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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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Vegans being banned and comments being deleted from [email protected] for being fake vegans.

From my perspective, the comments were in no way insulting and just part of completely normal interaction. If this decision reflects the general opinion of the mod team, then from my perspective, the biggest vegan community on Lemmy wants to be an elitist cycle of hardcore vegans only, not allowing any slightly different opinion. Which would be very unfortunate.

PS: In contrast to the name of this community, I don't want to insult anyone here being a 'bastard'. I just want to post this somewhere on neutral ground. I would really appreciate an open discussion without bashing anyone.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

The "all or nothing" crowd really knows how to stomp on progress, huh?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's like they don't realize that by being this hostile towards any other viewpoints, they drive away people who might otherwise be interested in becoming vegan or want to learn more. All it does is harm the community in the long run, and then they wonder why there's a stigma around vegans. That stigma then feeds into a persecution complex and that becomes a nasty vicious cycle.

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

Is it their job to teach and convert you? Maybe they just want a space to exist in without having to work for others.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Nobody is forcing them to reply to a comment.

Plus, if they want more people to be vegan, then kinda yeah

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Are you "all or nothing" with stopping rape? Or would you be okay with some light raping happening, if the majority was anti-rape?

They clearly view this act as something as abhorrent as we would rape, so why are you surprised they don't want to meet half way on the topic?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Uh, because rape doesn't keep people alive? Because rape hasn't been a part of the human diet since before recorded history? What the fuck??

Take your bullshit whataboutism elsewhere. Holy shit, I have never seen such a bad take on the topic of veganism. I hope this is hyperbole and you don't ACTUALLY think the two things are comparable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

veganism has a large intersection with anti-rape sentiment.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Get a fucking grip, the point was to relate it to an act you hopefully find unacceptable. The point was to make you be able to understand how other people may view the subject, and why they would not tolerate that centrist shit.

Im not even a vegan and I can that’s a fucking weak argument, you can survive off of non-meat diets. It is not in any way required to survive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

why should survival be the standard? I want my entire needs hierarchy filled

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

No where in Maslow hierarchy is meat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That's an insane comparison to make. Compare it to murder if anything.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Nah murder can be done for good reasons, so it wouldn't be seen the same. It needs to be something abhorrent.