Thread by @OneMoreLightLB, Thread: As someone who used to HATE vegans/veganism & now is one, [...]

OneMoreLightLB

Thread: As someone who used to HATE vegans/veganism & now is one, I can absolutely assure you that if your activism is hostile/confrontational you will convince nobody.

You will harm the "cause".
Passionate & informative is good, but being pushy will make people more resistant.

The primary reason being that it& #39;s more convenient to believe you& #39;re *not* in the wrong. It goes against peoples& #39; comfort zones to admit they are wrong and complicit in something so awful.
You& #39;re taught that eating meat is normal, it& #39;s vegans that are wrong from a young age.

So for instance I truly believed, as so MANY others, that vegans lie and push propaganda to feel superior. That& #39;s it& #39;s like a sort of extremist cult. Of course, spend 5 minutes educating yourself and it isn& #39;t true, but that doesn& #39;t matter.

BC the second they interact with you (either by choice/because you& #39;ve engaged them unwillingly) & you& #39;re hostile/superior/"extreme", you have confirmed that belief. They will not listen to nor believe anything you say after that point & that feeds into their cognitive dissonance

In short, the more extreme you are, the more you confirm their biases & allow them to continue to convince themselves that they& #39;re right about everything & your main motivation is feeling superior

Educate - be passionate, be truthful & be direct. But don& #39;t go looking for a fight

And sadly, some people genuinely don& #39;t care about animals. They just don& #39;t. The people who might be swayed are people who genuinely love animals but have normalised eating meat. But some people don& #39;t care. And you can& #39;t make them, no matter how much you want to.

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