• Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    2 days ago

    Why didn’t carnists come up with their own term for themselves? Vegans made up a name for themselves. If carnists come up with a term for carnists and market it, vegans will probably use it.

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        2 hours ago

        That’s not actually an identifier, it’s just the negation of one. It’s reductive and incorrect. It would be like if we called straight people nongay or atheists nonchristian. Of course, all three erase the grey area in between: vegetarians, bisexuals/asexuals, and any other religion, respectively.

        Can’t you think of a word to describe yourself? What is the ideology of carnists in your own words? What unites you, sets you apart from others, and sounds snappy? We’ll just have to call you carnists until you fix your branding problem.

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            16 minutes ago

            Okay, well that opens up a whole new area of words to describe carnists. You could call yourselves centrists, or moderates, or apoliticals, or nihilists. All good words to describe having no ideology other than conforming to society’s norms.