Well if we didn't put it in the headline you'd be asking "Why should I care?"
You said it yourself, you don't care about animal abuse, you only care about it when it's a furry doing it. And since you do admittedly care, shouldn't it be known to you?
You're assuming that people haven't become desensitized to headlines at this point. That every group has had a headline that has made their social clique look bad and thus look beyond it with the understanding that just because this one person in the social clique did this doesn't mean they all did it.
Anyone with half a brain would know that.
Feel free to tell any individual that indicates otherwise that they're a moron, because indeed they are. Don't worry about them either, they're too busy believing everything they see on television to come up with any world impacting opinion of their own. They will only wait from their media masters to make their decisions. They're not going to influence anyone else.
Sure this whole fandom image thing was an issue back before news an instantaneous phenomenon. Sure the tactics taken by Xydexx and Kage were very much necessary at the time they were made because no one in furry though about media relation AT ALL. However, the world has changed in 20 years. People all hate "the media" far more than they hate the fandom. Hell if a Klingon had to have a drink every-time Fox News decried the media, they'd be under the table (and they ARE "the media").
Everyone worth a damn looks at a news headline with skepticism. NO MATTER ITS SOURCE. Who read the entire story and sometimes find, as I have that the headline was completely wrong to what the content was presenting. There will always be the neanderthals who don't, but they're too busy with themselves to worry about things such as perceptional theory or word's influence or impacts on societal structures.
The important thing is not to let a story like this put you on the defensive. Spin it. Attack the person back. If it's a reporter you can ask: "Is it true that BBC reporter Jimmy Saville was engaged in pedophilia acts? Doesn't that say that all reporters are engaged in the activity?"
They'll drop that generalization pretty fast.
In fact if you wanted to do something "Viral" prehaps that is thing that should be spammed in the comment stories of all news stories that put a social group in the title like this one. Just the comment. "Jimmy Saville was a reporter who was a pedophile, therefore it is safe to say all news reporters are pedophiles."
If this happens enough, maybe reporters will get the point. Heck do it on these ones, and any of their derivative ones and see what happens. Do it for all fandoms and groups. If this is a problem in the media, make the entire media address it.
However, I do have the feeling if the word furry was taken off the headline and instead his ties were only left in the article, you or another would be arguing it shouldn't be here because the headline indicates no connection with the furry fandom.
You cannot win against a censor: if you give an inch, they'll want the whole mile.
Well if we didn't put it in the headline you'd be asking "Why should I care?"
You said it yourself, you don't care about animal abuse, you only care about it when it's a furry doing it. And since you do admittedly care, shouldn't it be known to you?
You're assuming that people haven't become desensitized to headlines at this point. That every group has had a headline that has made their social clique look bad and thus look beyond it with the understanding that just because this one person in the social clique did this doesn't mean they all did it.
Anyone with half a brain would know that.
Feel free to tell any individual that indicates otherwise that they're a moron, because indeed they are. Don't worry about them either, they're too busy believing everything they see on television to come up with any world impacting opinion of their own. They will only wait from their media masters to make their decisions. They're not going to influence anyone else.
Sure this whole fandom image thing was an issue back before news an instantaneous phenomenon. Sure the tactics taken by Xydexx and Kage were very much necessary at the time they were made because no one in furry though about media relation AT ALL. However, the world has changed in 20 years. People all hate "the media" far more than they hate the fandom. Hell if a Klingon had to have a drink every-time Fox News decried the media, they'd be under the table (and they ARE "the media").
Everyone worth a damn looks at a news headline with skepticism. NO MATTER ITS SOURCE. Who read the entire story and sometimes find, as I have that the headline was completely wrong to what the content was presenting. There will always be the neanderthals who don't, but they're too busy with themselves to worry about things such as perceptional theory or word's influence or impacts on societal structures.
The important thing is not to let a story like this put you on the defensive. Spin it. Attack the person back. If it's a reporter you can ask: "Is it true that BBC reporter Jimmy Saville was engaged in pedophilia acts? Doesn't that say that all reporters are engaged in the activity?"
They'll drop that generalization pretty fast.
In fact if you wanted to do something "Viral" prehaps that is thing that should be spammed in the comment stories of all news stories that put a social group in the title like this one. Just the comment. "Jimmy Saville was a reporter who was a pedophile, therefore it is safe to say all news reporters are pedophiles."
If this happens enough, maybe reporters will get the point. Heck do it on these ones, and any of their derivative ones and see what happens. Do it for all fandoms and groups. If this is a problem in the media, make the entire media address it.
However, I do have the feeling if the word furry was taken off the headline and instead his ties were only left in the article, you or another would be arguing it shouldn't be here because the headline indicates no connection with the furry fandom.
You cannot win against a censor: if you give an inch, they'll want the whole mile.