Seriously.
Transgender people were a big wedge issue used to flip who knows how many fools to voting fash, or just not bothering to vote against them. Scumbags look for somebody to hate, smash the hate speech button until they find one that doesn’t make people feel too bad about themselves, and get everybody disgusted about some disgusting weirdos that don’t deserve rights.
If social progress somehow makes it through the barrier of fuckery that has been erected against it right now, if transgender people become more accepted, who is the next target for nazis? They never stopped targeting Jewish people and racial minorities and the disabled and women, just tuned that whistle high enough to harvest a few demographic traitors. In this election it was all about “illegals” and “perverts trying to trans your kids.” And somewhere in all that ruckus, they tried on a new target for size.
Furries. They’re going after furries next. I am not shitting you. The time to try and move the needle on furry rights is now. Get people to accept furries whenever you can. Turn the conversations around, when people talk about how disgusting and creepy they are. Who are you to judge, Nancy? I seen what you’re into, Fred.
Anyway, for my part, I’m throwing open the barn stables right now. Bébé Mélange is a furry ally. I may not always be the best ally, but I’ll try to improve.
This gets into a territory of “is this an immutable characteristic,” like can you change this about yourself if you want to? People will try that on as a way to say furries don’t need protection. But I think, nuh. I know the transgender experience is highly variable, and for some of us, it might feel like a choice – like for safety, some of us could detrans and ride out the rest of their life, without committing triple turbo suicides immediately. But even for those people, they deserve trans rights. Likewise, if being a furry is totally optional for all furries? So what?
There are some lines I’ll have to scribble here and there on the big perv tent, like, I’m not gonna stump on Capitol Hill for age regression RP and diaper play. People should be able to do that too, but it feels less like something you could do non-sexually at the office on Monday… I dunno. I don’t know anything.
But I know this. Furry rights now!
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Furries are an unlikely target for the right. They mostly favor a cartoon animal styling and are just too silly to be a big target. If they tried to build some dark conspiracy about furries working to undermine the government people would laugh at them. They can’t be made to look threatening enough to frighten people as a group.
The bible doesn’t have anything that can be warped into a condemnation of furries. It’s too modern and small of a group to have attracted religious notice.
Plus there is that little nazi furry sub-sub culture and you know there are some alt-right guys who are dressing up as furries so they can dress up in nazi gear and walk around in a group. They wouldn’t want to upset their little party and would direct aim towards other groups.
eh, ya might be right. any furries wanna drop a counterpoint in here?
incidentally the person that leaked the no fly list was an obscurely gendered furry, so a comrade. props.
This makes sense to me.
I mean, I can’t be the only one who remembers the right-wing freakout over “litterboxes in classrooms” thing a couple years back or so.
And, any time the right gets this sorta power, they tend to add “sexual deviants” to the list of enemies/targets.
Hell, over on PZ’s blog relatively recently, wasn’t there a post about how (straight) sex for pleasure and not reproduction is somehow “gay” according to some right wing assholes.
Or like Marcus mentioned in a blog post a bit ago, this whole project 2025 thing is also trying to ban pornography
the litterbox thing is that to which I alluded, as them trying a new target on for size. furries are used as a stand-in for demonstrating how being transgender is absurd – you expect me to think you’re the opposite sex, are you gonna ask me to say you’re a dolphin next? see one of the most hateful and evil episodes of south park ever. i could pick up parker and stone like javelins and toss them at mach two through the foundation of mar-a-lago.
Only counter point I would say is they already were coming after us. Look up the litter boxes in classrooms hoax from a couple of years ago.
Furries have already been targeted by the far right. There has been a manufactured moral panic around “litterboxes” in schools that is a thinly veiled dog-whistle for trans kids and gender-neutral bathrooms spreading widely since about 2021. Nearly every school board in America has had to deal with a pearl-clutching parent interrupting a meeting to express worry about fictional cat-kids and schools catering to their desire to poop in a box without question. Hundreds or thousands of hours have been wasted on this. Every school board has had to send out communications to parents that this moral panic was a fabricated lie spread on anti-trans facebook groups. This panic has spread all over the world, and you can easily look up “litterbox” and “school” from a trusted new source and see it in your state or country. US Congress people have already used furries as a wedge issue to make them appear tough. I have no doubt that in the coming years we will see a ridiculous law being drafted targeting furries in some way.
A school in Utah had kids walk-out and strike as a publicity stunt to “protest the furries” because they weren’t allowed to bully the emo kids with cat ear headphones. Milo Yinolpolis tried to rally the terrorist org Proud Boys to raid a furry convention. Furry conventions are regular targets of bomb threats and had the largest chemical attack in US history in 2014 that sent 19 to hospital, which was largely ignored by law enforcement because “haha furries” despite being an act of terror (that has to date, no convictions).
Summary of litterbox moral panic: https://dogpatch.press/2022/01/31/urban-legend-litter-boxes/
Is “furry” a queer art? video essay: https://youtu.be/FAcb5RBocwM?si=iYGqnS15-ll-CWIu
well that is quite convincing, thanks!
I was thinking of mostly the same incidents. There’s a list but it’s not a really long one yet. That’s a good sign.
I think when they do come after furries more it would be with the sexual deviant angle. They’ll make it yet another thing for the pearl-clutchers to equate with child sexual abuse. Because they don’t really give a shit about actual child sexual abuse and it’s easier to pay your possibly pedo priest every week and the organization you know is committed to protecting child predators if you pretend sexual predators are everywhere.