So tired of concern-trollers saying shit like "oh the uncreative recipes are why people hate vegans" "people hate vegans because they're white single-issue activists" "people hate vegans because they're annoying" "people hate vegans because the food is bad" like 1. literally none of those things are even true and 2. even if they were it's not why people hate vegans.
also somewhat unrelated but i'm going to soapbox about substitutions: complaining about vegan substitutions is almost always anti-vegan unless it's a person having specific qualms with a specific thing. but there are people who will shit on substitutions as a whole concept and pretend they're so original and have the highest opinions of food ever created. like I'm sick and tired of non-vegans (and vegans too) complaining about tofu being used as a substitute in a lot of vegan dishes. just let people enjoy their goddamn food in peace.
I got told the "this is why people hate [us] vegans" line by an apologist today simply because I said "Purchasing animal products is funding animal slaughter." You can't make this shit up. It was under a post condoning reducetarianism with this "totally, rational, pragmatic, and sensible middle ground" quote (written verbatim):
We need millions of people reducing the amount of racist acts they commit instead of just a few "perfect" anti-racists, right?
Apologists literally make my blood boil more than carnists a lot of times.