• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Not OP, but setting aside animal rights for a moment, the rational given here is effectively an argument against all social movements

    Saying that one should not ever push or nuge someone towards what you think is right regardless of how well argued or how much of a point that you have

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      2 months ago

      My point is that they aren’t pushing or nudging, they are making a demand

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        2 months ago

        Do most/many social movements not do the all three at the same time? For instance, demanding that voting rights acts should be passed while simultaneously trying to nudge people and politicians to support it

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          2 months ago

          Veganism isn’t a social movement. It’s a culture movement closer to religion than anything. It has special dietary and lifestyle dogma that one must adhere to in order to be a member of the group.

          It merely attempts to leverage existing social movements to push its much larger agenda, as any religion does.

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            I think that’s misunderstanding the goals of those who advocate for it. Animal rights is the movement. Veganism is advocated as a means to achieve that end by stopping the support of the harm within animal agriculture & factory farming

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              So, like, a few years ago, I had this co-worker. She was vegan in the “annoying” way. Most vegans? You wouldn’t know it unless you knew them. In any case that wasn’t her.

              She wasted no time telling everyone that they weren’t allowed to bring meat into the office- that the smell of it made her ill, and so, we had to be vegan to.

              Well. Unfortunately for her that’s not a reasonable accommodation. Not that we didn’t try to make some effort (not microwaving food when she’s in the break room, etc,)(to be fair, our attempt to be reasonable ended after about the third sign declaring the office meat-free.)

              In any case she waged a small war on it over the course of a few days- mostly hanging up passive aggressive signs and being snippy whenever some one walked by with anything even vaguely meat like, (including, in point of fact leftover mushroom stew that is, in fact, vegan. It’s why I think she was full of shit about the smell making her ill.)

              Things came to a head when she decided it was a good idea to to go into the break room fridge and toss everything into the garbage. (Including another coworkers veg fried rice with crispy tofu,)

              Now, do you think that anyone in that office was persuaded to go vegan?

              Or do you imagine that HR fired her ass for being an overbearing, condescending bitch- and a thief as well?

              I’ll give you a hint: the steaks my boss got and I grilled for lunch were delicious.

              The point being: food is integral to culture, and in many ways, part of how we socialize. It’s not something that you can just demand we change and not expect people to react well to.

              Making arguments are all well and good, but they won’t really persuade anyone either. You’re literally talking about changing a few millennia of cultural norms.

              Sure we can have that discussion, but really, if you have to get preachy, you have to get demanding or “dramatic” like my ex-coworker…. All it does is makes people remember that rather than the actual impactful points of the discussion.

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                  2 months ago

                  You know. You’re missing the point?

                  Your methods do not work. You know that. You can see the results.

                  All people are going to remember from your interactions is that you were a preachy jerk.

                  And it’s yet another interaction that reinforces the image that all vegans are preachy jerks- even if it is far from the truth.

                  You are literally hurting your cause.

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                    2 months ago

                    More people are going vegan than ever before as 88 million have went vegan. The chauvinists said the same thing towards those “crazy” feminists and abolitionists.

                    I will not be kind to those who are animal abusers. Stop it and be better. You did not address the examples of animal abuse I mentioned as that is permissible in your eyes.

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              2 months ago

              Unfortunately, there are also vegans who insist raising bees for their honey “harms” beings literally too dumb to feel pain. So their religion loses points by sharing a name with the more illogical of their members.

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                Also bees can and will fuck off if not taken care of properly. They can just fly away, they arent caged or something. The bees being harmed to make honey is literally the plot of bee movie, do you want to be associated with fucke Jerry Seinfeld?

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          2 months ago

          Voting rights =/= dietary choices.

          One thing is others imposing a lack of autonomy on others (not allowing certain people to vote)

          The other thing is a personal choice that no one is stopping you from making.