Furries are a great litmus test because they are furries by choice, and are "weird" by societal standards, but are also completely harmless and there's literally nothing lost by just letting them live their lives.
So anyone who takes a strong stance against them is highly suspect, and almost certainly has deeper prejudices they just know aren't socially acceptable to say.
Hating on furries seems super anachronistic on the internet of today, it was something that was popular on Something Awful 20+ years ago, who cares about furries now?
There was also always a very short distance between picking on furries and picking on other ”weird” people including the LGBT community, which isn't surprising since SA at the time loved using the F-slur as a generic insult.
There are probably people well into their 40s who still think ”Cliff Yablonsky Hates You” is hysterical, that's possibly even sadder than all the people who are still South Park brained.
When Lowtax died, Somethingawful's culture changed so much that they didn't just celebrate his death (and expressed sympathy for the people he hurt, including in his own family) but a lot of the power users there are now furries themselves.
I won't say it's "good" but it's certainly not /pol/.
I know, although the culture had started to change long before Lowtax died. Even before he was outed as a domestic abuser, SA users thought he was like some kind of useless internet landlord who collected money through the site and his Patreon while doing nothing. Turns out he spent that money on living in a McMansion and leasing a Nissan GT-R.
Most of the chuds also either left the site or actually grew past early 2000s edgelord internet humor.
I'm not anti-furry... BUT...
Maybe don't be a German Shepard as your fursona
anti-furry is usually thinly veiled queerphobia and ableism against a prominently queer and neurodivergent community
A well adjusted non-furry learning about furries for the first time: "doesn't sound like it's for me." (and then they proceed to never think about it again)
i don't even get being broadly anti-furry today, coming from someone who is quite averse to the common conception of 'furry culture.' it's edgy but not like, edgy racist edgy. It's a weird safe sort of edge where the moralistic backing is 'they fuck animals!!!' until they find out they're thinking of something different and then they just internally reset and pretend they didn't hear that
it's 100% a losing battle too because the internet is owned by furries. like built funded and inhabited by furries. you're out of place if you have a serious problem with furries, which i really can't stress enough, is just sort of a benign hobby.
The kind of people that still have generic hatred of furries tend to also be South Park brained "caring about things too much is stupid and bad" ideology too.
They hate it when people care about human suffering, environmental collapse, or societal crises, but take time to be really mad that furries exist.
Imagine having "getting mad at others' special interests/hobbies" as your special interest/hobby lol.
Instead of thinking "not for me, but yeah, cool for them!" you just get
. Sounds like a lousy time lolWhen you base your identity on appearing as a "very serious and 'normal' adult" I imagine it is very easy to get angry and jealous of people being silly and having a good time. You're boring. Just hold the L.
I mean, there's times and places for the serious adult face, but having that ALL THE TIME? Bordering on
lolTo me it's a strong red flag of immaturity for someone to try to be Vincent Adultman all the time and to try to bully others into doing the same.
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Huh, I thought that the Drej Queen of the Drej Tank doing something really funny to bigots would be cool.
It is.
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