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Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it IRL

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because the morals is on their side. Society should be disrupted everyday until animal exploitation ends.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Funny is that I have only seen Anti Vegan threads on here. Like, who is the annoying one?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I have no issues with veganism but I do have issues with being attacked because I'm not vegan. I've been attacked for using cow milk even after explaining that I can't use plant milk because of sensory issues.

Funnily enough, just like you said, I know vegans IRL who would never behave that way and of course I accommodate their dietary choices when I'm in charge of food.

I think it's mostly an Internet thing when you just see the loudest minority instead of the more quiet majority.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

because vegans never, ever, miss an opportunity to tell you they hope the blood of baby seals that went into your burger was worth it

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (11 children)

100% it's just cognative dissonance. Everyone knows meat is bad but most can't come to terms that they're too weak to quit it. This is especially painful when people are confronted directly and a self-defence mechanism kicks in.

It's ok to be a bit weak sometimes, everyone has a lot of going and has to choose their battles. Our contemporary culture hates to acknowledge this thus creating a lot of binary tension.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

For me it's the high-horse holier than thou attitude most of them seem to carry in online conversations. I know a fee vegans and they are mostly fine in person after the first few months of radicalization, but I imagine they just suppress it in person to maintain the acquaintanceship and then bitch in their vegan echo chambers about how "my co-worker who knows I'm vegan had the audacity to order a hamburger and eat it in front of me knowing I'm vegan, does he know he's destroying the world with that Burger... AITA?"

If you're looking for scientific answers, good luck they, Inrhjnjbmost people stop worrying about micromanaging people after a few years of academia.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

There is a push from the meat industry to make hating veganism the cool thing is what I feel is going on. Some militant vegans are honestly annoying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Right. I see what you mean but I think what you're asking for is impossible to ascertain

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

For me, it's this subset of vegans:

Me: want a burger? V: No thanks, I'm vegan. Me: Oh, cool. Well there's egg and cheese in the salad dressing so you'll want to avoid that too, but I have some black bean patties in the freezer if you want. V: Do you know how bad meat is for your body? Me: Yeah I actually do, but we all make our own decisions about self-harm, don't we? V: Factory farms are cruel and sadistic! Me: Agreed. That's why I buy from a local butcher. V: RAISING MEAT IS DESTROYING THE PLANET! Me: Corporations are destroying the planet. Now fuck off and let me enjoy my burger in peace.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah this conversation definitely happened like that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Hey why are the corporations doing that exactly? What's their motive?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

This could be a textbook example of a strawman.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Defensiveness

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