After stirring up a string of controversies over the past few months, Kadie Karen Diekmeyer (a.k.a. That Vegan Teacher) has been officially banned from TikTok for violating one too many community guidelines.
Prior to being kicked off the platform, Diekmeyer had amassed an impressive 1.7 million followers. She regularly posted videos comparing “veganphobia” to homophobia, berating LGBTQ commenters for contributing to their own oppression by eating meat, and insisting that coming out as vegan is more important and less selfish than coming out as gay.
“Coming out as a member of the LGBTQ community is an entirely selfish act,” Diekmeyer said. “It’s talking about you only. It’s not talking about the things you’re going to do better in the world. Coming out as an animal rights activist is talking about the animals–others, not just you. In fact, it is a completely unselfish thing to do.”
Eventually, a change.org petition was launched calling for Diekmeyer to have her page yanked down.
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“[That Vegan Teacher] has made blatantly racist, bigoted, discriminatory statements against anyone who doesn’t view veganism her way and her way alone,” the petition reads.
“Her targets have included minors under 18, the LGBTQ+ Community, Person’s [sic] with disabilities, people of the black community, various religions and more. Multiple reports have been made against her content yet her platform remains active.”
So far, over 20,000 people and counting have signed the petition.
Though it’s unclear whether that’s what prompted TikTok to finally give Diekmeyer the boot, as of yesterday, her channel was no longer available. A disclaimer says it was banned due to community guideline violations.
BREAKING NEWS THAT WILL MOST DEFINITELY CHANGE YOUR LIFE: That Vegan Teacher banned from TikTok. According to disclaimer on TikTok, she was banned due to multiple Community Guidelines violations. pic.twitter.com/1Y0hDX1ZKG
— Def Noodles (@defnoodles) February 23, 2021
After being banned from her primary platform, Diekmeyer uploaded an angry 20-minute video to her YouTube channel slamming “censorship” and doubling down on her meat-loving critics.
Reports that Diekmeyer launched a new TikTok channel called “That Holocaust Teacher,” which she was using to compare eating meat to the Holocaust, began circulating on Twitter earlier today, although that account, too, has been banned.
The account on TikTok formally known as “that.vegan.teacher” is now going by “that.holocaust.teacher” and her most recent TikTok is comparing eating meat to the Holocaust. pic.twitter.com/XIJhFtBZAM
— Theo ?? ???? ???? (@jewish_anarchy) February 23, 2021
INSTANT REGRET: That Vegan Teacher banned again on TikTok. Her side account “That Holocaust Teacher” has been banner, along with apparently 12 other accounts she had under different names. Currently trying to verify the handles of all the other alt accounts. pic.twitter.com/QFJovRlBcU
— Def Noodles (@defnoodles) February 24, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
twomen4u
I grew up in Central FL. My dad had cattle. A hog was caught in May of each year and butchered in the first cool days in Nov. My dad was an avid fisherman and on occasion a hunter. So we always had beef, pork, fish and sometimes squirrel and rabbit in the freezer. As I am 75 years old I have had no ill effects from the eating of meat and I continue to this day.
I am quite glad she was banned and I hope it is permanent.
Essie
I didn’t grow up on a farm but we did buy two chickens every Tuesday from “The Chicken Man” and they ran around in our yard for the rest of the week, getting fat, and on Sunday, after church, we children would chase it down and wring it’s neck. Best meal ever! I’m also 75 and have eaten meat all my life. People can be veggies, vegans or anything they want but I really dislike being preached to about my choices.
HankHarris
First, I’ve seen her videos and she’s nuts. Second – Its wild to me the hate on both sides – meat-eaters who ridicule vegans and vice versa.
Den
The difference between vegetarians and vegans is huge. Veganism is often like fundamentalist Christianity in its desire to both proselytize and demonize those who do not believe. By contrast vegetarians simply make the personal choice not to eat meat.
Granted, Americans eat way too much meat and the factory farming that causes is horrific, but it is not necessarily an easy choice to buck 250,000 years of evolution. They love to claim they are healthier, but I have known a few that ended up with serious malnutrition.
And giving up wool, honey, milk, cheese, eggs, leather, silk, and so on is a personal choice, not a path to salvation.
Cam
She said
““Coming out as a member of the LGBTQ community is an entirely selfish act,” Diekmeyer said. “It’s talking about you only. It’s not talking about the things you’re going to do better in the world. Coming out as an animal rights activist is talking about the animals–others, not just you. In fact, it is a completely unselfish thing to do.”
Isn’t it convenient for people like this when her version of what a wonderful selfless person does, is exactly what she’s doing.
Monkey1
But Cam, you think anyone not like you is a troll too.
Cam
@Monkey1
No matter what screename you’re under you’re still obsessed with me. Don’t get mad just because your attempts at trolling are so easy to expose.
Now, Roy Ajax, I mean, Opeminded, I mean, Caddy, I mean Durwood, I mean, Monkey1….you know whichever screename you’re using today, why don’t you go back to the troll farm, ask your manager for a meeting, and suggest some additional troll training, because you’re really bad at this.
Go look at old posts from when the Mormon trolls were trying to troll to attack same sex marriage. They were a little better at it then you.
I’m just hear to help, you’re welcome!
Luxury
@Monkey1 Lol. It’s true though.
iggy6666
Cam graduated top of his class at troll academy. Unfortunately he’s never been able to succeed at anything else and spends his days cruising Queerty.
JessPH
I can give up meat and poultry. However, I ain’t giving up seafood. Sea creatures are tasty. Yummm
Man About Town
She looks anemic, which makes perfect sense. Also, is that really her name?!
barkomatic
What a repulsive person. I find it best to avoid all dogmatic personality types, as eventually they all turn toxic as they try to tie everything to serve and feed into their beliefs. Good riddance.
Prinny
She’s a bigot and has been caught eating meat
darklight413
What about those of us who are already vegan? Seems she likes to group people and target them. She should be banned from every platform. The world needs less people like her.
renzinthewoods
Vegans deny the reality that life involves consuming life. They make the assumption (based on our current understanding) that plants have no sentience and are ok to kill and consume for food, whereas something very basic like a shrimp must be allowed to live. They deny the reality that much of the flesh we consume was bred, raised and butchered solely for that purpose, and would cease to exist otherwise. There is much room for improvement in our industrial food chain. But the inherent hypocrisy that it is acceptable to kill and consume a living plant, but not a fish, snail or crustacean, for example, is silly.
jrh311
Only an idiot believes plants are sentient or that there’s any comparison to the sentience of animals. Most humans can live just fine without meat; it is not a necessary component of the majority of diets. Stop deluding yourself that butchering feeling, competent animals is a necessary evil for the human race. Oh, and if we stopped eating them, they wouldn’t stop existing, we just wouldn’t be breeding them in obscene numbers.
trojanboy
This loony is about the worst advertisement physically for veganism i have ever laid eyes on.
She looks like the Slender Man from internet nightmares.
HenryHawke
Another whack-a-doodle vegan, (And I’m saying that about all vegans. Only the whack-a-doodle ones and you know who you are!) By making idiotic claims about eating meat and being gay she’s too stupid to realize she’s hurting her own cause.
iggy6666
Gross, she reminds me of an individual from Jasper, Ab that goes by Monika Shaefer, complete nutcase