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It's not explicitly forbidden or anything, and I would personally find it very funny to see someone (not me) attempt a neutral write up on the VCJ debacle
Any volunteers?
I definitely couldn't do a neutral write up but I can drop a few points that I think are often overlooked. I've been on hexbear since before the vegan comm existed (on other accounts) so while I haven't always been the most active, I've seen the whole history.
One key point is that hexbear vegans weren't content before VCJ joined. We already had the sense that hexbear was anti-vegan but we were quieter about it. Example (EDIT: fixed link).
There was already a strong cultural overlap between c/vegan and r/vegancirclejerk before the lifeboating. For example, dog diet crossed over here, and was to my memory the precursor to the VCJ hostilities. (c/dogdiet comm request, negative reaction to dogdiet posting).
But I just noticed who I'm replying to so idk why I'm even bothering.
did you mean to link a tweet for your first link?
nope lol, was reading another hexbear thread