Whataboutism started as a way to point out hypocrisy used to evade responsibility by pointing out some other unrelated moral wrong. It is now used by libs to evade responsibility by denying a related moral wrong. Impressive sleight of hand
They always assume you’re American and then you see their brain short circuiting when they find out you’re not. It’s as if other countries only exist as this abstract notion and only America is real. They tend to think of us as this monolithic abstraction as everyone in a Muslim country, for example, shares some inherent trait instead of a place with its own contradictions and its own complexities that cannot be reduced to their dumb generalities.
I think people are already predisposed to dismiss vegans or make fun of them for various psychological reasons. I only mention my veganism when I have to and even then I get all the weird comments about protein, etc. One cousin asked me if I would eat a chicken if they paid me 1 million dollars or some shit. I live in Morocco and people who make these comments don’t know PETA