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

  • Stern@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    if you think internet atheists can’t be just as obnoxious as internet vegans you clearly haven’t been around enough of them.

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      5 months ago

      The common denominator is the internet part though. The last obnoxious atheist I saw was 14, and I have yet to see an obnoxious vegan IRL

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      5 months ago

      To be pendantic, the vocal atheists are more specifically antitheists as in they are opposed to theism, not just someone who doesn’t believe.

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          That’s your example? A sub being the default on Reddit? That’s equal to protests in the streets by vegans to you?