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Welcome to /c/vegan and congratulations on your first steps toward overcoming liberalism and ascending to true leftist moral superiority.

Rules

No plant-based diet bullshit or promotion of plant-based capitalism. Veganism isn't about you, it's about historical materialist anti-speciesism, anti-racist animalization, and animal liberation. Ethical vegans only.
No omni apologists or carnists. Babystepping is for libs, and we're not here to pat you on the back. Good faith questions and debate about how to fight for animal liberation are allowed.
No advocating violence to any species for any reason. If you think this is negotiable GTFO. This includes but is not limited to animal testing, slaughter, and mass euthanasia. Anything that promotes speciesism or the commodification of animals will be removed.
Use Content Warnings and NSFW tags for triggering content. Especially if a comrade requests it.
Questions about diet belong in c/food. It's also a great place to share recipes.
In all sections of the site, you must follow the Hexbear.net Code of Conduct.

Resources

Animal liberation and direct action

Animal Liberation Press (ALF)
Wiki on Ethical Veganism
Wiki on the Animal Liberation Front
Wiki on Total Liberation
Different approaches to AL direct action
Earth First! manual and tactics
Support prisoners of conscience: Vegan Prisoners Support Group (UK)
If someone tells you to put some paint on your hands, tag some buildings and then go turn yourself into the police - your "rebellion" is a fucking op

Read theory, libs

Vegan 101 & FAQs

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My experiences on Hexbear have made me afraid to tell my org I'm vegan. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sometimes, we eat during meetings - or rather, they eat. I can confirm from the food served and their willingness to eat it that very few, if any of them, are vegan. I always decline food but don't say why, but eventually, I'm sure someone's going to ask.

And that's the moment I've been dreading. I've been on Hexbear since it first went online. I've seen, firsthand, how much non-vegans - even the communists here, who have better politics than 99% of the people I know - fucking hate us. I'd go so far as to say at this point that I'd be more comfortable telling an average lib I'm vegan than I would a communist. At least the lib will probably just see it as a strange personal choice rather than accusing me of being a fifth columnist.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

IMO, people irl are way nicer when you say you’re a vegan. It’s only online (and probably behind my back) that people say shit.

Tell them you’re vegan. Be strong and unbothered by their questions, teasing etc. Don’t try to “convert” them, unless someone asks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't think our comrades here hate us, nor will your org hate you I honestly don't get where this is coming from

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I notice you're a pretty recent reg so you haven't been around for most of it, but we regularly have to deal with shit like this in our own comm. Hell, even in my recent thread asking for more community mods, we had like three different people come in to antagonize us. I'd go so far as to say pockets of Reddit are more vegan-friendly than anywhere on Hexbear because places like r/vegancirclejerk have large and active mod teams that quickly take out the trash.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been here since day one, this is just a new account.

I didn't really see any evidence that we're inherently hated here from what you posted. Comrades disagreeing about whether veganism is communism isn't hating your comrade. I'm not saying it has never happened, but thinking it happens so much that you couldn't expect any other response from your fellow organizers feels a bit off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think "Y'all really have perfected the art of the moralist bludgeon" in response to trying to clarify my position - again, in our own comm - goes a bit beyond mere disagreement.