My previous stance on veganism was completely incorrect, and I didn't allow it to change for so long due to personal gripes with a few users on a niche internet forum.
I wish to apologize to any vegans or veganism supporters if any of my previous statements offended them or made them uncomfortable.
Looking back, many of my arguments were reactionary nonsense, and I had almost a nonsensical derangement syndrome about the whole thing. Getting into repeated fights with users even mentioning it, and generally being an asshole. I caused lots of unnecessary trouble with dear friends and comrades, who had to deal with the effects of my deeply unserious obsession with fighting specific users.
I let my personal feelings get in the way of a nuanced evaluation, which is very unmarxist of me. My issue with singular people turned into something that warped my common sense.
Although I recognize that I still have many brainworms about it, I want to remove them, and not let pettiness control my thoughts and actions.
A big part of me unlearning was reading through many of Angel's great posts, accidentally happening across some of the old threads (cringing extremely hard over them), and close friends calling me out leading to self evaluation.
I came to this opinion weeks ago, but only now I've publically renounced my previous position to my friends and hexbear.
thank you for this!Also Angel is a force of nature when it comes to veganism, their posts helped me eliminate some brainworms even after I went vegan.
Yeah, checks out. I've done animal rights activism, and I've recognized some of the worst carnist brainworms in the process. That alongside consuming tons of vegan activist content helped me realize the best way to handle them. Congrats on achieving a higher sense of "true leftist moral superiority."
Our enemies hate that we take the 'high ground' because it is the best place from which to attack and defend
hell yea
i think a lotta ppl have a knee jerk, brain-wormy reaction to veganism due to how normalized meat eating is, so it's important to self reflect on and im proud of you for doing so
Listening to 80s anarcho punk as a teen helped there. When British people found out about animal rights in the 80s, those who went, went hard.
the reactionary nonsense was jarring from a strong poster, glad to see this redemption arc!
Hey awesome. Almost all of us were heavily indoctrinated at some point and often many of our most precious memories are deeply associated with carnism due to the centrality of food to most cultural events.
Oh, so you don't care about indigenous rights anymore?
cool it
It's a joke
I DID
I THOUGHT I WAS A GENIUS THEN, BUT NOW I CRINGE SO HARD AT IT GAHHHHHHHHHH
Good on you for stepping up. I know how hard it can be to admit fault on something after you've dug your heels in.
I aint living that down am I lmfao
