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.

PPS: Some instances or clients seem to compress the screenshots in a way they’re unreadable. Find the full resolution here: https://imgur.com/a/8XdexTm

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

    • YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      2 days ago

      A carnist is the opposite to a vegan, the opposing side. If you support the use and consumption of animal products, you are a carnist. If you are vegan, I am interested in how you define carnism. If you are not vegan, I am not interested in how you define it.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnism

      Central to the ideology is the acceptance of meat-eating as “natural”, “normal”, “necessary”, and (sometimes) “nice”, known as the “Four Ns”… The arguments were that humans are omnivores (natural), that most people eat meat (normal), that vegetarian diets are lacking in nutrients (necessary), and that meat tastes good (nice).

      EDIT: this person is not a vegan and is actually a carnist wasting people’s time

      • NSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        11·
        3 days ago

        it’s not antivegan, and no lexicon, encyclopedic or scholarly article would support the assertion it is. it’s not about how I define it: it’s about how it is defined in reputable sources.

        • YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          3 days ago

          Right. So you are nitpicking the “anti” vs “pro” language commonly used in reference to concepts, principles, policies, ideologies, etc. Got it. I think this convo is going nowhere and ask you disengage.