{"id":763088,"date":"2021-02-27T08:23:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T13:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=763088"},"modified":"2021-02-27T08:53:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T13:53:48","slug":"the-truth-shall-set-you-free-tiktok-bans-that-vegan-teacher-after-20000-sign-petition-to-remove-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=763088","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE&#8217;:  TikTok bans \u2018That Vegan Teacher\u2019 after 20,000 sign petition to remove her"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Kadie Karen Diekmeyer: Many of you woke up this morning and found out that my account was banned on TikTok. Somehow, it makes you smile to know that an animal rights activist is being silenced.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HANNA FRISHBERG:<\/strong> Kadie Karen Diekmeyer, better known by her handle \u201cThat Vegan Teacher,\u201d amassed more than 1.7 million followers on TikTok \u2014 until this week. As of Monday night, when you search her popular account on the video-streaming platform it says \u201ccouldn\u2019t find this account.\u201d Her account was reportedly banned for \u201cviolating community guidelines\u201d following the publication of a Change.org petition, which accuses her of using incendiary measures to force her views on the public&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Change.org petition&#8230; claims that Diekmeyer used her TikTok to make \u201cblatantly racist, bigoted, discriminatory statements against anyone who doesn\u2019t view veganism her way and her way alone,\u201d and promote \u201cmultiple films that are dangerous to children,\u201d calling her use of the platform \u201cmorally and ethically repugnant.\u201d Now she is challenging her audience to \u201crise up\u201d in her defense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMany of you woke up this morning and found out that my account was banned on TikTok, and I know many of you are jumping for joy and thinking that this is a great victory,\u201d Diekmeyer said in a\u00a0video posted Tuesday\u00a0titled \u201cCensorship: Why Good People Must Rise Up And Speak Out,\u201d that she posted to her YouTube account, which has over 31,000 followers. \u201cSomehow, it makes you smile to know that an animal rights activist is being silenced,\u201d she added&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diekmeyer goes on to deny a series of accusations in her latest video \u2014 claiming she never \u201cstalked anyone,\u201d nor \u201c\u2018forced\u2019 anyone to be vegan,\u201d and \u201cnobody ever got sick or \u2018died\u2019 because of me.\u201d She also proclaims that \u201cVeganphobia is real,\u201d evidenced by the fact that people have allegedly \u201cleft dead animal body parts on my front steps. Eggs were thrown over my fence. Death threats were uttered. Groups of people tried to steal my dog, Bella&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/23\/tiktok-bans-that-vegan-teacher-after-20000-sign-petition-to-remove-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ccksRr8XJOw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HANNA FRISHBERG: Kadie Karen Diekmeyer, better known by her handle \u201cThat Vegan Teacher,\u201d amassed more than 1.7 million followers on TikTok \u2014 until this week. 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