between the otherkin misanthropist and the human supremacist. One's a harmless silly goober, one's a dangerous bigot. The reason for the difference is the power dynamics behind them. One punches up, one punches down.

The otherkin misanthropist will never succeed. People won't go along with it. But the human supremacist will succeed, has succeeded, is succeeding. There is a cultural apparatus which promotes human supremacist values and which pushes otherkin to suppress our identities, even to ourselves.

The second manifestation of this difference is that our current society constructs humanity (that is: the idea of humanity) in a bigoted, supremacist way. The human race, in our culture, is the master race. He is lord over all the animals and may use them as he pleases. And traditionally, he is a man. Just read Tolkien to see this in action. So, transitioning people's self-construal from Master Race to animal is to cause them to question their supremacy and bigotry.

Of course, I believe that questioning can be done without transitioning all the world to an otherkin identity. And that is because I've studied Indigenous Knowledges and I understand some of how humanity is constructed in Aboriginal ontology. I believe embracing Indigenous ways of being and knowing is the key to "fixing" the cultural idea of humanity.

Yeah, white privilege sure exists. The term to resolve that tension is "white passing". I don't identify with whiteness because it's racist fiction, but I acknowledge that I'm white passing, and put in effort to overcome the biases that this privilege and cultural socialisation has given Me.

You may be interested to learn that Aboriginal people can also be white passing. I know a lot of Aboriginal people who are pretty pale. One of My teachers told a story about how her son got in trouble at school for saying he was Aboriginal. The teacher thought he was lying. Passing as white causes a fair few problems for Aboriginal people who may be alienated from their culture by their skin colour, even as they paradoxically gain social benefits in white culture. It's fucked.

But, I think you've got the cause and effect backwards. You're saying people identify as otherkin because they hate humanity. I've never seen that, and I don't think it's a common experience. Far more often, a person becomes misanthropic (or moreso) after they discover an otherkin identity, which has little to do with their political feelings about humanity. Otherkinity is usually motivated by joy in our species identities. Euphoria and dysphoria. We come to hate the system that tried to control how we understand our species, because of how it harmed us.

Being otherkin was a motivating factor in My decision to go vegan. And that's not the norm, but I will say it's easier to persuade an otherkin to go vegan than it is to persuade a human, at least in My experience. Our empathy for theriform life comes from our identity, not the other way around.