Vegans being banned and comments being deleted from !vegan@lemmy.world 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.

Linking the affected users and mods: @Cypher@lemmy.world @gaael@lemmy.world @gredo@lemmy.world @iiGxC@slrpnk.net @veganpizza69@lemmy.world @veganpizza69@lemmy.vg @jerkface@lemmy.ca @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world @Sunshine@lemmy.ca @Aqua@lemmy.vg

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    65·
    6 hours ago

    I agree with you that a boycott need not be temporary. But it does need to have the goal of ceasing the thing being boycotted or something related to that (e.g. secondary boycotts). Muslims and Jews don’t think pork should be prohibited. They simply make a personal choice not to partake. That’s not a boycott, any more than me not eating shellfish because I don’t like the taste is a boycott.

      • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        3 hours ago

        At least it is apparent that you misname and follow veganism with as much zeal as any religious zealot. Feel free to block me, too ;-)

        On a more earnest note, and with as much compassion as I can muster for a divisive extremist like you, your usage of the term “veganism” is a perversion of what a majority of people associate with it. I’d strongly recommend you to always prefix it with “political” or “extremist”, or you’re always bound to lose by default in any argument with anybody outside your bubble because you’re pretty much talking a different language.