#the cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy of conservatives will never not shock me

[papirouge]

I hope tate stays in prison and rots. He moved to romania, made a mockery of how the police can be bribed there so he could get away with anything, bounced around, then got beaten up in moldova with his brother for trying to pick up local girls there (remember when he converted to islam? And only talked about how only women were going to hell Lmao all haram what he was doing but whatever), then left for Dubai to brag about laws there being so perfect (hot bed for sex trafficking by men there too) only to come back to Romania, harass a teenager because shes focused on the environment on twitter and get his ass handed to him by not only her but the LOCAL POLICE OF ROMANIA FOR SEX TRAFFICKING God is good and his timing is perfect lmaooo

God is sooo good tbh. It was such a good year for Black women too since several media figures who publicly disrespected us got into serious trouble this year:

Kevin Samuel, a Black incel guru, who made his entire branding on dunking on Black women got found dead after having sex with a prostitute. What a tragic end for a man who mocked Black women for being ugly, masculine and fated to end alone. But ultimately dude is the one who died wasted, alone, found by a prostitute in a hotel room. Tragic🤍

Nikita Dragun, a transwoman who is known to say transwomen look better than real women and argued women stole their style from transwomen, and once made a "Imagine being Black? I could never" tweet, got jailed in a MALE prison after assaulting police officers (thank God such a menace wasn't allowed in a women's prison)

Tory Lanez found guilty for shooting Megan Thee Stalion💅🏾 As a reminder, Megan has been clowned for years over this, with incels and brainwashed women saying she lied, never got shot, etc.

2022 has been avenging Black women left and right and I'm really grateful for that🤍

Back to Tate.

I'm absolutely APPEALED by the amount of conservatives and antis obsessively using Epstein and Ghislaine as some sort of gotcha to deflect from whatever is coming for Tate. A few days ago I already called out Conservatives lack of consistency when it came to call out evil doers depending on whether they were favoring them or not. That's why then went off against Kim for the whole Balenciaga scandal, while not peeping a word about Kanye who was as much linked to this company since he ran catwalk for them a few months prior to this fiasco.

By frantically being like "b-but what about Ghislaine/Prince Andrew!!!" they show that they don't care about sexual trafficking/pedo networks, otherwise, they wouldn't downplay the fact that one (alleged) offender responsible over the fact that others are roaming free. Yes, other criminals have to be prosecuted, but people aren't allowed to celebrate one being down?? Should we, like, prosecute Everyone offender in the same time so yall finally stop deflecting on anothers to downplay such achievement?? "bUt wHat abOut EpSTeIn LiSt???" Tate is THE list. Those idiots are so hyperfocused on Epstein they can't remotely handle the fact that several networks can coexist🤦🏾‍♀️

Tate being jailed doesn't mean no other offender isn't going to get busted anyway but these people looooove acting like people couldn't care about more than one predator. "people rejoicing at Tate have been reaaal silent about Ghislaine/Epstein" is such a retarded strawman that is easily disproven by the fact that there are countless of people (and yes, even Liberals/Leftists) actually who exposed this scandal and have bee asking for names....

And let's not forget how these idiots don't seems to understand that the Romania police did it's job by arresting an offender on its own soil. Why do they feel the need to talk about Ghislaine or prince Andrew when they're not Romanian citizens or on this country soil... If they have a problem with the UK or US police system not investigating their own share of offenders, they should address their grievances to their own police system and stop trying to deflect from the achievement of the Romanian police or bothering twitter users for not doing enough when this is the police job to bust criminals, not random netizens....

Look how they're defending Tate saying he "allegedly" sex trafficked people, when they've been arguing for years some people were straight up pedophiles just based off their name being on Epstein travel logs..... Sorry but the math ain't mathing : if you have the energy to argue someone is a pedophile bc they ordered pizza and travelled along Epstein, than you shouldn't be wishy washy to call Tate a sex trafficker with all the evidence that is around, especially when dude is pretty open about what he's doing (migrating to Romania itself is indeed super sus).

Tbh this hypocrisy is what's angering me more than Tate and his antics. Tate is an idiot but seeing other idiots acting like they were soooo much smarter than everyone in the room because they refuse to see the obvious is absolutely infuriating. They are so far up their own b*tthole they can't even manage to see the light of reason SMH

[theconservativebrief]

Food critic William Sitwell isn’t the first person to express hatred toward vegans, but he might be the first to lose his job for it.

Sitwell stepped down from his job as editor of Waitrose Food, the magazine of a UK supermarket chain, after his email response to a freelance journalist pitching a series on plant-based recipes went public.

“How about a series on killing vegans one by one. Ways to trap them? How to interrogate them properly? Expose their hypocrisy? Force-feed them meat? Make them eat steak and drink red wine?” he wrote.

Selene Nelson, the vegan freelance writer, was understandably shocked — and made the email public. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” she told BuzzFeed News, which published Sitwell’s email. “I’ve written about many divisive topics, like capital punishment and murder cases and domestic violence, and I’ve never had a response like that to any of my articles or pitches.”

Sitwell’s response created a media firestorm, and Waitrose was quick to distance itself, saying in a statement, “Even though this was a private email, William’s gone too far, and his words are extremely inappropriate, insensitive and absolutely do not represent our views.”

Sitwell apologized immediately after the email was made public, calling it an “ill-judged joke” and claiming that “I love and respect people of all appetites be they vegan, vegetarian or meat eaters.” But when the controversy didn’t die down, he was forced to leave the magazine.

Sitwell’s response was beyond the pale, but he’s not alone in expressing dislike for vegans.

One study by Cara MacInnis, who studies psychology at the University of Calgary, found that vegans are viewed more negatively than atheists, immigrants, homosexuals, and asexuals. The only group viewed more negatively than vegans was people with drug addiction. Labeling a food as vegan can cause its sales to plunge by 70 percent.

Anthony Bourdain once wrote that “vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit” and called vegans their “Hezbollah-like splinter faction.”

So why all the vitriol?

We still don’t know exactly, but there are a few theories. One is that vegans make people feel guilty. People tend to interpret someone’s choice not to eat meat as condemnation of their own choices, which can make them pretty defensive.

Other people have suggested that it comes from the cognitive dissonance that eating meat produces: Most of us like animals, so eating them feels kind of messed up — even if we don’t realize it. Vegans also represent a threat to the status quo, and cultural changes make people anxious.

Plus, even vegans will admit that sometimes, they can be kind of annoying.

“For the three decades I’ve been an advocate, there has always been a segment of vegans who have built vast and elaborate rationalizations for basing their ‘activism’ on screaming and hatred (and attacking anyone who is not sufficiently pure and dogmatic),” writes Matt Ball of the Good Food Institute.

Given all of this, it may not be surprising that the number of vegetarians, let alone vegans, in the US hasn’t really increased. About 1 percent of adults self-identify as vegetarian and report never eating meat (as opposed to saying they’re vegetarian but sometimes eating meat), and that number hasn’t changed much since the 1990s.

But what has changed — and what Sitwell may be behind the times on — is how much the demand for plant-based food has increased: exactly the kind of trend Nelson was presumably pegging her pitch to.

Sales of plant-based meat in the US increased 23 percent in the past year. Sales of plant-based foods now exceed $3.7 billion in the US alone. A study done (ironically) by Waitrose shows that one in five adults follow a flexitarian diet, or reducing the amount of meat they eat.

Those trends make sense — there’s growing consensus that eating less meat is better for us and for the planet. A UK study released just last week found that plant-based diets can improve mental well-being and quality of life, decrease risk of diabetes, and help with weight loss. Eating less meat and dairy also play a huge role in reducing the impact of climate change.

Companies are waking up to these changing attitudes. The American fast-food chain White Castle started offering a plant-based burger last spring and more than doubled its sales goals. Sonic, the popular American burger joint, jumped on the flexitarian bandwagon at the same time, but instead of offering a meatless burger, it started offering a burger with less meat by blending beef with mushrooms.

In fact, Waitrose itself has responded to these cultural shifts. Just last month, it reported that its sales of vegetarian and vegan products were up 85 percent from the previous year, and that it would launch its own line of 25 vegan and vegetarian products. Unlike other companies, Waitrose wasn’t shy about slapping on the “vegan” label. The Times of London even called veganism one of the foodie trends of 2018.

Sitwell, for his part, has apologized “to any food- and life-loving vegan who was genuinely offended by remarks written by me as an ill-judged joke in a private email and now widely reported.” His apology was embedded in an Instagram post that featured a photo of the cover of a past issue of the magazine that advertised “40 gloriously meat-free recipes.” Sitwell added that the magazine had refused advertising for meat-based products to produce that issue.

That Sitwell had to step down and issue such a fulsome apology may be yet another sign that attitudes around veganism are changing.

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via The Conservative Brief