I'm not part of the furry community but I think a lot of groups that had traditionally been out of the mainstream will start being accepting. People who are socially inept or overall bad actors will join not necessarily out of interest all the time but because it's accepting. Those people are also at risk for the alt right pipeline because it again gives them community
Being a Nazi furry doesn't seem to make sense but makes more sense if they where a lonely person and turned to two communities that let them in and got them hooked.
That's a very good explanation for this situation. I would not discount that some folks don't also know history I mean ww2 was 79 years ago. Not only is the history of it in some places not taught thoroughly but also there's an amount of distance that time creates probably making some think it wasn't so bad or that bad actors exploit.
Some people may use it just to be edge lords. The Hells Angels first adopted Nazi symbols as a way to freak out normies. They also would make out with each other and spit into each other's mouths to freak people out
That's true, you can never discount edge lord involvement. In this case I don't know enough about the furry community to really say if it's someone being attention-thirsty or not.
The fandom has always had the "think of the children" group who pearl clutch because gays and consenting adults being adults (they kind of hate that any sex happens at conventions, but especially that gays exist) and it doesn't take long for that to turn into Nazis.
There was a really good post about how the only acceptable intolerance is for intolerance. It seems that "social conservatives" have no problem tolerating Nazis as long as they're on their side about whatever issue they hate, weather it's the gays or abortion.
A real "fuck everybody else as long as I get what I want" attitude.
Why do GOP target trans people when there are so many more furries? I never understood why they don't seem to care. It's disconcerting that the group singularly devoted to hate just ignores them. It's wild.
Did you forget about the litter boxes in schools thing? The "in case of a school shooting and a kid needs to pee" thing that was turned into "furries are invading our schools, and teachers are letting them use litter boxes instead of the bathroom"?
It's not as bad as the attacks on trans people, obviously, but furries have been the target plenty of times, especially because it's a generally sex-positive community with a very high proportion of lgbtq+ people.
OH you're right I totally forgot about that one! It's insane his much idiocy has come out of the last decade that I couldn't remember such a dumbfoundingly crass propaganda hit piece. 😣
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u/TKG_Actual 4d ago
This is an extra weird self aware.