I'm gonna be talking about the way the right-wing side of the MLP fandom uses cancel culture as a weapon against anyone who attempts to become a better person.
To start, these caps of @TheTazen were released solely because she decided to leave @EtheriumApex's circle of nazis.
For a while, Taze hung around with Etherium, Queen Buggo and other right-wing members of the community in Etherium's private discord server. When she decided to leave and criticize those in it, they decided she had betrayed them.
Right-wing communities like the one Etherium runs generally run on the Mutally Assured Destruction principle: Nobody dares leave or criticize the group because everyone in it has said reprehensible shit.
Etherium himself has repeatedly threatened to tattle on those who leave.
This keeps people who enter those communities trapped in a cage of their own making. People who join use the relaxed rules to sling racial slurs and transphobia, but then if they ever want to leave they're blackmailed IMMEDIATELY.
Etherium did the same thing to Suskii.
The people currently trying to "cancel" Taze aren't doing it because they dislike bigotry and want to make the pony community a more welcome place.
Its pure, spiteful revenge. They've made this obvious by the way they talk about how based (i.e Right-wing) Taze used to be.
Now as for the caps themselves? Yeah, they're pretty bad. Standard-fare right-wing reactionary edgy posting with an extra heaping of racism.
But unlike someone like Etherium who triples down and shows no signs of wanting to change, Taze is making an effort. An ACTUAL effort.
Nobody is beyond redemption. And I refuse to play into this bullshit weaponization of criticism threads to dunk on someone who wants to get away from bad people in the community.
Its my belief that if you show yourself to be willing to grow then I should give you that chance.
This extends to anybody who is looking for a way out of toxic communities. I know what its like to have your past constantly dug up and paraded around simply because you want to ditch shitty people. If you want to change I will give you that chance.
This goes for Etherium, too.
Again, the stuff in these caps is extremely bad, and you don't have to forgive her. She will HAVE to work hard to prove to people she's actually trying to change.
But I refuse to play the game these nazi chucklefucks want me to play. There is ALWAYS a way out.
If I managed to get away from hateful right-wing circles then other people deserve the chance to grow as well. It would be hypocritical of me to shit on someone for saying bad things in the past if they're trying to be less of turd-blossom now.
I forgive you, Kalie.
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keep making new ambiguous and arbitrary restritctions on art please.
lets start measuring body porportions of electric mutant rats to make sure they're not "adolescent".
I trust the mod team will be able to judge this fairly.
I am really not sure how furaffinity's previous policy about art depicting minors doesn't already cover this. why call out pokemon amd digimon specifically?
Are we really gonna do the "Sonic fanart is underage porn unless you draw them specifically like this" bullshit again?
this was a real thing by the way. absolutely pointless granularity, glad we're gonna do it again!
why the fuck does every single fnaf song sound like walmart brand backstreet boys. its mind-boggling. If I wanted to hear some twink sing about furries I'd put on Pent Up Pup
I don't know how they do it but I can INSTANTLY tell if a song is a fnaf fansong. they ALL sound the same.
This is the most clean-cut case of internalized-homophobia I've ever seen in my life
he posted his entire life story and most of it is just....blaming others for his own personal choices and then being extremely confused that being gay meant more than being an ultra-fem bottom being dominated by a super-chad mega top.
Its staggergingly clear that he is using his unresolved trauma from being in an abusive relationship to lash out at gay people, trans people, and also ethnic minorities because why not.
Quoting suicide stats and using the "economic factors" dogwhistle to refer to PoC.
If you attended Trotcon this weekend you may have seen people carrying green plushies around. These are called "Anonfillies" and are part of the same project.
Its important to stress that they should NOT be judged as hate symbols, as they're totally separate concepts.
The idea behind Aryanne is simple: use it as a in-group identifier for other right-wing members of the pony community who support nazism, while having just enough plausible deniability to make anyone who asks questions seem like they're overreacting.
The common refrain from people who defend Aryanne are that its just a joke or satire.
But some /mlp/ users have grown weary of this excuse and seem to be growing tired of the nazis currently infesting the board.
The right's messaging about LGBT folks is specifically worded to imply that we are coming for other people's kids when the exact opposite is true.
Right-wingers are the ones actually coming for other people's kids, oftentimes travelling cross-country to terrorize queer events.
Its important to understand that the wording here is deliberate. Even if its an event that only consenting parents attended, its still an attack against YOUR kids, somehow.
Thus you get fascists in libraries yelling about their daughters (who didn't actually attend the event)
If you point this out to fascists, the replies range from equating drag shows to beating and starving to making up laws that don't actually exist.
The logic doesn't really matter here. Queer people existing AT ALL is an affront to them, and all their arguments stem from that.
So elon musk reposted a Hard Drive article without credit and when he got called out for it (and ratio'd) he deleted the original post and whined about wokeness.
To top it all off he then declared the meme wasn't that funny anyway so THERE. Actual spoiled child behavior lmao.
Do people honestly think this guy is some bastion of free speech? I guess if you're definition of the term means "I can be a shithead to anyone I don't like with no consequences" then he's your guy.
I don't understand how you can have billions of dollars and still care about shitposting on twitter. If I had that much money I'd open a world-class music studio solely for pony and furry music groups and you would see me here maybe once a month.