The fandom overall is rather welcoming of anyone regardless of race, gender, orientation, interests, or other hobbies. This is what I would call "intolerantly tolerant".
But some furs are completely different and reject people without reasoning. So yes, the fandom can be too welcoming and let bad people in like those who are Neo-Nazis but there will be those who say "this is bad, this is wrong, get it out of here".
And a good lot of those who reject it will put out anything that is different from them. Another example would be the Kero situation that I will go into detail with at another time.
Here is a small summary: Kero the wolf is a popufur who was accused of harassing his dog until it died of kidney failure in January of 2017. He was also accused of using roadkill for his own 'personal needs' I'll call it.
No one really knows if he did it, but here's were the welcoming part of the fandom steps in. There are plenty of furs who admitted to being into the things Kero is [supposedly] into, or at least they were lying for attention, and actually started liking him more. And there are his loyal fans who love him dearly and don't care if he did. But then there are the three other groups left.
The 'he-definitely-did-it-and-needs-to-be-locked-up-right-now' group, the 'I-do-not-like-him-personally-so-he-must-go' group, and the 'who-cares-it-does-not-affect-me' group.
Loads of people sent Kero messages on Twitter and Telegram that they would stab him, that they would kill him, that he should kill himself, that he's a terrible person. Half of these furs don't even have enough evidence to prove him innocent or prove him guilty but they join the bandwagon of death threats and hatred.
These are furs at their most primitive state. Let's take Bolt Mutt for example. In a video, he addressed people who said he was misrepresenting the fandom by smoking a bong and talking about his experiences in a movie with a brony (yikes) and brings up the fact that "misrepresenting the fandom is supporting people who actively [harassed] their dog to death. Y'know?"
He then says that being trans-phobic is misrepresenting the fandom but actually, there are a great number of people who support Kero the Wolf and don't like trans people for good reasoning. These are people in the fandom. That is what these furs do.
It isn't misrepresenting, it's actually revealing the nitty-gritty parts of the fandom by scraping the bottom of the barrel. Not all furries are nice, and not all of them are mean, but they all have their opinions that should be respected like normal people in society.
I'm not saying that we're all really jerks in disguise, but we tend to go to the extremes. There are thousands of furs who go to charity events and raise money for good causes. Let me remind you all that there are 250,000+ confirmed furries on this globe and that just speaking for maybe 1000 isn't misrepresenting the fandom.
That would be like Donald Trump for example ( I don't like him ;-; )-- he technically isn't misrepresenting the USA, but he's speaking for a good lot of racists and angry people.
The furry fandom is no different. We're all just human, we all have our opinions, and where opinions differ, it can spark conflict.
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