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this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
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I've been active. Any time I share an opinion that isn't in-step with the crowd, I get bombarded by people defending the status quo, insulting me, and telling me that I'm wrong because "just look at the downvotes" which is a hilarious metric.
I got banned from the Vegan community for suggesting that meat was deeply ingrained in our behavior from a cultural perspective, and simply messaging to other people that animals were alive and conscious wasn't going to cut it if they wanted to reduce meat consumption.
I also tried to convince people that rubbing BLM/anti-"all lives matter" rhetoric in conservatives faces wasn't going to convince them to support our movements, and the whole thing devolved into everyone throwing insults out, and not one person could ever explain why I was wrong.
Maybe becoming active on Lemmy isn't a great thing lmao
That's normal "movement" people behavior. And that's why most people never get anywhere near a movement.
I think you're right. Just gonna have to keep fighting the good fight. I guess lol
This is generally my experience too