• MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Because there is a subset of vegans who are vocal about their perceived moral superiority due to their diet. Sadly these are the loudest voices many people hear and they frequently aren’t nice people.

    Most vegans aren’t attacking people over their dietary choices so non-vegans only tend to see the aggressive folks.

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      10 hours ago

      You really, really need to go out your way to find those loud moral superior vegans. Like, look for them, search their communities specifically.
      However, there is no shortage of comment from people who apparently just can’t stop seeing angry vegans everywhere and that’s why, those commenters conclude, it’s normal and good to continue with constant anti-veran rhetoric. Because those vegans, you see, are everywhere.

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      10 hours ago

      This is one of the biggest problems with literally everything. People see the loud assholes and assume everyone is like that.

      So many people think that there are folks out there abusing the pittance they get from welfare because they saw a few people wasting their food stamps. When in reality most people on welfare aren’t out and about to be seen, they’re at home (if they have a home) trying to stretch their dollars.

      People extrapolate and generalize far too easily.

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        10 hours ago

        Anti-welfare rhetoric was a deliberate propaganda campaign. That’s extensively documented, all of that was the result of Reagans deliberate actions.
        In this, I assume, it is also very similar to a perpetual vegan bashings.

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          6 hours ago

          No, it was a thing that a bunch if people experienced IRL. In my case it was decades ago in high school or in vegan punk circles (many of those have significant problens with theor sense of superiority to begin with).