Posted on 06/08/2018 12:36:06 PM PDT by rktman
Now, if one of these city kids then decides they're against meat and want to be vegetarian — or vegan, even — it's no problem for me. I was a vegan for some months (and yes, a woman was involved) and a vegetarian for about six years for various reasons, and was perfectly happy as an ovo-lacto vegetarian. Your body, your choice, as they say.
What annoyed me was the subtext, the underlying apparent motivation of the speaker, which pretty clearly could be summed up as "If those ignorant hicks only knew, they'd agree with me."
This attitude, that the issue in any dispute isn't a difference in opinion but just invincible ignorance, seems to me to underly a whole lot of the arguments we have politically today, and an awful lot of time it's an unfounded assumption.
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I resemble that remark! Those city slickers can’t be series!
“Subtext” doesn’t only exist in the food nazi’s vocabulary. The joke at my house is that I drive a Prius.
Bingo. It’s of paramount importance for them that everybody else is declared to be stupid, thus justifying the nanny state.
“An atheist, a vegan, and a CrossFitter walk into a bar...I only know that because they told everyone within two minutes.”
I’m a partial vegetarian - been known to eat the occasional salad or put tomato and onion on a samich....
pry my bacon from my cold dead hands ...
vegetarians who overgorge themselves are just as sickly as any other type eaters.
Pardon my indifference. I need to make a 2nd cup of coffee before I put a brisket on the smoker.
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