“black-and-white moralism with psychologically disordered eating”

Yeah. It’s this weird intersection of black-and-white moralism with psychologically disordered eating in a socially acceptable guise that acts as a sort of gamma radiation to hulk these people out into total monsters.

The online vegan community sprang up because it’s logistically difficult to eat vegan for most people, so sharing tips, tricks, recipes, shortcuts, encouragement, etc. is important. A very vocal minority of people turned the encouragement part into a weird tribalism with extremely strict in- and out-group status based…