New Delhi | Jagran Trending Desk: Congress’ Member of Parliament from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor became the target of yet another virtual stifling on Twitter, as he wrote a satirical response to a scholarly thread on the historic roots of the anger and animosity between UK and EU, shared by his columnist son Ishaan Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor apparently joked about how non-vegetarians are more prone to violence than those who eat only vegetarian food, which raised the eyebrows of many of his admirers and critics alike.
While sharing a thread on the microblogging site, Shashi Tharoor wrote on Tuesday: "As a vegetarian (unlike my son who has re-tweeted this thread), I am easily persuaded by the theory that meat-eating inspires aggression and an unwillingness to compromise!"
This click over 'tweet' icon from Shashi Tharoor's end over such a controversial sentence, stimulated an instant loss of cool among the netizens. Many users pointed towards the factual inaccuracy of the statement, while bringing the attention towards many vegetarian groups and individuals who have led the episodes of violence, however sporadically, during distinct timelines of past and present.
"Are there any studies that prove that? I'm a veg too but none of non-veg friends ever punched me even after my plenty of bad jokes. Although the environmental and carbon factor is much more important than this," wrote a Twitter user.
"Hitler was a vegetarian, we have seen what he did," wrote another user.
"By saying this, you are perpetuating old prejudices against meat-eating people, who on various instances have faced violence against them for their dietary choices. This is a terrible opinion for an elected MP to propagate," emphasised another Twitter user.
Meanwhile, some Tweeples were quick to identify, that the former diplomat stalwart was just throwing a satire in the steaming waters of Twitter, which obviously didn't go well.
A closer look on the post reveals, that Tharoor was indeed satiring over the vegetarianism part of an EU vs. Britain thread in the run up to Brexit, which his son Ishaan shared.
Exploring the historic roots of the anger and contested aggression between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU), a research-associated Twitter handle @karlremarks listed many theories which could act as the reason for the historic aggression including environmental factors and tribal links, one of the possible reasons for aggression was given as non-vegetarianism.
The non-vegetarianism part, on which Tharoor explicitly joked, obviously missed its wit-quotient as Tharoor braved more critique than admiration on the same.
Posted By: Talib Khan