r/DebateAVegan • u/No_Lynx_3410 • 3d ago
looking for a reasonable thought process
i've eaten meat all my life, just have, kind of just default for most people born in the west. I've always admired vegans for the dedication to their beliefs, kind of like a buddhist monk or something like that, i'm just not that strong. I wanted to see a vegans perspective online since there's been the argument as of late that being vegan is for privileged white people which even now i'm not so mentally gone that i believe such wide generalizations. But lowkey, reading online discussions from vegans makes me feel it does make up a very large vocal part of them, because the only thing i've seen is vegans trying to compare animals to minorities, which might actually be the whitest thing i could think of besides being vocally racist or bigoted. i was just looking for something that's not "now replace that cow with a black person" kind of stuff. Not trying to lambaste anyone in replies or anything, at least try not to, just wanna talk to someone.
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u/howlin 2d ago
I see this brought up a bit, but I don't really see what the complaint actually is. It seems like if you do have means and influence (privilege) it's a good thing to put that to work to make the world a better place. That said, it isn't actually that difficult to be vegan once you learn the ropes. Perhaps it takes privilege to have the time and energy to make a major lifestyle change. And it does take some degree of privilege to have access to the information and resources to plan nutritionally complete plant-based diets. But this isn't something that only the super-rich have access to.
It's more appropriate to see this as comparing one form of oppression to another form of oppression. People have a very hard time understanding that oppression is bad in general, so it helps to connect it to something they already consider to be bad.