Broadly, I'm fine with the tolerance. But I don't like how ethics posts get locked on /r/vegetarian while /r/vegan loves their baby steps.

Vegetarian says in the rules not to bring up ethics in the comments unless that's what the thread is about. However, you'll still see posts about ethics getting locked. I made a joke last year about posting a picture of a cow and her calf with the title "Happy Mother's Day" and someone from VCJ did it. It was met with downvotes and fairly quickly locked despite not breaking any rules and the comments didn't even discuss veganism.

It hurts that often you'll see posts in vegetarian of animals being cute with titles like "This is why I'm vegetarian", but you're not allowed to bring up that those animals are being hurt by the dairy or egg industry (or meat in some cases), but if you make the same posts in /r/vegan it's"bacon tho" and "uncle farm tho" and "lab meat someday tho" and "humane death tho".

Vegans are a subset of vegetarians. Vegetarians should be the tolerant ones and we should be the dictators.