Most people are apathetic, and a chunk of those are due to ignorance. Calling them carnists likely isn’t helping the cause at all.
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mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours agoHuh? What would you call someone who cares about animal exploitation, and what should we call those that don’t?
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 8 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 7 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 7 hours ago
It’s used as a pejorative. It’s disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
I mean in the same way as “terf” I guess
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
So, nonvegan people?
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
The point behind not using “nonvegan” is that it frames carnists as "the normal"s and the “vegans” as the one who have “something special” going on. This is true with celiac and nonceliac, lactose intolerant and not lactose intolerant. But we argue that veganism, i.e. not killing if unnecessary, is the normal thing to do. That the only reason it doesn’t seem that way is because it got normalized through repetition and how widespread it is.
core@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
another user said it’s like how christians call non-believers sinners. that makes sense to me.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The actual term is secular. The ones using sinner are the vegans of the Christian world.
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
So you’re saying the ones who call nonchristians “sinners” are correct?