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In reply to the discussion: Do People Hate Vegans? [View all]kentauros
(29,414 posts)It doesn't matter what they do or don't eat. It's the fact that they are assholes and seem to enjoy being rude pricks to those that aren't just like them by way of their diet.
As I said in my previous post, the negative reactions in the last few years have calmed some. More people are accommodating (my family, for instance) to diets unlike their own. It doesn't do anyone any good to be rude.
The few assholes I had problems with in my early years as a vegetarian were what I'd call "Exurban Cowboys." That is, they lived way out in the country, kept cattle or other livestock, and drove 90 miles one way to work in "the city" (which they hated because it was too "liberal" for them to do anything but work there, and always in overtime mode.) They were assholes through and through, so I probably should have expected the worst at all times from them.