There is something in a carnist’s brain that trips and causes them to lash out at vegans, that is undeniable. Maybe we shouldn’t call it “cognitive dissonance”, but if not, we need a new term for it, because it’s real, I’ve experienced it.
People don’t like getting dunked on or looking intellectually inferior. Simple as.
When a vegan makes even a halfways cogent argument, the carnist gets mad not because he knows he’s wrong, but because he knows he’s right but can’t muster the intellectual tools to show that.
No, it’s more than that. The level of anger you face when you point out it’s possible to live without eating dead animals is much higher than the level of anger you face when you point out that voting for Joe Biden doesn’t really help anything.
I mean I don’t buy that have you seen some of these blue no matter who people.
In any case, probably best not to immediately reach for the most self-aggrandizing explanation of the phenomenon as possible.
