{"id":1086,"date":"2009-04-21T06:47:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T10:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2009-04-21T06:47:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T10:47:33","slug":"1086","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/1086\/","title":{"rendered":"Stereotyping Animal Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Marcus of vegan.com writes below about this video. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegan.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/how-to-lose-friends-and-not-influence-people\/\">Watch it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This video&#8217;s worth seeing, even though it&#8217;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 &#8212; 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&#8217;s probably won a few new vegetarians, and he&#8217;s earned a few dollars. But it&#8217;s come at the price of antagonizing millions, and getting them to permanently regard vegetarians as dickheads. Along the way, there&#8217;s a funny and perceptive analysis of the situation that&#8217;s full of post-modern recursive meta weirdness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Marcus of vegan.com writes below about this video. Watch it. This video&#8217;s worth seeing, even though it&#8217;s hard to watch, but then the truth is often difficult. It concerns a veggie activist who is encouraged to be as loud, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/1086\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organising","tag-animal-protection-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}