Bomb threat at Detriot / Ypsilanti Furry Con

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Those were dark times on the internet. While SA has gotten a lot less horrible since Lowtax died and a lot of the main community members that came later are (older, admittedly) LGBTQIA+ and/or furries, the stigma may never fully leave that place considering what it used to be.

    Nazi furries are a thing but furry conventions seem to kick them out quicker and more vigilantly than most other convention communities ever even pretend to try.

    • invo_rt [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Oh there definitely are. They've got themselves a chud con in the Midwest too and it has all the usual patriot, freedom, 'merica imagery you'd expect. But yeah, a notoriously awful furry just tried to attend a con this month and as soon as staff was alerted, they had his badge pulled in like an hour. Con staff does their best, but at the end of the day, they are a handful of volunteers against several thousand attendees with very little way of checking every person that comes in. They get a lot of shit online for not just knowing about certain people, but expecting them to have an encyclopedic knowledge of dumbasses isn't fair imo.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I heard that Milo Yiannopoulos, long after his minutes of fame had passed, commissioned a fursona and tried to proselytize for nazi shit but wasn't let in from the start. :rat-salute-2:

        • invo_rt [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Yeah that was at MFF in Chicago a few years back before he became the 37 year old intern for MTG lol