When we frame the evils of others as an immutable trait of a categorically bad person, we take our own goodness for granted and fail to notice when those evils manifest in ourselves.
How did twitter manage to make the unambiguously evil act of white people extincting an animal to facilitate commercial ranching and depriving the indigenous population of food security about bashing vegans?
@its_fernando_24
@Ad_Inifinitum
???
The entire video was her bringing up personal beliefs. Of course the comments are going to be about her personal beliefs... what?!?
@poodlewool
The search results for anything bug related are always like:
PEST CONTROL
PEST CONTROL
PEST CONTROL
WIKIPEDIA
PEST CONTROL
PEST CONTROL
PEST CONTROL
PEST CONTROL
Next time you image search for a bug, pick a random image and look at its source. It's probably pest control.
@whatsaiah
have you never eaten fries, chips, crackers...?
any of the vegan fast food options available...?
do you, like, check all your food labels to make sure an animal was abused in the process just to make sure it won't magically start tasting like cardboard or whatever?
The problem with advocating for veganism is that the status quo puts us in an unwinnable situation optically. The shit we're trying to end is so outrageously, cartoonishly bad that just stating objective truths makes us look like we're making up ridiculous shit.
@raerolls
@sleepisocialist
I think it's cyclical.
People who live in rural areas don't encounter people who look different from them -> they buy into lies, stereotypes, and fearmongering -> they hate big cities for having the scary people -> they stay and reproduce in rural areas, continuing the cycle
@whatsaiah
Yes I'm harping on this joke because it's not a joke. This is what people genuinely believe about us, and it's frustrating having to deal with some new misinformed viral tweet making fun of us every week while having any input from us taken as confirmation of a stereotype.
People only care about animal cruelty when the person inflicting it enjoys it in a different way from normal people. All you people will fight to the death to defend your right to (pay others to) do worse things than this for your taste pleasure.
I wish people would understand that asking, "Are you still vegan?" is offensive.
Like, yes, I still care about things. I didn't drop my ethics since the last time you checked.
@Annakhait
@EndWokeness
"Amen" is a perfect response in this situation, because it marks the end of a prayer, a wish for something that isn't currently true
@LiberationPill
It also enables people to frame it as a curse or burden to be tolerated. "Don't blame them; they can't help it!" instead of "It's a perfectly valid way to live."
@geodasman
@MaxMaaxMaaax
@anontwtuser11
No, but I think it's pretty apparent that it was drawn by a child whose understanding of conflict resolution hadn't yet advanced past, "Everyone should just be nice to each other."
@catrussy
Really bold of you to say this after your "i need my steak" tweet when cattle farming is LITERALLY THE NUMBER ONE modern contributor to theft of indigenous land
@WhereTrueLoveIs
Something my girlfriend and I have noticed while searching for houses is that even one flag in a neighborhood makes us feel like we're safer there. It really matters.
the absolute audacity of people to accuse vegans of shoving it in their faces when I can't even watch a youtube video without multiple midroll ads trying to sell me chopped up body parts
What vegans fail to realize is [something untrue/something vegans realize/something that applies to non-vegans more/something racist veiled in progressive language/something that misdefines veganism]. Give me thousands of likes please.
@ConAndDig
@The_GM_is_God
This is a recreation of the accident that killed the son of Saw 3's trap plot protagonist Jeff. Billy here represents Jeff's son flopped over dead on his tricycle.
People selectively decide whether they think vegans only eat leaves or only eat expensive meat replacements based on whether they're trying to call us malnourished or classist in that particular argument.
@robbwolf
Most people who neglect their kids are meat eaters. It just doesn't go in the headline because that's not going to grab clicks from the majority of people.
When non-vegans say, "Vegans care more about animals than humans," what they're saying is that you're bad for prioritizing the literal lives of individuals over the feelings of their oppressors.
@penfoldsfiv
@birdapp_hater
@Luciferisdaddio
@kaekaecurtis
This is my thing. Everything that involves the government extending to people a FRACTION of the help it gives corporations gets labeled as "C O M M U N I S T" by right wingers as if it's a catch-all rebuttal.
Wake up babe
New "non-vegan misappropriating the term 'white veganism' as a cover for a general anti-vegan rant using all the same progressively-dressed bad-faith arguments we deal with every day and getting thousands of likes" just dropped
I woke up and chose beef.
[imani is responding to the comment @/ vegandesign:how people (rightfully) stand against injustice and oppression but ok w cows being forcibly impregnated & having their day old newborns stolen?]
Part 1:
There are millions of people already aggressively advocating for every other social justice cause I support, but most of them actively WANT animal exploitation to continue.
People say "vegans only care about animals," but that's false. It's just that y'all don't.
@katie_vee23
I understand why people might immediately think there's some contradiction between opposing killing sentient life and supporting terminating pregnancies. However, this is actually extremely consistent, and IMO, fundamentally vegan. (1/?)
@katie_vee23
Pro-lifers frame support for abortion rights as a pro-killing stance, but it's NOT. It's a realistic stance that acknowledges unfortunate conflicts of interests..
It's not pro-fetus killing. It's anti-forced birth. Vegans might see where I'm going with this. (2/?)
One thing that doesn't get talked about enough is how the way people view animals is practice for the mistreatment of humans.
There are so many compelling reasons to stand against animal abuse, but this one is perhaps the most overlooked. 🧵
@MsAriesMoon
So what are YOU doing? Are you living an indigenous lifestyle? Of course not. You're just weaponizing your perception of indigenous people to make yourself feel better about doing nothing to help animals or the environment by shitting on the people who are. Amazing activism!
@Ida_Clemens
People often smuggle bigotry into leftist spaces by placing it inside a trojan horse of progressive-sounding language, almost always when talking about problems within a subset of a community they don't belong to. There's a wide range of intent, but it's usually only harmful.
@taydevaughn
@PulOutNWalkAwaY
@bfromthesea
We don't care what people eat. We care about WHO people eat. The reason this doesn't go both ways is because it's not a choice between two equally-ethical options. If honestly describing the impact of people's choices makes them feel attacked, that's on them, not us.
@nypost
This tracks because it's infuriating to be in the tiny minority of people willing to confront a gigantic problem, especially when everyone ignores objective truths to let themselves hate you for it and gets away with it.
@theRealHoff88
@TigerLilyHarv
The fact that so many people continue to believe vegans are protein-deficient shows how completely mindless vegan hate is
@jorymicah
It's unethical to choose the path of more harm when alternative options exist. There are more lower-income vegans than high-income ones. Not sure why you're trying to frame conscious nonviolence in opposition to the concept of class consciousness...
@goddess_3030
@SlimTuesday
"What you don't realize is that this is actually super unnatural and processed and unhealthy blah blah blah"
1. It's literally bean curds.
2. Veganism has nothing to do with health, and actual fried chicken isn't good for you either. So idk what you think you're refuting here.
The fact that PETA gets clowned on almost exclusively for their animal rights activism instead of being cancelled for shit like this or their autism misinformation tells me everything I need to know about how seriously to take people's criticisms.
Children killed daily by Nazis in Auschwitz: 127.
Children killed daily by Israel in Gaza: 178.
Animal deaths: unknown, but many.
PETA: “When it comes to recognizing animals’ natural rights, Israel is leagues ahead of many other countries.”
Also PETA:
This is peak brainrot, honestly. Like, this is legitimately disheartening, because it tells me that twitter has been successfully brainwashed into seeing anything related to indigenous people and immediately associating it with their hatred of vegans.
People are so eager to criticize consumerism until you mention products that are literally impossible to obtain without exploitation and murder. Then they get defensive and retreat into all the comforting lies consumerism has told them about how much they "need" those things.
@ProtectWldlife
This is weird cuz it seems to set a legal precedent that animals are individuals whose bodily autonomy should not be violated, yet it's perfectly legal and acceptable to cause them endless pain as long as it's in a controlled context (food production). We need to get it together.
The only miserable part of being a vegan is seeing people search for the most ridiculous health-focused plant-based diet trenders they can find to make everyone feel better about their apathy towards the ethical implications of the unnecessary violence we inflict on animals.
@sarahlugor
but somehow a majority of Americans think countries with universal healthcare are just hellscapes of people just waiting indefinitely for medical attention
@HulaGrace
"If there's no corpse, bodily fluids, or risk of foodborne illness, I suddenly lose the ability to enjoy food" is not the clever quip you think it is.
It's so fucking funny how these people see a meme from a vegan account politely spreading the message and view it as them having something "forced" onto them.
Like I'm EBARRASSED that you think you're the good guy here.
@McKaylaRoseJ
@jrcamachobass
To anyone who sees shit like this and thinks it's a valid thing to bring up: This person's point isn't "it's not right in the hypothetical situation, so it's not right here either", but instead "here's a hypothetical to distract you from the fact that I'm okay with what happened"
@Kayla__Cierra
@ricchfever
It feels like there's no right answer. I once saw a video of a driver mega speeding and just RAMMING right through the car in front of them. Like obliterated it and kept going.
It's like no one has control of their own life just cuz some assholes have cars.
Like I'm glad people are realizing it now, but it shouldn't have taken a Gazan genocide for it to happen, and I'm rightfully skeptical that people will remember they understand this in a month.
People call veganism a religion, but we're not the ones ignoring objective truths and ethical consistency in favor of adhering to abusive dogma we only believe because we were indoctrinated from a young age.
Carnism is the religion.