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maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

And what would a non-vegan want to do in there?

What’s wrong with minority views and practices creating their own spaces?

On which, is there any non-vegan/anti-vegan thought or idea that a vegan is likely to have not heard already? How many haven’t they heard relative to the amount of decent “pro-vegan” ideas they also haven’t heard of?

Maybe a specialised space, echo chamber even, makes sense in order to balance against the gravity of the mainstream?

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CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Right. Well, I think the instance name “vegantheory.org” was doing that already, and I’m betting you drew your conclusion from the public description of the place too (and aren’t in the modlog or anything for challenging their ideas).
  
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  - CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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    Future@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Veganism tends to be a religion for a lot of vegans and they drive away potential allies because the concept of harm reduction is anathema to their binary thinking. If you’re not ALL in, you’re the enemy.
    
    That is a strawman and a lie as vegans are always celebrating the small wins for the increased protections on animal rights.
    
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    maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    they drive away potential allies because the concept of harm reduction is anathema to their binary thinking. If you’re not ALL in, you’re the enemy.
    
    I can resonate with that. But I come back to … “it’s totally ok for people to create their own spaces, especially on federated social media and especially for minority groups/ideas”.
    
    There are likely plenty of other spaces for “potential allies” to engage and talk about veganism if they want to, or plenty they, or you, could make on their own.
    
    Tacitly admitting that vegans are usually antisocial zealots. “It’s right in the name!”
    
    Well, they’re running their own social media platform, so I’m not sure how anti-social they are.
    
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