I imagine most vegans are just ordinary people. And hell, good on them for making the environmentally friendly choice. I've been excited that my local stores are starting to carry plant-based alternatives that aren't expensive as hell. Fuck are the weirdos loud, though.

Remember you're only seeing the very online vegan.

Okay, I troll the hell out of vegans online, because it's easy and always entertaining. So, anyone coming along after this, take that into account.

But, you nailed it. There's a subsection of vegans that treat it like a religion, and anyone else as infidels. That superiority complex, the smugness is a huge detriment to vegan living and principles.

But (and here's why I made the disclaimer), they're a minority overall. I know too many vegans irl that are chill, wonderful people following their beliefs and ideals without being jerks about it. Vegetarians too, though that's tangential.

It's really online that the asshole hats get put on the most, and usually only on sites/services that make it easy to be anonymous. Which is a good thing! Anonymous discourse is not just important, it's vital to part of humans becoming better than what we are. But there will always be people that hide their true selves until they're anonymous and can feel safe, and that includes people that are smug, arrogant assholes down deep. It also includes people that don't feel safe being an outsider or dissenter, and people that are awesome down deep, but have to keep up a front irl.

Anyway my point is that we, the non vegans of the world, have to be careful to not forget the human. Vegans are mostly deeply compassionate, kind souls that want the best for anyone and everyone, including animals. We don't have to agree with them, just remember that the loudest, most obnoxious voices aren't the sum total of the vegan community.

I think people confuse the Political Based Vegan lifestyle and the Dietary Plant-based Vegan. They are not the same. Most people hate the political wing because they just cannot shut up. I do not want to be subjected to your religion, and you are not helping the animals you claim to. Dietary people just choose healthier options for themselves and don't evangelize to others.

I get the climate change vegans, but not the hurt animals vegans. We live on earth, and in case people haven’t noticed, we have to kill to survive. If you don’t eat meat, you’re still hurting plants to eat, and most of the time we’re eating the sexual organs or the offspring of plants.

The outrageous vegans make the more moderate ones look reasonable to carnists, which increases the rate of adopting veganism.

"indoctornated"

Sovereign: "assuming direct control"

They're alumni of FBU.

This. This exactly. I'm very poor so I can't always afford to buy food for myself or my dog. So when times are tough, I kidnap the neighbours' children and feed them to Fido. I'm not going to starve my dog, that's animal abuse.