Am I the asshole for responding to the question "hey, would you like there to be NSFW tags on my BBQ [corpses] a week from now?" with "I would like that, thanks."

Hexbear users: a week's worth of struggle sessions about how vegans are lying assholes who are only pretending to have trauma to personally target carnists and make them feel bad

But it's the vegans who are assholes

    • 24324564745364253q49 [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Depends how you do it I guess

      Informing them on the practice and then them not believing you and asking to see a video I could see being okay.

      Whipping out your saved video of a chick blender is pretty dickish to traumatize a kid.

      • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I'd be reticent to show violence to kids just because they're being their usual little contrarian selves. Maybe when they're older and it's planned out. I don't think you have to shock kids to get them to believe you. Repetition will do it just fine. Day 1: in between finding yelling very funny, some kid expresses a doubt. Day 2: that doubt has temporarily become part of their personality and they think it's very funny. Day 3: they fill out the correct answer on the quiz because they did actually internalize it.

        • 24324564745364253q49 [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          I guess it depends what sort of kid we're talking about. I'm thinking like a mid teen, I wouldn't do that to someone younger.

            • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
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              3 years ago

              It's more assholish to feed them corpses without their prior knowledge of what that means. If it's not good enough for their eyes, how can it be good enough for their stomachs?

              • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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                3 years ago

                Of course, but you don't have to show children graphic videos to spread the knowledge and you're liable to get into a fight with some reasonably concerned parents no matter how righteous the overall point is.

                Can't do abilition until we have a critical mass.

                • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
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                  3 years ago

                  Anyway, it's far more common for parents to force kids to eat corpses even though they know it's an animal and don't want to. It's kind of a false panic to think vegans are targeting kids with slaughterhouse footage.

                  I'm not strictly opposed to kids seeing that stuff though before they've been indoctrinated out of their compassion, but it's not like on my to do list

                  • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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                    3 years ago

                    We are burdened by normative bullshit to be effective. Incredible horrors are normalized and walking outside of them is considered the weird/offensive thing, oftentimes. Not saying we should pull punches or stay away from shock or hard-line advocacy, but showing violence to other people's little kids would definitely be counterproductive. It's unnecessary for teaching and will alienate others in the wrong way.

                    The original context is this, though: aita_for_telling_my_sisters_kids_about_veganism

                    I assumed when they said kids they meant little kids but it's actually teenagers and the poster did only good things. Uncritical support for their actions.