For example:
Carnist: "Hey, you want a slice of this pepperoni, triple cheese pizza?"
Vegan: "Sorry, no thank you, I'm vegan."
Carnist: "Oh, wow! Nice! I respect that! Yeah, I would go vegan, but I just would struggle with protein, B12, and iron if I did! Like, I tried being vegan for a week and got so sick! I still eat plant-based alternatives every now and then, though! And I totally get where you're coming from with your ethics! Yeah, the way they treat animals on those factory farms is crazy, bro! I hope those cruel practices can be abolished one day. Complete solidarity with you and the animals, dude! ✊ In the meantime, I absolutely try my best to get my meat, dairy, and eggs from local, free-range, humane, and organic farms!"
Vegan: "Okay?"
Like, seriously, just saying "Oh, okay." and moving on with your life would be preferable over this shit.
It's so annoying that I almost prefer the "for every animal you eat I'll eat three lol!" (I hate Maddox so much) kind of carnist. Good thing everyone in real life has been the "oh, okay" kind to me.
Oh my God, I wasn't expecting a reminder of that guy today.
The cringy ass flashbacks to his anti-veganism are rolling in!
The only reason I even remember that guy is because carnists still think that quote is hilarious. It's basically The One Joke of anti-veganism. That and "People Eating Tasty Animals 😂" I guess.
Don't forget, "If vegans love animals so much, then why do they eat their food?" or some variation of that shit.
Totally unrelated to veganism, but this brought back a suppressed memory of a guy telling me he had Maddox's book. "It has a Chuck Norris joke at the beginning!" This was around 2012 or so