Applies to furries as well :)
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There’s a reason that they used “furfag” in the old days
Dude, that was a 4chan thing. It wasn't about "bigotry." Everything had fag added to the end of it. Newfag, oldfag, furfag, gamerfag... hell, I even saw gayfag thrown around a few times, though I'm pretty sure those were fully ironic since only a dolt wouldn't realize the idiocy of it.
And 4chan was filled with bigots. It was a major part of the alt-right pipeline that put America where it is today. Just because it was used ironically doesn't mean that it wasn't also used seriously. There's a whole essay on the furry hate that revolves more around the damage done by that one CSI episode (and I'm pretty sure another similar show a few years later) that characterized furries as sexual deviants than anything else, but the use of the 4chan furfag moniker was also a part of it, and that spread outside of 4chan.
4chan for its part, though, really proved the saying "say something ironically enough times and eventually you start saying it unironically." Although that's less related to the furry thing and more to the whole edgy teenagers posting racist jokes growing up to scream about Jewish space lasers creating climate change.
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I was gonna write a response to this but it was pretty much just a rephrase of my other response. tl;dr I don't hate furries as mentioned and idc if you're amongst the "normal about their hobby" crowd but in more than one instance I've encountered people very not normal about their hobby and I choose not to associate with them.
️in more than one instance I've encountered people very not normal about their hobby and I choose not to associate with them.
️To be fair, there are people like this, probably also on these forums, about almost every hobby. Gun nuts, programmers, “sweaty” card/board/video gamers, etc.
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it's also possible for people to be dumb online, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to try to put a stop to it.
Thanks for giving an example
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"Me when the person I'm talking to isn't white"
"My deviance is totally the same thing as ethnicity or gender"
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I think you might be surprised how round the diagram is of specialists, weebs, and furries is.
Unless the specialists are scientists, most of us present like normies
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Holy macaroni, the seething. Remember this thread next time Lemmy wants to pretend it's better than Reddit.
Was thinking the opposite, thought lemmy was above the unprompted furry bashing and this post made me doubt the maturity of a lot of people here.
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Thanks for giving an example
it's just a meme bro... i was memeing! you can't say it's stupid if i say i was memeing!
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Very perceptive, yes, a skill helped by my ability to take teasing as jokes rather than rectal insertions!
Stick: Removed from ass
Party: Time
Bro I don't even like anime, I've just grown out of the "mock someone for the thing they like" thing.
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it's just a meme bro... i was memeing! you can't say it's stupid if i say i was memeing!
Turns out, i was also memeing! How's abput that? Boom, memeinception
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Holy macaroni, the seething. Remember this thread next time Lemmy wants to pretend it's better than Reddit.
Some people can't take gentle trolling at their expense, is sad
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Turns out, i was also memeing! How's abput that? Boom, memeinception
yay we can say anything we want and have no repercussions
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HE'LL YEAH BROTHER!!!!!
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Incredibly based, you got them to crawl out lmao. How did such a bad bait work so well?
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except for programming cause the anime pfp people are usually cracked at that
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That's some good bait, right there.
Bait for what? I don't get it
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Some have called me a master at baiting! It's all about that quality stuff that you know people can't resist!
Thank you for showing us how to master bait
visual learner btw -
Was thinking the opposite, thought lemmy was above the unprompted furry bashing and this post made me doubt the maturity of a lot of people here.
You're on the shitposting community. Unprompted bashing is the norm, you're not supposed to have a meltdown about it.
