Stupidity is Real: Vegan Activism is a Joke.

15 August 2020 [link youtube]


There's a (long!) follow-up video, discussing further this idea of "inverse meritocracy" being central to what's wrong with vegan activism. Title: The Vegan Movement as "Meritocracy": James Aspey = Why I Quit Veganism. Link: https://youtu.be/MTDMSF8j1gM

I think the first two minutes of that (i.e., the video that I've just linked to) will very naturally transition from this five minute clip very well.

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i don't know if it's a philosophical
question or not but do you think that you need to be at a certain level of intelligence to be vegan no but you know i do believe veganism is for everybody in the same sense that being a non-smoker is for everybody or being a teetotaler because sobriety is for everybody put it that way because i think it is for everybody i think it can be practiced by everybody but advocacy promoting veganism being a leader in the vegan movement being a voice for veganism is not fruit we had a knock at the door you could probably share it there not everyone can go into a prison and talk to the prison inmates about sobriety and how to quit heroin and how to how to live your life without ever drinking alcohol and without smoking cigarettes without using weed that's advocacy or that's activism that's intervention that the special type of person the special characteristics the special corporation do that as opposed to just being sober yourself gary yourofsky gave lectures in high schools who could possibly be a worse representative of veganism to go into high schools and represent this movement and this diet and the ethics and the ecology than gary yourofsky moon and rock moon and rock are even worse people like this on youtube are even worse representatives and i know it's a very different form of acting a very different platform moon and rock are not literally going to high schools i think high school students are clicking on this and watching this on youtube and so on but this is my point i don't want to talk about this in the abstract real world who represents this movement these people choose themselves people like freelee people like gary yourofsky people like moon iraq and they become leaders in a totally inverse meritocracy what's the main characteristic that's rewarding these people telling their audience something they already want to hear and we all know the vegan message is not what people already want to hear so it may be an arisats concoction of yoga math spirituality and mother earth ideology and all this crap and they're not the only ones we know some other channels like that within the vegan wand where it's this really weird self-invented you know pseudo-religion whatever it is that's the link that brings people in right and whatever it was about gary yourofsky and so on the people that people found appealing but it's it's the worst people it is the worst who are representing veganism and you know what the good news is veganism is making progress despite vegans the movement sucks the movement has been a failure in the last five years but guess what we saw sitting in the airport today we're sitting in dallas texas airport and there's like a 15-minute special on cnn that was today within the last 24 hours we've been in airports all day we're doing this with three hours of sleep cnn presenting perfectly the case for why veganism is an inevitable ethical requirement given current ecological and ethical considerations and they were doing a better job than gary yourofsky and of course a better job than moon and brock or any of these people that's cnn and i said to you at the time i said look despite the fact that the movement has fallen apart despite the fact that the movement is garbage we're still winning like the truth of this message is so important and so self-evident that cnn is picking up the wrong weather just a couple days ago maybe about a week ago of the economist so the economist is a magazine but they also now have a website and youtube channel the economist put up an argument for veganism maybe that was two weeks ago sorry but quite recently and i don't know if you bothered to see that it was boring for me because i already know this stuff but it was exactly the arguments about scaling up uh alternatives to meat and you know as you as they increase in scale environmental effects efficiency water use blah blah blah but the conclusion was really clear again basically what is your what is your excuse for not being vegan in the cnn piece they asked one of the advocates so i think he was a scientist working on a lab-grown meat so fake meat substitutes they asked him are you vegan and he admitted on camera no i know i should be like i know i ought to be but i'm not and the whole thing was framed in that way was like given these so this is the reality is that the vegan message is so important and so timely and so salient that the people who might be our enemies are doing a better job promoting it than the people who are ostensibly our friends scumbags like moon and rock whose whole concept of life is just self-indulgence [Music] look how much that looks great [Music] you