lacigreen:

ugh. this is one of the things that really bugs me about where i live.  in san francisco there are tons of vegans/vegetarians that get off on feelings of moral superiority.  south park had it right in the episode about bay area people loving the smell of their own farts.  really, all that “superiority” people feel for being vegan is just a clusterfuck of their own privilege.

like, oh, you only buy your food from the farmers market?  you can afford to spend $3 on a peach?  good for you, but don’t you dare go shaming other people for not doing the same.  until you actually care about how food politics are heavily tied with class (and how class is tied to both race & physical health) and are doing something about that, I don’t see your promotion of veganism as anything beyond pseudo-political masturbation.

One of the things that really bugs me are ignorant people who think all vegans buy their food from the farmer’s market and are affluent. Stop erasing lower-income vegans, because we do fucking exist. Stop generalizing an extremely diverse group of individuals by perpetuating the distorted stereotype that every single vegan is some stuck-up yuppie white kid using veganism as a way to flaunt their privilege. That might be the case in your specific location, and it might apply to the handful of vegans you’ve encountered, but it doesn’t take much common sense to realize that this is offensive to those who don’t fit your narrow and biased description of veganism.