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

  • ThrowawayPermanente
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    7 months ago

    Because strident, belligerant activists don’t raise awareness, they just make people hate them. I’m sure there’s a generalizable lesson in here somewhere.