[Picture: Background: 8 piece pie style color split with pink and blue alternating. Foreground: White girl wearing a plain white t-shirt with long brown hair. Her arms are folded over her chest and she has an incredulous expression. Top text: “Declawing, tail docking, & ear cropping are cruel & unnecessary mutilations of animals.” Bottom text: “If we eat the animals we mutilate and dismember? Perfectly acceptable.”]

[Picture: Background: 8 piece pie style color split with pink and teal alternating. Foreground: White man with short black hair and light shadow, wearing rounded rectangular-framed glasses, and a sweat shirt over a white buttoned-up shirt. Has a smug, arrogant facial expression and crossed arms. Top text: “But if we don’t eat animals” Bottom text: “THEY’LL DIE OUT.”]

[Picture: Background: 8 piece pie style color split with pink and teal alternating. Foreground: White man with short black hair and light shadow, wearing rounded rectangular-framed glasses, and a sweat shirt over a white buttoned-up shirt. Has a smug, arrogant facial expression and crossed arms. Top text: “I am sitting in a temperature-controlled, artificially-lit room, on the Internet, using an electronic device and electricity, to tell you that” Bottom text: “VEGANISM IS SO UNNATURAL.”]

[Picture: Background: 8 piece pie style color split with pink and teal alternating. Foreground: White man with short black hair and light shadow, wearing rounded rectangular-framed glasses, and a sweat shirt over a white buttoned-up shirt. Has a smug, arrogant facial expression and crossed arms. Top text: “If humans aren’t supposed to eat other animals, why do we have canines?” Bottom text: “If people aren’t supposed to punch other people, why can we make fists?”]

[Picture: Background: 8 piece pie style color split with pink and teal alternating. Foreground: White man with dishwater blond hair and stubbly beard, wearing a grey tweed blazer over a white buttoned shirt. Has a smug, arrogant facial expression and crossed arms. Top text: “Animals shouldn’t have rights. Why should humans go vegan when animals eat other animals?” Bottom text: “If my next-door neighbor makes a sexist joke, why can’t I?”]

Perceived intelligence or ability are not prerequisites for fundamental rights. 

[Picture: Background: 8 piece pie style color split with pink and teal alternating. Foreground: White man with short black hair and light shadow, wearing rounded rectangular-framed glasses, and a sweat shirt over a white buttoned-up shirt. Has a smug, arrogant facial expression and crossed arms. Top text: “I only support HUMAN rights. For example, ableism is wrong.” Bottom text: “But animals don’t deserve rights. They’re stupid and weak.”]

Yeah, where’s your sense of optimism? 

[Picture: Background: A green spiral. Foreground: Michael Pollan wearing a light blue, vertical white-striped, buttoned-up shirt. Is wearing rounded rectangular-framed glasses, and has a friendly smile, showing teeth. Top text: “So what if you are chopped into bits so someone can munch on your corpse?” Bottom text: “LOL, STFU. It’s just one bad day.”]

[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style color split with pink and blue alternating. Foreground: White girl wearing a green t-shirt, featuring African-American Sesame Street Muppets with nine different hairstyles, subtitled, “I Love My Hair.” Has a smug, arrogant facial expression and plays with her long, brown hair. Top text: “Pointing out that my crappy choices mean harsh consequences for others?” Bottom text: “You’re just another holier-than-thou [vegan, or insert pretty much any other rights activist here, really].”]

Yeah, I know. We vegans are totally harshing the mellow that comes with the comfort of your human privilege. 

[Picture: Background: 8 piece pie style color split with pink and teal alternating. Foreground: White man with short black hair and light shadow, wearing rounded rectangular-framed glasses, and a sweat shirt over a white buttoned-up shirt. Has a smug, arrogant facial expression and crossed arms. Top text: “Ugh. Why do vegans have to be so preachy?” Bottom text: “It’s my PERSONAL CHOICE to eat animals. It doesn’t affect anyone else in any way.”]

[Animated GIF below text: Eliza Dushku as Missy from Bring It On, sarcastically drawing a fake tear on her face with her finger (“Oh, tear!”)]

Mhmm…

[Picture: Background: 8 piece pie style color split with pink and teal alternating. Foreground: White man with dishwater blond hair and stubbly beard, wearing a grey tweed blazer over a white buttoned shirt. Has a smug, arrogant facial expression and crossed arms. Top text: “Vegans are so self-righteous.” Bottom text: “Humans are so much better than animals.”]

Because fictional depictions of violence are far worse than, you know…ACTUAL violence. 

[Picture: Background: Purple, with Fem Freq logo in the top right corner. Foreground: Feminist Frequency’s Anita Sarkeesian with a serious facial expression that indicates vocal commentary. Top text: “I’d rather analyze fictional depictions of domination and violence” Bottom text: “than reexamine my real-life decision to dominate and inflict violence on other animals.”]

Oh, no, not at all…

[Picture: Background: 8 piece pie style color split with pink and teal alternating. Foreground: White man with dishwater blond hair and stubbly beard, wearing a grey tweed blazer over a white buttoned shirt. Has a smug, arrogant facial expression and crossed arms. Top text: “’Human privilege’? Pssh…No such thing.” Bottom text: “50+ billion animals slaughtered a year isn’t that many.”]