Honestly as furry is becoming less niche, more bad actors are getting in. Furries historically have been mostly queer (only ~20% identifying as cis/straight), but those numbers are shifting, and folks who would previously have been ejected are building spaces for themselves.
It’s a follow on from the Anime spaces. White supremacists admire Japan for ethnic homogeneity and difficult to impossible asylum and immigration policies so Anime has a Nazi problem.
Definitely not helped by anime glorifying or at least regularly depicting nazis and not always in a negative light.
Sometimes it's the style and rhetoric (Sieg Zeon, Hellsing, Jojo, Full Metal Alchemist). Sometimes it's just the style or fashion (Azur Lane, KanColle).
I could swear the furry/cosplay community had some issue with nazis since the early 2000's involving Star Wars stormtrooper cosplays or something.
Historically it has seemed like furry had a much worse problem with nazis due to how loudly the few exceptions were rejected. As the problem has grown from a negligible few, there has actually been less noise, simply because there are more and it’s harder to keep up that level of energy to keep rejecting them.
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u/Sedu 4d ago
Honestly as furry is becoming less niche, more bad actors are getting in. Furries historically have been mostly queer (only ~20% identifying as cis/straight), but those numbers are shifting, and folks who would previously have been ejected are building spaces for themselves.