Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by it IRL

  • blazera@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Same reason they hate gay guys, trans, renewable energy and electric cars. Toxic masculinity.

    • beefbot
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      5 months ago

      Exactly this. They’re so fkn insecure they can’t STAND anyone living differently from them.

      Me & my husband holding hands in public is the equivalent, to these losers, of me THROWING it in their FACE, as if I’m being so loud and obnoxious plodding around Target quietly putting back half the things my husband puts in the cart