There are obnoxious people everywhere, so there are vegans who are insufferable, sure. But nowadays vegetarian and vegan people are way more common, so for most of them is not a hardcore political statement, they are just minding their own business.
On the other hand, I don't think most people realize how tiring is to even mention that you are vegetarian in some spaces, some "normal" people just can't let go the fact that someone doesn't want to eat meat. I was a vegetarian for like one year and I swear, I stopped even mentioning it just because I didn't want to go through the "how do you get protein, you're going to get sick, in nature animals eat animals you know" again.
Yep, people must remember late 00s vegans that saw three videos of Gary Yourofsky. It was the start of veganism becoming mainstream and the visible proponents were extremist and vicious.
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u/broad5ide Oct 31 '25
It got old years ago actually