[nur12121]

I was just thinking about this the other day in a happy hour call. People were asking about favorite christmas (crap can I even say christmas?) movies. I actually have one, but then I was thinking, this is an older movie, and who knows, maybe it's now controversial in some way. Were any of the actors caught up in a scandal that should make me now dislike the movie? People may judge that I like a movie with X terrible person. Honestly, I'd rather just not say anything.

[Qwertious]

>Were any of the actors caught up in a scandal that should make me now dislike the movie? People may judge that I like a movie with X terrible person.

I think that's fundamentally a side-effect of the "regulate decency by voting with your wallet and advocating others do the same" mantra of neoliberalism and libertarianism.

People's attitude towards this has always bugged me - "if you really believed that, you'd put your money where your mouth is", and yet somehow e.g. vegans (no, I'm not vegan) are the butt of jokes instead of held up as people who are morally responsible with their spending.

Like, which is it? It seems to me like people adore the concept, but love to hate on any actual people who meet that concept.

[manicdee]

Vegans are the butt of jokes not for their adherence to a clear and consistent moral code but because of their desire to coerce everyone around them to become vegan too.

I have not noticed as much militant veganism in the last few years, perhaps because the people I associate with are older and wiser, or maybe I am just going deaf.

[xref]

Is this “the gay cabal are grooming our children to be homosexuals” thought train, but against vegans? What’s the point of such broad generalizations/conspiracies?

[manicdee]

No, this is the “every joke I have heard about vegans deals with their militant evangelism” thought train.

Eg: “if one of your dinner guests is a vegan crossfitter, which do they tell you about first?”

But thank you for your efforts in attempting to mock my argument rather than address it.

[kthejoker2]

More like the people who love to tell you they're "child-free" or "don't own a TV/smartphone" (or a thousand pro-gun bumper stickers or open-source laptop stickers or punk rock patches . . .

Virtue signaling is like tryinf to help people see in the dark by shining the flashlight you're carrying in their eyes.