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Saying that you personally do not like tofu is fine. Saying that tofu is impossible to prepare in a way that's good is racist.

You have misread me. It's South Park behavior. This type of worldview shits on people for caring; people who care are always the ones trying to change things; thus these attacks always attempt to preserve the current state of things. In other words, they are conservative. South Park didn't literally invent antiveganism, that would be so stupid that I think you should take a step back and remember that you're talking to a person and not a cartoon character.

You have misread me. I did not say that not being vegan makes you a "bad person", whatever that means. Going out of your way to defend the status quo of carnism usually means you have bad politics. Principled leftists have the good sense to stay quiet about it. Contra's particular flavor is to cede that veganism is ethically correct, to prevent both animal suffering and environmental destruction, but to claim that giving up meat is so impossibly difficult that anyone who's vegan must not have liked the taste very much to begin with. That's an obviously silly argument, and I hope she grows some spine and acts according to her stated values, but it doesn't excuse her thoughtless blabs denigrating East Asian cultures.

[-] whoops@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

You're the one who brought up South Park. Cartoons are just not a big factor in how I interpret the world.

Tofu is one food eaten in East Asia. You can dislike one food without thinking an entire culture is incapable of preparing good food. You can say you hate rice and rice sucks without denigrating China. Maybe she loves hotpot. It's really not worth the emotional investment what a youtuber thinks about food.

There's plenty of people in indigenous and third world leftist movements who would actively defend eating meat. Personally I don't eat meat, but I don't think it's a good idea to call someone a jackass or a bad leftist or whatever over it. I can articulate my objections without berating a stranger.

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