this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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So, to be clear, the restaurant was formally vegan. Then, due to financial struggles, added carnist options to the menu and alienated a lot of their regular vegan cuatomers resulting in them shutting down.
This was old news.
Also, I can understand the mods being spiteful about things like this. It sends a message that if you're a vegan restaurant and you add carnist options then you will lose customers, not gain them. Valid point if you're primary concern is animal welfare. I'm vegan and I don't want to give money to any business that profiteers of animal cruelty.
That said, I think the mod should just say that rather than banning you. Though perhaps those communities get brigaded with a lot of anti-vegan bad-faith bullshit arguments and the mods are a bit quick to the ban hammer as a result.
There is a several hundred comments thread about that sub on here...