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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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Can you name any atheist protests?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Every action by the Satanic Temple?

Though they are kind of amusing trolls about it.

[–] dream_weasel 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a form of targeted religious fairness testing for sure, but I wouldn't call TST a protest org. Nobody really stands outside and holds a banner as much as just filing lawsuits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What is the difference between "religious fairness testing" and protesting? Is a protest not just an active resistance to the current legal status quo? How is a lawsuit not a protest?

[–] dream_weasel 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I guess it depends on your active definition. Sure those are protest actions I guess, but contextually speaking I would understand "a protest" to be a gathering of people with signs or a message at a place of business, courthouse, or similar.

At the intersection of religion and protest I'm in visioning WBC not TST.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Would you consider a boycott a form of protest? There are many ways to show disapproval, and marching in the streets is only one of them.

[–] dream_weasel 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes, but but I'm not seeing your point. What I said in a round about way is this is a matter of perspective on "protest". Generally speaking, I imagine a protest (noun) to be people in the street, while acts of protest (verb) to be generally more varied. This is by imagination and first reaction not strict dictionary definition.

To really drive this home, I don't equate the satanic temple or atheism with people in the streets protesting. I'm happy to identify any other activities as protest or not by definition, but we're really picking at my knee jerk reaction first comment, which yes may have been unintentionally and even inaccurately narrow.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I wouldn’t call them highlighting the hypocrisy of Christians the same as protesting out in the streets. The satanic temple is reactionary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Opposition to religious monuments on public grounds. They are low key and the only violence, vandalism, or public disturbances come from religious folks.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That is correct that they aren't the same. That's why I added the part about how the only issues come from religious folks...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can you name a “vegan” protest?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You know if you do the same for “atheists protest” tons of shit pops up too. Even ones without Megan Kelly. You position is so flimsy and yet you still are digging in. You are a reply away from “do your own research”. Embattled ideology always comes with protest. The absolute unmitigated smugness that one group of people are more annoying than another based on their ideology is problematic at best and at worst, you are a pube away from wearing a red hat and diapers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You make me reconsider if I am on the right side of this, you are such an asshole that you drive people away from thinking of using trump as an insult

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What? I wasn’t even chatting to you. You don’t know who is or isn’t the asshole here or even if there is one. 1 misinformed idiot makes a broad generalization, I challenged them and then you come to their rescue with whatever point your are trying to make? Trump is a fucking loser making broad generalizations based on bullshit and lies. Which, on a small level, is the same as whatever idiot I was arguing with was doing - hence, the mention of the likeness.

If you are saying that I’m soooooo terrible that I put people off of using trump as a slur and or insult, you are on the wrong side of history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bro, I meant that you are being so much of an asshole that I don’t want to use trump as an insult.

Now I understand why you’re hitting up my comments, I thought you were that vegan dude I blocked.

What was meant is that I love using the cheeeto in chief as an insult so much, that I would be sad to not have to use it as an insult because it a behavior that you are using.

But yeah, you are an asshole and I am sad that if I choose to continue to use the leader of the Gravy Seals as an insult, that people might associate with you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Haha that’s it? Your hill to die on is how funny people find “gravy seals”. You’re right, I’m an asshole. I’m cool with that. You are an idiot tho. I’m not surprised you blocked a vegan guy on here, that’s the way! Fucking redneck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Looking at your comment history I’m right. You cheesy fuck. Do you have a red hat? I think you might. Hope you enjoy your meat lovers pizza as you try to wax on about vegan and atheist activism. That’s some real alpha shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There’s nothing wrong with being a vegan or an atheist, no one has a problem with 99.9% of them and they are entitled to their life choices.

The alpha theory was disproven years ago and the ones that need to be alphas have their own issues to handle.

The pizza was delicious though, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh thank you so much for reminding me that “99.9%” of any group is “good. You accuse me of missing context? Hello! How is a sweeping generalization like this not missing the context? The notion that you have the “knowledge” to talk shit about anything YOU ARE NOT is my fucking point. That is the context. Just the fact that you mentioned the pizza and then thought it was clever to say it was delicious just shows you are a discount internet troll that has a par-boiled idea of life but thinks what you have to say is important or thought out. You are full of shit and while you have one salient point about all American presidents being corrupt and murderous, the fact that you can spend even 5 words defending trump Shows that somewhere, deep down, you’d sell it all out for you piece of capitalism’s pie.