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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

From Huffpost [huffingtonpost.com], your source for political furry news.

“WHO WOULD WIN?” it reads in stark black capital letters above two photos. One image depicts a “leftist dad,” a man in a yellow parka holding a protest sign that declares his commitment to “pry” guns from their owners’ lifeless hands. The second depicts a grown man wearing a head-to-toe fox fursuit, cradling a sizable automatic weapon.

The gun-happy furry, the meme implies, would come out victorious.

Sour Grapes, according to Aesop.

“Trump’s election has for sure surged the influx of alt-right furries in the fandom,” Ayala the Deer, an asexual artist, writer and fursuiter who does not identify as Fur Right, told HuffPost. “There have always been alt-right furs, they’re just more vocal now due to the election. Any fandom that’s as open as us are always going to have bad eggs. We accept everyone and anyone, which is a good and very bad thing.”

Hmmm.

However, the vocal subgroup of Alt-Furries has been hard at work asserting their space within the movement of late, and it’s this very spirit of inclusivity they wish to expunge.

“The furry ‘community’ is a fandom that has been overrun by liberal ‘tolerance’ and ‘acceptance’ and as a result it’s become sanctuary to hardcore paedophiles and people with serious mental problems,” the unnamed author of Nazi furry erotica “The Furred Reich” told The New Statesman, which has been doggedly covering the Alt-Furry scene for years.

The core furry community, then, finds itself in quite the bind: Can a group founded upon the idea of consummate tolerance embrace a clique that’s so staunchly intolerant?

Quite the conundrum, eh?

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