The constant harassment and abuse from speciesist reactionaries is what drove us off. But mentioning that part would ruin the narrative that vegans are the bad guys

Reminder: https://archive.ph/Xl1Kd

  • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Can you explain to me how respondents in one survey about views on various groups having vegans be viewed most negatively makes them somehow more hated than people actively being targeted for eradication by institutional power?

    • AHopeOnceMore [he/him]B
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      1 year ago

      Did I say vegans were "more hated"? See my previous comment and please act like a comrade.

      • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        You didn't directly but comment you're defending did.

        vegans are viewed more negatively than atheists, immigrants, homosexuals, and asexuals

        I will apologise for any offence I've caused though. I'm not in a particularly good mood right now and I feel I've lashed out a little in my writing, so, sorry about that.

        • AHopeOnceMore [he/him]B
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          1 year ago

          It's okay and I don't even need an apology. It's 100% reasonable to be frustrated by comparisons between a less-persecuted identity that is a political position vs. a more-persecuted identity core to someone's existence. And we are all dealing with shit we shouldn't hsvr to. Just wanted us to talk as who we are, ha.

          I think it's a good point to say that "more negatively" is misleading in that quote due to it being essentially unquantifiable. And that this could be misused to say that vegans face more personal violence than groups for whom fewer people state a negative opinion/experience (but with, e.g., LGBTQ people facing, for example, terrorism far more often).

          Really, it should be possible to find unity in shared experience and empathy, but I think a site culture that forces defensive posturing is getting in the way.