Post by @lobut@lemmy.ca

2026-10-15 09:54 UTC

Met a director of my company in the UK that made a joke about vegans. I said, say what you want but they’re good for the climate! He went off on me about how climate change was fake. I tried my best to just move onto a different topic but he just kept going at me and ended it with: “you started it” … to which I said, “yes and let’s move on shall we?”

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@veggay@kbin.earth 2026-10-15 18:49

ha... I'm vegan, me sitting at a table to eat is enough for people to feel the need to defend themselves and their choices without me saying anything other than kindly answering their questions from a conversation they start. It forces one to train the skill of not engaging with people like that. Also he's the one that started it with the (likely bad-taste) joke, not you, but good on you for taking one just to end it. Some people just can't deal with their cognitive dissonance because it would mean facing their actions not matching with their idealized version of themselves, you can't have reasonable conversations with them.

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@XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml 2026-10-15 18:50

I had that happen with some random guy over the Iran war where I just made an offhand comment about how bad the US was doing and he starts going on a tirade about how America is #1 and yadda yadda. Anyway I kinda laughed and said I wanted to move on and was uncomfortable. A couple days later I saw him again and he said, “I looked it up and you were right about that one thing you mentioned but I’m still right about most of it.” Like sure buddy.

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@Jax@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-15 22:22

Seems like that company doesn’t have very good direction

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