Vegans being banned and comments being deleted from [email protected] for being fake vegans.

From my perspective, the comments were in no way insulting and just part of completely normal interaction. If this decision reflects the general opinion of the mod team, then from my perspective, the biggest vegan community on Lemmy wants to be an elitist cycle of hardcore vegans only, not allowing any slightly different opinion. Which would be very unfortunate.

PS: In contrast to the name of this community, I don’t want to insult anyone here being a ‘bastard’. I just want to post this somewhere on neutral ground. I would really appreciate an open discussion without bashing anyone.

PPS: Some instances or clients seem to compress the screenshots in a way they’re unreadable. Find the full resolution here: https://imgur.com/a/8XdexTm

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  • rbn@sopuli.xyzOP
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    8 days ago

    I would trip over your description “a vegan restaurant that serves a bit of meat” as well, because it doesn’t make sense to call it “vegan” then.

    I was almost certain that I wrote ‘mostly vegan restaurant’ or something similar. Indeed, my wording wasn’t ideal.

    You may have already advertised the “vegan” restaurant in good faith […] shows that the owners themselves are not vegan. And then, of course, you question everything

    That’s very good arguments that I can get behind and which I would have been very happy to hear in the original discussion. With such an explanation I can understand one’s reaction much better. From my perspective, that’s exactly the kind of discourse that I seek when I write to a vegan community.

    Different people have different opinions and not in all cases the one side will succeed to convince the other. But still we should at least try to explain our stand point and likewise try to understand others.

    With posts like yours, you have a chance to bring change to the world. If you just ban and censor your opponents, you just keep on dividing society.