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selokichtli@lemmy.ml 12 hours agoVegans call themselves vegans and they get to call others “carnists”? I’ve been hearing them calling others “meateaters” too. It’s so reducing of the people who don’t agree with their ideas.
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Huh? What would you call someone who cares about animal exploitation, and what should we call those that don’t?
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
I don’t go over my day calling people names. It’s not hard for me to call them as they want them to be called, and if I don’t know that, they are just people like me.
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Carnist is a description of someone who has a meat-inclusive diet, other descriptions of people by what they can or cannot eat are e.g. vegan, lactose intolerant, celiac… It’s not a “name” you call someone, it’s a description of someone using a certain aspect of them relevant to the discussion.
A “name”, as in, something used to insult would be e.g. corpsemuncher, bloodmouth, cheesebreth &c.
lemonmelon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
It’s used as a pejorative. It’s disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
So, nonvegan people?
core@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
another user said it’s like how christians call non-believers sinners. that makes sense to me.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The actual term is secular. The ones using sinner are the vegans of the Christian world.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Most people are apathetic, and a chunk of those are due to ignorance. Calling them carnists likely isn’t helping the cause at all.