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Why are comments like "use Firefox" okay on Lemmy while "go vegan" is getting downvoted? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 4 months ago by Salzkrebs to c/[email protected]

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People consider vegans on Lemmy as too preachy. Even in vegan communities here, mods have to remove soooo many inappropriate comments (I read a few of these and they keep getting removed for good reasons). Comments that suggest going vegan on posts about animal abuse are downvoted.

At the same time, whenever there is something about Windows or Chromium based browsers, people here are doing exactly the same. "Just use Linux/Firefox/whatever".

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[–] retrospectology 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The decades of propaganda about veganism by the meat and dairy industry is deeply embedded in cultures at this point, conservative culture especially.

People have been trained so thoroughly that they literally have a visceral, irrational response to the word veganism. It's been made impossible to actually talk about in a coherent way with most people, and lemmy has a lot of redditor refugees who carry that kind of thing with them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is a good answer. Too bad people are downvoting it for the reasons mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This comment borders on some conservative talking about how they're "being censored for speaking the truth" after rambling about some conspiracy theory or saying something racist.

The person you responded to is basically saying that anyone who eats meat is a brainwashed moron without any agency. I rarely ever see anyone have such a visceral reaction toward someone who claims to be vegetarian. Why do you think that is?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Couldn't be because vegetarians are kinda chill instead of militant assholes pushing "morality" like christians, no waaaayyyy! /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or it's preachy bullshit like this that people dislike.

[–] retrospectology 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You illustrate my point exactly. The topic simply cannot be brought up without flailing kneejerk reaction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

And you illustrate my point aswell. Chicken and egg situation, but you're definitely the egg.