I’m Not Evil, and Neither Are You: Tribalism, Ideology, and a Call for Compassion
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
There’s a presumption among some vegans that if you’re vegan, you’re also liberal, socialist, atheist, feminist, intersectionalist, progressive, and leftist, that you’re pro-choice, anti-vaccine, anti-GMO’s — and that if you’re not any or all of these things and everything that they entail, you’re unwelcome — or at least you don’t belong. Or that you’re an imposter. Or that you welcome oppression.
We are living in a time when group loyalty and identity politics are valued more than reason, critical thinking, tolerance for another point of view, and compassion. And it scares the bejesus out of me.
Today's episode is (yet another) call for compassion. Listen to Food for Thought Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or JoyfulVegan.com⠀
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought, the place to explore, celebrate and manifest, a life motivated |
| 0:21.9 | and defined by unconditional compassion and optimal |
| 0:25.8 | wellness. My name is Colleen Patrick Godro. You can find me at joyful vegan.com I |
| 0:30.4 | hope you'll subscribe to this podcast Stitcher iTunes Google Play and of course I hope you |
| 0:37.0 | consider supporting this podcast it is a 100% listener supported podcast, |
| 0:42.7 | and I hope you value it enough to support it |
| 0:45.4 | by becoming a patron at patreon.com |
| 0:48.3 | slash Colleen Patrick Godreau. |
| 0:49.6 | You can just go to joyful vegan.com |
| 0:51.5 | if you don't remember all of that. |
| 0:53.6 | Thank you in advance. |
| 0:55.4 | The most awesome announcement I have |
| 0:57.4 | is that my new book is up on Amazon |
| 1:00.9 | and other stores that sell books to pre-order, which means you get a discount if you pre-order the book, The Joyful |
| 1:06.8 | vegan, staying vegan in a world that wants you to eat meat, dairy, and eggs is coming out in October, November 2019 and I cannot wait for it to be in your hands. |
| 1:16.5 | You can blame the book for my sporadic podcast schedule because it consumes me, but I think you'll agree, I hope you'll agree that it's all worth it. |
| 1:26.7 | Some of what you're going to hear today is in that book and we'll talk about it another time. |
| 1:30.7 | Today's topic is I'm not evil and neither are you, tribalism, ideology, and a call for unconditional |
| 1:37.1 | compassion. |
| 1:38.7 | Several years ago I wrote the Ten Habits of Highly Effective Advocates, which you may have heard of as a podcast episode, |
| 1:46.4 | you may have heard it as a talk, I've given it conferences, including my own Compassion |
| 1:50.4 | and Action Conference. |
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