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View submission: [TW] Ableism In The Vegan Community.
If you take a look at our documented history, you'll find that this community was created because of ableism. There was a Discord server, vegans of vegan, that the mod team here used to be mods of. That mod team had a little clique of mods who would spend most of their time abusing their power to bully and punish anyone they knew was disabled, and anyone who challenged this was kicked off the team by the top admin.
That wasn't the only thing that caused this community to be created. There's obviously a lot of factors. /r/vegan's second-to-top mod just casually admitted to the other mods that he's a fascist a while back, which caused most of the non-fascist mods to leave the team. When this was reported to the top mod, they said that if it was so bad then someone should call the police and have them do something about it, because he wasn't willing to remove the mod himself.
We're also concerned about the state of various types of online leftist discourse, and want to create a space that hits the kind of sweet spots for an optimal place for well-meaning, if not totally informed and flawless people, to grow. Not that this is strictly a leftist space, just that, naturally, those who are anti-whiteness are going to end up mostly somewhere in that area.
I can't list every single reason we created this space, but yeah, definitely get the ableism, and definitely something a lot of us have faced, especially those of us on the /r/allvegan Discord server. It's why we're here. So, umm...welcome! <3
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