Stereotyping Animal Activists

Erik Marcus of vegan.com writes below about this video. Watch it.

This video’s worth seeing, even though it’s hard to watch, but then the truth is often difficult. It concerns a veggie activist who is encouraged to be as loud, strident, and judgmental as possible — in an ongoing effort to attract greater attention to vegetarianism and to keep more animals from harm. It becomes a vicious cycle, with him having to top himself each time. At the end of the video, he’s probably won a few new vegetarians, and he’s earned a few dollars. But it’s come at the price of antagonizing millions, and getting them to permanently regard vegetarians as dickheads. Along the way, there’s a funny and perceptive analysis of the situation that’s full of post-modern recursive meta weirdness.

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