(Opinion) To politically decent bronies: please stay

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Are you tired of seeing terrible mouhpiece edits and art of a Rainbow Dash recolor whose only appeal is her far-right edgelord aura?  
Then stay on the site.  
Over the past few days as this drama skates along, many left-leaning brony artists have left the site out of frustration and even filed Do Not Post orders against it. Many are disheartened by the influx of alt-right trolls posting art related to the drama and editing politically-charged art with heinous terminology from their side.  
…But this is exactly what they want.
 
Censoring them or enabling them won’t convince them of the wrongness of their beliefs – they’ll feel validated anyway. But chuds for sure do get high off power. Seeing their “enemies” leave the site in droves empowers them and reinforces their belief that they can eliminate their opposition through incited drama.
 
With all this in mind, i present a simple request: be stubborn. Stay on the site.
 
Stubbornness is what has historically led to positive societal changes. Without the lowly people being stubborn, unions wouldn’t exist, civil rights wouldn’t exist, our very idea of equality wouldn’t exist…
 
There are many fellow artists and bronies who, like you, believe the fandom shouldn’t be run by trolls and outright nazis. Befriend them, talk to them, and lastly, organize with them to overpower the rot. It can be done!
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Politically decent bronies? Are you for real? I assume “left-wing” means “decent” for you while “right” means “indecent”? Also, no one from the alt-right would want to stay on this site anymore. They’ve long since left for other sites.
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Of course, “politically decent” refers to “people who share my beliefs”
 
As Anakin Skywalker once said: “If you’re not with me, then you’re my enemy.”
 
That’s apparently what a lot of people seem to go by.
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Of course, “politically decent” refers to “people who share my beliefs”
As Anakin Skywalker once said: “If you’re not with me, then you’re my enemy.”
That’s apparently what a lot of people seem to go by.
 
That was a satire of the Bush administration, you know.
 
 
Anyway, nowhere did OP say left-wing. You can be anti-nazi and be left-wing, liberal, centrist, or even moderately conservative, jesus christ.
 
The fact that people immediately jump to assume being anti-nazi must mean only the left is… interesting.
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Of course, “politically decent” refers to “people who share my beliefs”
As Anakin Skywalker once said: “If you’re not with me, then you’re my enemy.”
That’s apparently what a lot of people seem to go by.
 
Except that is not what i’m advocating for. Read the post carefully and you’ll notice that i do not believe censorship is a reliably effective tool for combating trolls or anyone i’d personally refer to as a political opponent on this site. What i’m advocating for is for the bronies opposed to the alt-right trollposters to be more organized in showing their presence on the site.  
Most “apolitical” (to the extent that term applies) bronies are also alright to me.
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As the great Chris Hedges has said many times: “I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.”
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“Politically decent” is anyone who isn’t an actual nazi, racist, stalinist etc. It’s not hard to be politically decent. I may disagree with some ideologies, but they are still politically decent, while the previously mentioned are not.
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Over the past few days as this drama skates along, many left-leaning brony artists have left the site out of frustration
 
It’s not hard to parse what you mean by ‘decent’ when you make no mention of the people who are leaving the site due to issues regarding censorship, and only mention the ones that are leaving due to
trolls and outright nazis.
 
You can be anti-nazi and still create art that depicts nazis.  
We’ve got multiple threads on the topic already where multiple sides have given their viewpoints on this matter.
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Of course, “politically decent” refers to “people who share my beliefs”
As Anakin Skywalker once said: “If you’re not with me, then you’re my enemy.”
That’s apparently what a lot of people seem to go by.
That was a satire of the Bush administration, you know.
Anyway, nowhere did OP say left-wing. You can be anti-nazi and be left-wing, liberal, centrist, or even moderately conservative, jesus christ.
The fact that people immediately jump to assume being anti-nazi must mean only the left is… interesting.
 
Full conservatives can be anti nazi too.
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This was never about Nazis, it was about freedom. It was about people not wanting to be told what they were allowed to draw and post. Things like real-life CP and doxximg are absolutely not allowed here because they are illegal no matter how you look at it, but the site otherwise allowed people artistic freedom. Now that’s gone because some left-leaning Twitter keyboard crusaders decided they needed to bitch about a Nazi problem that didn’t exist.
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This was never about Nazis, it was about freedom. It was about people not wanting to be told what they were allowed to draw and post. Things like real-life CP and doxximg are absolutely not allowed here because they are illegal no matter how you look at it, but the site otherwise allowed people artistic freedom. Now that’s gone because some left-leaning Twitter keyboard crusaders decided they needed to bitch about a Nazi problem that didn’t exist.
 
This wouldn’t have blown up as much as it did if the site didn’t have a Nazi problem. And people who support Nazi iconography lost the right to have themselves be considered a quirky, harmless minority at about the same time the U.S. government started running full-blown concentration camps.
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It didn’t blow up at all until a month ago, when the so-called Nazi problem has been on this site for 8 years. All this started because of people jumping into the latest controversy head-first and the mod team knee-jerking to the cancel culture mob.
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This was never about Nazis, it was about freedom. It was about people not wanting to be told what they were allowed to draw and post. Things like real-life CP and doxximg are absolutely not allowed here because they are illegal no matter how you look at it, but the site otherwise allowed people artistic freedom. Now that’s gone because some left-leaning Twitter keyboard crusaders decided they needed to bitch about a Nazi problem that didn’t exist.
This wouldn’t have blown up as much as it did if the site didn’t have a Nazi problem. And people who support Nazi iconography lost the right to have themselves be considered a quirky, harmless minority at about the same time the U.S. government started running full-blown concentration camps.
 
If you think Aryanne qualifies as a “Nazi problem” then you’re nothing short of deluded. But then again you think holding camps for the literal hordes of immigrants who want to enter this country and have to be processed through the government system are comparable to WWII concentration camps.
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Consider the following:
 
If you wanted to stop coming across Aryanne art, Filters worked just fine.
 
If you wanted to prevent anyone else from coming across Aryanne art, and thus somehow becoming radicalized from it, let me tell you since this whole thing started i’ve never seen this much Aryanne porn outside the booru. In places you wouldn’t believe. So censorship didn’t really solve the problem, but intead moved it somewhere else. Congrats on sending many many users right to 4chan where the unironical nazis are.
 
“Nazi bronies” were literally never a problem at all until that god forsaken Atlantic article sent administration into a shitstorm. And STILL the twitter cultist aren’t happy with the ammount of censorship coming this way. They will never be happy because “racist” and “nazi” mean different things every god damn week.
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