Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by it IRL
Every action by the Satanic Temple?
Though they are kind of amusing trolls about it.
It’s a form of targeted religious fairness testing for sure, but I wouldn’t call TST a protest org. Nobody really stands outside and holds a banner as much as just filing lawsuits.
What is the difference between “religious fairness testing” and protesting? Is a protest not just an active resistance to the current legal status quo? How is a lawsuit not a protest?
I guess it depends on your active definition. Sure those are protest actions I guess, but contextually speaking I would understand “a protest” to be a gathering of people with signs or a message at a place of business, courthouse, or similar.
At the intersection of religion and protest I’m in visioning WBC not TST.
Would you consider a boycott a form of protest? There are many ways to show disapproval, and marching in the streets is only one of them.
Yes, but but I’m not seeing your point. What I said in a round about way is this is a matter of perspective on “protest”. Generally speaking, I imagine a protest (noun) to be people in the street, while acts of protest (verb) to be generally more varied. This is by imagination and first reaction not strict dictionary definition.
To really drive this home, I don’t equate the satanic temple or atheism with people in the streets protesting. I’m happy to identify any other activities as protest or not by definition, but we’re really picking at my knee jerk reaction first comment, which yes may have been unintentionally and even inaccurately narrow.
I wouldn’t call them highlighting the hypocrisy of Christians the same as protesting out in the streets. The satanic temple is reactionary.