• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    since furries have been marked as a target for fascist enemy within rhetoric

    Likewise, fascists have been marked as a target for furry enemy within rhetoric, more or less since the first furries wearing Nazi shit showed up at a con.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      One of the things I find myself reminding others about LGBT+ folk, is that we aren’t intrinsically good, just normal. It took into the late 2010s before trans folk got to eat at the same table as LGB; gays can be prejudice and bigoted too, with people like Peter Theil being current extreme examples. (Granted, being LGBT+ gives folks more experience and perspective on what it is to be regarded as a second-class member of society, so they tend to have empathy, but this isn’t always the rule, and as the gold-star lesbian movement has shown us, they can form their own classifications of prejudice.)

      There are far right furry factions just as there are blacks and other non-whites in the transnational white power movement that is a superset of the White Christian Nationalist Movement. They exist, though they don’t represent furries, even if they are eager for leopards to eat their own faces.

      Humans are odd, and to me at the moment, looking at the 2024 US election results, indecipherable, and I hope that doesn’t mean they’re just extremely manipulable and short-sighted or vindictive (which is as it appears). But people often exert their political power against their own interests, and that will sometimes include furries.