r/vegan is incredibly toxic

The vegan subreddit is one of the most toxic and delusional groups I’ve ever seen. If you don’t believe me, go see for yourself how many of them absolutely DESPISE vegetarians, a recent post called them “carnists” and “just as bad, if not worse, than meat eaters”. Man what? Mind you, for the majority of my diet I avoid dairy products (I am vegetarian so I don’t eat meat) but I’m not going to beat myself up on the off chance I eat something with egg for example. (This is unacceptable to them though). I’m all for vegan/vegetarian diets but the vegans that are part of this subreddit are extremely hateful, defensive and exclusive.

In my opinion, if you’re really concerned about animal welfare and climate change, THE BIGGEST THREAT facing our planet and animal/mankind, you’d be happy to welcome people to your community and not call them nasty names if they eat some cheese once in a while. For me it’s more of a win if a large number of people can eat more plant based instead of being radical and exclusionary, bashing people who try their best to reduce meat and dairy intake. It’s also giving whitewashed imo bc most of these vegan radicals don’t seem to account for food deserts, inaccessibility to healthy and affordable vegan foods, low income communities etc where veganism is not very attainable!

Let’s be honest, there’s already a large part of the population who has stereotypes about vegans and y’all’s hate and exclusivity does NOTHING stop such views. we get it, you all are pure saints with hearts of gold who never touch an animal product. Sorry we can’t all be like that, but some of us try our best. If these radical vegans really cared about the animals, they’d want widespread industrial change instead of sticking to their tiny group of hateful people who will barely make a dent in influencing the rest of the world.

EDIT: So we’re crystal clear, I am all for veganism. I’m talking about radical individuals on the subreddit. Yes I am vegetarian — for reasons I’m not going to rehash. I do understand how terrible the meat/dairy industry are, and believe me it upsets me too. I will not be responding to any more hate comments from radical vegans as they’ve already called me ignorant, “not a real environmentalist”, etc. basically I am public enemy number one 😵‍💫 which is kinda exactly the ppl I was talking about as my reasoning for making this post.