Veganism: Everywhere you go, life is a struggle.

okay I guess the reason why I really
went to this video is it kind of like sparked off from Amber's video which is from fairly local vegan if you don't watch her she's amazing along the lines of her video she basically just said it's impossible to be a hundred percent perfect because she's pretty much zero waste but it's impossible to be zero waste she has some allergies and she has to buy like some foods in bags and also her and her husband Wilmore husband I think she said their lifes are like splurged out with like vegan junk food which most vegan junk food is wrapped in plastic so she goes on basically saying that it's impossible or very hard to be hundreds of perfect and a lot of people still pick on her which if you watch her she's like literally like so medium and like so pretty much zero waste and people still pick on her for like not being a hundred percent so I mean being low waste either part of being veganism you are saving the environment saving animals so comment does go hand-in-hand I know it's not the technical definition but everyone has their own definition such as like save palm oil some people think if you consume Pablo you're not vegan although palm oil technically is vegan but it is contributing to the destruction to the planet and to animals so therefore people who take view as vegan so I guess that's pretty much where I'm going with this video is that it's just so hard to be 100% there's always gonna be someone who sees veganism or thinks they're more superior in that veganism like you're you consume palm oil you're not be enough you drive a car that has leather and that you're not being it enough you take medication to some vegans that's still not vegan enough if you still have old stuff that you had her previous to going vegan that's not vegan enough like there's just so many little factors that vegans attack other vegans for and I'm just like not about it and I'm so done there I have personally been judged for not being vegan enough for not stopping consuming palm oil which I actively avoid it if I can I know there's like an option that has no palm oil I'll take that option but I still get attacked randomly for consuming a good ol Oreo because it has palm oil in it and yeah everywhere you go life is a struggle I don't think you get to choose whether or not your life is gonna be a struggle I don't think it's you choose whether or not you're gonna struggle what you get to choose to some limited extent is how meaningful or how meaningless that struggle is gonna be when you tell me being vegan is a struggle when you tell me interacting with other vegans in the movement or other aspiring vegan activist is a struggle believe me I feel you I agree being vegan is a struggle depending on where you live it goes from hard headache-inducing it can be really tough it can be tough if you live in downtown Los Angeles and you have an infinite budget it could be easy for a lot of us being vegan is a struggle living with cooperating with collaborating with getting organized other vegans even just tolerating the company of other vegans believe me I sympathize it's a struggle the counter-argument that I'm going to offer here is that it's a meaningful struggle that it's worth doing now you know if you were complaining about how tough it is to be a comic book collector and you go to these conferences with other comic book collectors and you're getting all this negativity and you know you have all this conflict I might say to you we'll look maybe you should quit comic book collecting maybe maybe you know the game is not worth the candle as we say in French um met a guy in Southeast Asia who's a well-known author researcher anthropologist and I asked him why doesn't he spend more time doing research in Cambodia he was known for work in China Laos Thailand Vietnam everywhere except Cambodia city when you think about it these issues you're addressed to researching really Cambodia is the place you should be doing research you know what he told me he said he didn't like doing research in Cambodia because he had long hair and tattoos and it wasn't even that he was really complaining that people insulted him or had like you know attacked him for having long hair on tattoos he just described like verbatim acting out Cambodians coming up to him and asked like you're a man why do you have long hair that why do you do that asking him why did you get these tattoos I'm like why do you let them be see public obviously this is something in Cambodia within 10 20 years Cambodia has become a lot more exposed to the outside world a lot more expose the tattoos and long hair but this is you know reflecting a kind of bumpkin backwards isolated Cambodia that just emerge from the war and the tyranny of Communists and also their stuff he was encountering these kinds of attitudes not even necessarily hostile just unsympathetic and surprised and uncomprehending they said he didn't want to deal with Cambodia this is what I said back to him do you really think you'd be treated better in Cambodia if you had a shaved bald head exactly what you just said to me the conversation you just described do you think that a foreigner with a shaved head wouldn't in the same way have Cambodian people coming up to him in the same kind of situation and asking why why did you shave your head why you I'd done research in Cambodia I was in a position to speaking that on that from experience the point is here you know I was saying to him either way it's a struggle doesn't matter if you have long hair or if you shave your head if you're gonna go out and do anthropological research in remote villages if you're gonna work with poverty-stricken people who probably don't even have a primary school education backward bumpkin disadvantaged people in Cambodia that's where you want to do your research or humanitarian work or whatever he's gonna do it's good to be a struggle when people are gonna confront confront you about these things one way or another what you've got to decide is is this meaningful or is this meaningless and I'd be the first to admit you know what if this is what you want to do with your life don't get the tattoos or if you got the tattoos cover them up wear long sleeves or something and if you got long hair and you really wanted you know what maybe you should look around the village in Cambodia maybe you got to get the same kind of haircut everyone else has in that village Cambodia I'm the last person to say it's meaningful for you to go and do cosplay or rit's it up and wear this outfit that you'd wear to a nightclub in New York City when you're doing research in Cambodia and that really was this guy's problem he was dressed up the way he thought was cool to pick up chicks in California or New York and when he was doing field research as an anthropologist instead these day shows ridiculous okay you don't get to choose but he was imagining he was imagining that if he just didn't have long hair he wouldn't have these problems no if you had a different haircut you wouldn't even have different problems you'd have the same problem just with a different haircut okay if you think life as a vegan is a struggle you're right guess what if you switch up the terms and start calling yourself a reducer terian or plant-based it's the same struggle different haircut I mean people like to disrespect my truth but the fact is that you know my name is I don't know