• amzd@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    This user regularly posts intentional misuse of the term vegan either as misinfo or ragebait.

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      4 days ago

      Where are the vegans with the sense of humor to be self deprecating? Until then, others will continue to control the narrative.

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        It’s not about being self a deprecating, it’s that this is fucking cringe bro. “hurrdurr vegans eat da trees,” fuckin tree-bark IQ level take.

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          And I’m saying until vegans create their own self deprecating humor the only kind that will exist is this stuff you find cringe.

          Vegans are well know for being thin skinned. Specifically the ones who are vocal about being vegans. I am away most vegans just do their thing and ignore this stuf, but those people aren’t on here feeling the cringe.

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            This is always the way these things go:

            Someone makes a stupid, nonsensical joke, the punchline of which is “vegans are idiots”

            Someone else goes “that’s stupid and nonsensical”

            Meat-eater: “vegans are so thin-skinned!”

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              Yep. Rinse and repeat. And I’m apparently to biggest asshole for pointing out the pattern and making suggestions.

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                  Are you aware what it reveals about you that that is your take away?

                  I don’t care if you think I’m an asshole. All you’ve done is reveal you do worry about such perceptions. Projecting your insecurities on to me is going to be a miss everytime.

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    5 days ago

    I don’t understand why it’s supposed to be funny to make fun of vegans?
    I am not a vegan myself, but I absolutely understand their moral reasoning for being vegans.

    The drawings are pretty funny, the “joke” is not.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-gooder_derogation

      If someone else is doing something good and you’re not, it’s easier to lash out at them than accept that you’re not a flawless person. Since veganism often has a moral dimension (eg: cruelty to animals, environmental damage), some people struggle with this. They want to be good people, but eating meat is being cast as bad. Thus, lash out at whatever’s making them feel bad.

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        I think that is spot on the main issue here.
        But everybody needs to be able to accept they are not flawless, because nobody is.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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        That and a lot of vegans are like Arch users. They bring up their veganism out of the blue without context and some of the more militant ones literally say shit like “carnists should all die.”

        These are the ones that generally get made fun of the most. Not least of which is because they made up a word to describe people who eat meat when such a word already existed, just to use it as a slur.

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      I’m a vegan and it’s kinda funny, but maybe its because vegans have a superior sense of humour, due to our diets creating ideal conditions for our brains to operate at peak performance.

      I eat French fries, prepackages samosa’s, toast and icypoles every day. Its basically the best diet possible and I’ve started learning how to levitate.

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        From my experience here, most vegans on Lemmy are sad fucks but I appreciate you are different.

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      Why exclude one group from humor? As long as the humor is not derogatory

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        It’s basically one or two posts a day, so a bit more than just including them. OP has a grudge against vegans, which is weird in it’s own right.

        The main problem I think is that OP ran out of funny vegan comics a long time ago, so what is left is bottom of the barrel quality. This comic for instance is not remotely funny and it’s a pattern at this point, none of them are.

        I don’t think anything has to be “done” about it, it’s more embarrassing than anything at this point. I think it’s a good idea to call him out though, so new users understand the situation and don’t get the impression Lemmy is anti vegan or something.

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        Why exclude one group from humor? Everyone should be made fun of.

        OK what are these other groups? Redheads, handicapped, foreigners, women, fat people, small people?

        What are these groups that should be made fun of?
        You are reasoning like a true sociopath.
        Making fun of people for doing the morally correct thing is simply wrong.

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          I say everyone and you go for minorities. “Made fun of” was poor choice of words but humor should be inclusive without being derogatory.

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            Everyone includes minorities. So maybe you should have excluded that instead of using such broad strokes.

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                  Comic is clearly intended to be over the top hyperbole. You’d have to be pretty thin skinned to be offended by that. No one is going to think “dumb vegas eat living trees” based on this comic.

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            That is not reasoning, but examples of other groups people make fun of.
            You are failing basic logic, and failing to answer the question.

            Everyone should be made fun of.

            That was what I responded to. Because that means making fun of the above groups too.
            But maybe you too is a sociopath extremely insensitive?

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                Unhinged from what?
                If I’m unhinged, it’s because I find you “extremely insensitive” towards people that may stick out for whatever reason.

                Edit: Trying to be less “unhinged”.

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                  unhinged from reality. you have no idea who I am. you are making up your own facts and claiming your thoughts belong to others.

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                I could, but those examples are not equivalent except for librarians.
                Nobody calls themselves hipster or beer snob.

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                  If I call you, for argument sake, a humourless idiot, am I still allowed to make fun of humourless idiots?

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      The comic (and you) are pretending veganism is just a silly diet instead of a social justice movement. You may not be doing this intentionally but the OP posts this same misuse day after day.

      Similarly if someone repeatedly posted jokes about another social justice movement, eg feminism, that would get pretty annoying too.