If someone else is doing something good and you’re not, it’s easier to lash out at them than accept that you’re not a flawless person. Since veganism often has a moral dimension (eg: cruelty to animals, environmental damage), some people struggle with this. They want to be good people, but eating meat is being cast as bad. Thus, lash out at whatever’s making them feel bad.
That and a lot of vegans are like Arch users. They bring up their veganism out of the blue without context and some of the more militant ones literally say shit like “carnists should all die.”
These are the ones that generally get made fun of the most. Not least of which is because they made up a word to describe people who eat meat when such a word already existed, just to use it as a slur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-gooder_derogation
If someone else is doing something good and you’re not, it’s easier to lash out at them than accept that you’re not a flawless person. Since veganism often has a moral dimension (eg: cruelty to animals, environmental damage), some people struggle with this. They want to be good people, but eating meat is being cast as bad. Thus, lash out at whatever’s making them feel bad.
I think that is spot on the main issue here.
But everybody needs to be able to accept they are not flawless, because nobody is.
I was curious if a term for this type of behavior existed, thanks.
That and a lot of vegans are like Arch users. They bring up their veganism out of the blue without context and some of the more militant ones literally say shit like “carnists should all die.”
These are the ones that generally get made fun of the most. Not least of which is because they made up a word to describe people who eat meat when such a word already existed, just to use it as a slur.