I’ve noticed that there seems to be an emphasis on being extremely serious at all times, as if every single comment is a PhD dissertation being evaluated or something. There’s like this weird, subtle one upmanship about every little thing and a lot of people are very nitpicky and judgmental. It kind of takes the fun out of being on here, TBH. Or am I the only one experiencing this?
What bad things can one say about vegans?
brigading and extensive use of sockpuppet accounts to suppress things they don’t like.
spread unfounded claims about saturated fat and animal protein
diluting the literature with weak epidemiology and making logically fallacious claims of consensus is truth, not to mention paper count isn’t consensus
no tolerance of apostates who used to follow the diet and now do better on a different diet
wont engage in good faith in discussions about nutrition and health: what-about-isms, appeals to authority, citation bombing, citation bluffing, extensive goal post moving (even if x is healthy, what about y)
a very aggressive segment of their supporters has given them a bad name
That they talk too much about being vegans is a big complaint.
I only see non-vegans talking about vegans on the internet - just like in this case.
I haven’t seen it never, but it doesn’t seem as bad as people say. IRL I never tell people I’m veg just to undercut the steriotype. People finding out a couple years into knowing me never seems to earn any brownie points, which says something.
I have noticed vegans seem more fine with me when they think I’m a carnist, which says something about them.