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.

PPS: Some instances or clients seem to compress the screenshots in a way they’re unreadable. Find the full resolution here: https://imgur.com/a/8XdexTm

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  • gaael@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Lol found out here that I had been banned from the community. Ty for sharing the information :)

    Regarding the matter, I understand their reaction.
    I’ve been interacting with some vegan circles IRL and some are more “hardcore” (not in a negative way) than others. When you consider animal exploitation as mass slavery, mass torture and mass murder, it becomes increasingly difficult to tolerate even light deviations from the all-vegan path.

    This being said, I would have preferred they had a better wording for the temp ban reason than “fake vegan” by which I feel insulted and hurt.

      • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        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.

        • alzjim@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

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

          • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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            4 months ago

            Nobody is forcing them to reply to a comment.

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

            • alzjim@lemmy.world
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              4 months ago

              Maybe what they want is to be left alone in peace?

              I’m sure you don’t want Trump as president, it doesn’t mean you want to go around having to debate with everyone and inform them why he is bad. Sometimes you want to kick back and just say ‘Trump sucks shit’ and not have to explain yourself because you’re with likeminded company.

              • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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                4 months ago

                Maybe what they want is to be left alone in peace?

                Right now they’re getting shit on specifically because they can’t even stay in peace among themselves. This is about one small group of vegans abusing their powers to stop respectful discussion among and between vegans.

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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        4 months ago

        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?

        • glimse@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          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.