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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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Looks like the vegan admin has an aggression problem. Maybe he or she should at least occasionally eat some meat to calm the cravings.
Edit: /s, for the idiots who did not get it. Wow, are some people stuck up. Do they have the same problems that the admin had?
Even though I don't share her point of view, that part of your comment is totally inappropriate and rude.
It's funny though
Look, sometimes we make jokes at the expense of others. Don't say you don't because we all have and do, all the time. Stop shaming someone just because they made a joke. Have a sense of humor, understand that sometimes it's funny to laught about going to hell. A jest here and there is perfectly fine. Also, it's not like this person was Gandhi, they deserve some jest
Making a joke about someone you don't regularly interact with even on a forum seems to be laughing about them rather than with them.
And sometimes a joke is just a joke. Learn to take one.
Once we get to the point where we are perfectly sensitive to every little irk that any person might have, we will be at the point where nobody interacts with anybody because we won't be able to as anything and everything can be insulting.
I have people joke about me all the time, it's fine. I'm not following this person around to yell it in their face, it's a comment in passing. It doesn't hurt anyone unless you decided to stop and make a big deal out of it.
Don't make a big deal out of it, it was a little joke, everyone is fine. I've been relentlessly bullied for my entire youth, and I learned the hard way that some of the bullying you call out on your own with your behavior. If you cry over every little innocent joke, people will pile on. My bullying stopped when I decided it would stop. I changed, the bullying stopped.
I think it's a difference if you joke about someone close to you or some stranger. Also joking about 'vegans' as a whole group is fine for me. But if you're aiming at specific people with that kind of jokes, it feels more like bullying to me.
I guess even if you didn't know her before, we learnt in this thread that being vegan seems to be a (the?) part of her identity and that she's pretty sensitive about it. To me that feels a bit (!) like laughing about trans person for looking unauthentic or having the wrong genitals.
Gotta jump right to the one that'll seem most extreme, eh?
Veganism is a choice, being trans isn't, that's the difference
How is it rude?