It drives me crazy that people extrapolate a few terminally online weirdos to entire groups. Vegans are no more a monolith than any other group. My vegan friends don’t shame me for not being vegan, just as I don’t shame them for driving a gas guzzling car, or purchasing unethically manufactured goods. We all pick our battles. We live under an unethical economic system where there is no way to be perfect. We choose the things that are worth it to us, which is why I’m not vegan, despite minimizing my consumption in other areas. Meat eaters have this totally skewed view of vegans as a whole based on a stereotype that only represents a small minority.
Let me shame you then. Go vegan. You’re a coward for making excuses. Be brave for the voiceless and the unseen trillions that the 99% of humanity victimizes.
We live under an unethical economic system where there is no way to be perfect.
Said the slaver in the antebellum south before cracking a whip.
Listen, you’re not “one of the good carnists.” Your vegan friends have given up on you or never saw potential in you. Don’t feel proud of that. Have shame for the bad things you do.
I don’t disagree they should go vegan if they can (and most people realistically can), but doesn’t carnist imply that they eat meat? In an earlier comment in this thread they mentioned being vegetarian.
Like it or not a large amount of vegan discussion online involves terminally online individuals which makes it seem like a larger percent than it actually is to your average person even of it is inaccurate.
Sure action can and should be taken to change that but that is how it currently is.
Its an extremely loud minority of vegans on the internet
It drives me crazy that people extrapolate a few terminally online weirdos to entire groups. Vegans are no more a monolith than any other group. My vegan friends don’t shame me for not being vegan, just as I don’t shame them for driving a gas guzzling car, or purchasing unethically manufactured goods. We all pick our battles. We live under an unethical economic system where there is no way to be perfect. We choose the things that are worth it to us, which is why I’m not vegan, despite minimizing my consumption in other areas. Meat eaters have this totally skewed view of vegans as a whole based on a stereotype that only represents a small minority.
Let me shame you then. Go vegan. You’re a coward for making excuses. Be brave for the voiceless and the unseen trillions that the 99% of humanity victimizes.
Said the slaver in the antebellum south before cracking a whip.
Listen, you’re not “one of the good carnists.” Your vegan friends have given up on you or never saw potential in you. Don’t feel proud of that. Have shame for the bad things you do.
I don’t disagree they should go vegan if they can (and most people realistically can), but doesn’t carnist imply that they eat meat? In an earlier comment in this thread they mentioned being vegetarian.
I just use it to mean anti/non vegan and carnism to be rough synonym for speciesism ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Fair enough
Like it or not a large amount of vegan discussion online involves terminally online individuals which makes it seem like a larger percent than it actually is to your average person even of it is inaccurate.
Sure action can and should be taken to change that but that is how it currently is.