It looks like the recent fierce debate over who is more obnoxious, the vegan or the cross-fitter, has finally been settled.
The insane world of vegan Twitter was on full display on Saturday when a “militant vegan” attacked a vegan blogger for having the temerity to admit to buying a crying child a non-vegan ice cream cone.
The horror!
“Pulled up to my driveway to find a little girl crying, she didn’t have money for the ice cream van like her friends did so I gave her enough money to get herself a nice big ice cream with sauce, sprinkles and a flake. She was so happy (and soon had ice cream round her mouth),” wrote England-based vegan blogger Zara.
This was unacceptable to “spiritual but completely nonreligious vegan” Anthony Dagher, who took it upon himself to scold the 22-year-old for her sins against Veganism.
“I usually do not do this,” he wrote, posting direct messages (DM) between himself and Zara, “but I feel like this is appropriate to post since this person is claiming to be a vegan even though she admitted to buying non-vegan ice cream for someone else, defended what she did when I spoke with her privately.”
“Wanted to help others is of course great, but we should of course be helping them without basically killing and harming non-human babies, which buying non-vegan ice cream basically does,” wrote Dagher in one DM, adding that “it definitely would have been best to help the girl in some other way.”
Rightly so, Zara told Dagher to “lighten the f*** up” over the “incident.”
“Mate I’m vegan, my mums vegan and my boyfriend is vegan I’m not about to push the message onto a crying child,” she wrote. “Lighten the f*** up.”
Dagher then “encouraged” his fellow Twitter vegans to blow up the blogger’s inbox apparently in the hope that she will eventually repent for her sin and walk in the truth of their vegan god. Or something.
“To my vegan followers, I know at least those of you who she is following should be able to send her a private message here. Just in case that is not possible, one of my screenshots shows her Instagram account. I do not want her to be attacked. I just want her to see she was wrong, which I hope enough vegans talking with her will accomplish. Please let me know if that happens,” he wrote via Twitter.
Bringing some sanity into the world of veganism, Zara sarcastically and unapologetically replied:
As Reuters reporter Gina Cherelus perfectly summed up, “Vegan Twitter is truly in another world.”
Indeed.
H/T Twitchy