If anything, the vote ratio on the troublemakers posts in this thread gives me hope that maybe this con will give the community the pushback against the bad elements we need. A lot of silent people are tired of the "I DONT LIKE THAT PERSON.. THEYRE A NAZI, AND IF YOU DONT IMMEDIATELY UNWATCH THEM WE CANT BE FRIENDS" ideology- nay, *religion*, which has spread throughout the fandom in the past decade.
We let them bully us to the point that saying "I don't want to talk about politics" gets you thrown into the same boat as (what the claim are) nazis. It's utterly ridiculous.
I'd rather a thousand peacewolfs than a single one of these people.
I, frankly, can't wait to get back to being a drunk dog in a fursuit hanging out with other social rejects and talking about our made-up fictional personas, and we can leave this dark and politically-tainted segment of our history in the past.
If anything, the vote ratio on the troublemakers posts in this thread gives me hope that maybe this con will give the community the pushback against the bad elements we need. A lot of silent people are tired of the "I DONT LIKE THAT PERSON.. THEYRE A NAZI, AND IF YOU DONT IMMEDIATELY UNWATCH THEM WE CANT BE FRIENDS" ideology- nay, *religion*, which has spread throughout the fandom in the past decade.
We let them bully us to the point that saying "I don't want to talk about politics" gets you thrown into the same boat as (what the claim are) nazis. It's utterly ridiculous.
I'd rather a thousand peacewolfs than a single one of these people.
I, frankly, can't wait to get back to being a drunk dog in a fursuit hanging out with other social rejects and talking about our made-up fictional personas, and we can leave this dark and politically-tainted segment of our history in the past.