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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

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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's just incorrect. It's pretty common not to find out until you're talking about what to eat. I would imagine you've met vegans that you simply don't know are vegan yet.

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are enough vegans who absolutely discuss their diet immediately to keep the joke alive. Given how difficult and isolating it can be in many places, I get how it can become really core to one’s identity.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Very fair. My core point remains that it's all about that

in many places

though. If you live in a region with more than a handful of vegans, you find very differently. It's a personal pet peeve of mine when people try to paint their own experiences as "most people", and all of any group as being just like those members they have met and are thinking about. It completely ignores several distinct internal mental biases, that are themselves making our world shittier because they lead to inaccurate conclusions, and are fairly natural unless you've received training to be made aware of them.

Statistical selection bias, confirmation bias, etc.

Because of this, it's less a joke to me, and more just a pain in the ass. And I'm a happy carnivore that also does not like being preached to.