@Deserter
The naivete was mine expecting you’d get the point sooner. Years sooner.
It’s a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic imageboard. This position of “admin” is not one that matters or holds any actual power; it’s a fansite for a cartoon. But given the theme of the cartoon, nevermind basic human decency, the expectation that racists should be coddled to and their feefees tended to is an absurd one.
If someone out there is an Aryanne fan because she represents racism/nazism and they’re offended by the idea that she’d be drawn with zebra friends, I really don’t care.
@Deserter
Oh, I’m not trying to bait you or get rid of you, I don’t need silly theatrical excuses to do that.
I just want you to realize I don’t give a single flacid oily shart about people that would get offended because their icon for racism and nazism is desecrated. Those people are not protected by the site’s rules, and their “suffering” at seeing such terrible images is nothing I care about.
If you want to go ahead and propose that racists deserve defense… well, I suggest you don’t do that here. I’m sure some other sites will accommodate such complaints with open arms.
Just to exchange a little subtlety. I wouldn’t have this picture on my screen at all if she didn’t already have the stripes on her body. Any more questions, Your Honor? :-)
But at this point I have to disappoint you. And tell you the truth about this picture. These are actually all German white ponies who simply painted themselves colorful for Fasching. Nothing I wouldn’t see every year in any German carnival. I think this one is the one of Cologne. Sometimes they’re Indians (cough) - sorry, Native Americans - (cough), sometimes Zebras. It’s quite obvious to me. ;-D
@The Frowning Pony
Look, I know what you’re trying do, you’re going to be a daft twat until I get frustrated enough to insult you so you can ban me or some other shit. This is not the behavior of an Administrator. You’re being incredibly immature and antagonistic just because you don’t like something.
Yes, Aryanne is a Nazi, and yes, people have used her for legitimate Nazi propaganda, I don’t like the Nazi ideology either for personal reasons and because it caused my great grandparents a bunch of suffering, but for as petty as I am you don’t see me going out of my way to antagonize the people who post a Rainbow Dash recolor on the internet.
I don’t like SmudgeProof for his work on Fall of Equestria, I dislike MarsMiner for all his sadistic rape porn, I hate SugarlessPaints for going back on all his fans just so he could get the sweet BLACKED shekels, and I hate all the people who followed that trend while permeating a horrible racist stereotype of black people and bootstrapping it to zebras, but did I do everything in my power to fuck them over just because I don’t like them? No.
You’re the administrator of the most popular MLP imageboard that exists on the internet, so should goddamn act like it. Abusing your position to get rid of people you don’t like and playing dumb when questioned about it is not proper behavior of someone of your stature.
@DarkObsidian
She looks perfectly happy with nothing sinister or abusive going on. Plenty of people “dress up” to fit among a crowd of friends or the local clique. Were this some other image with other things going on, sure, there’s a point to be made about the “dom” symbolism.
@Deserter Alas, none of those traits are against Rule #0, while racism explicitly is. Furthermore, it’s not what’s going on in the image, but the intention of the image that matters. I would have a hard time believing stalinists et al. create or consume Glimmer images genuinely, while you’re seemingly making the case that actual racists consider Aryanne to be an actual symbol of nazism.
@The Frowning Pony
Yeah, may as well delete every single picture of Season 5 Glimmer while we’re at it, considering how much fans like to portray her as a communist party leader.
I mean, we don’t wouldn’t want to host a character that’s related to a regime that advocated censorship, slavery, and class discrimination either, do we?
Would you like to start a discussion with me now about when stigmatization starts? From self-sigmatization to supposed stigmatization to quite obvious stigmatization? ;-)
I’m just saying I notice. But as I said, I’m not close to -dom Fetish. That’s why I lack the necessary. . . Insight. ;-D
It’s probably just a matter of taste. But as I said, I don’t like dominating others. Especially with such markings. I probably got too sensitized to this as a child. Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against some decent BDSM. But the rules are different, I guess. (shrugs)
Well, as I said. I just noticed. Stars and Stripes. :-D
@DarkObsidian
Didn’t know appreciating another’s culture could be deemed offensive. I guess no one but scots are allowed to wear kilts, else it’s cultural appropriation? Or a bindi?
@Deserter
I mean, if it’s true that Aryanne fans just like that she’s an ironic nazi, or a love nazi, clearly there’s no problem, right? It’s just more irony and fun!
But if what you’re saying is that actual racists would get offended by this sort of thing, well… I really don’t know what to say. That’s clearly opposed to everything Aryanne fans have been saying for years, and it’d be terrible to have to consider that this oc is serving as an avatar for racism. Might even be against Rule #0 to host at all…
So which is it? Is she an proxy for actual nazism and racism, or just a funny meme?
Why can’t Aryanne be depicted as a reformed Nazi who no longer believes in Nazi ideals?
There’s art on this site of Pinkie Pie murdering her friends, so spare me the “out of character” argument. Nobody owns Aryanne, and she can be depicted as someone who’s shed her nazi beliefs if the artist wants, after all.
@The Frowning Pony
Seriously though, just because you’re the administrator doesn’t mean you can ignore the site’s rules just to piss off people you don’t like.
You know what the “striped” thing entails, you know Aryanne is a Nazi and will never even go near what’s apparently the MLP equivalent of a black person, and you know it triggers those evil alt-righters seeing her getting banged by zebras, so hey, you’re also breaking rule zero as well, since you’re purposely trying to piss people off.
And I know where this conversation is going. Yes, I break the rules all the damn time, but that doesn’t mean I can’t tell off people for breaking them, specially when it’s the goddamn administrator, who should be an example for the rest of us. So get your head out of your ass and follow your own damn rules, Nixon.
I really don’t care, but as a German I have to ask: Have you ever noticed that the women (in this case Aryanne) having these stripes comes very close to the Judensterne (Eng.: Yellow badges)? A brandmark, so to speak? That’s why I don’t like these -dom fetishs at all. Any of them. One injustice does not make up for another and to do the same as others, I think is relativly nonsense. All I was taught from the very first day at school (1985) was not to stigmatize others. And that’s what we do here. Seems that way to me. I don’t like it. Seems wrong somehow. But I stay out of this. Just wanted to mention it. (Head-shaking)
Have fun moving on. There are no winners in this whole story anyway.
@Zendigo
I’m sorry, but “right-wing” doesn’t equal “nazi.” I kinda tire of hearing that.
Most republican & conservative American people were against the nazis, and their socialist/genocidal ways both back in the 1940s, and even today. (Though, some modern-day right-wing folk would’ve been considered more liberal back then given most are more open-minded to certain things/issues nowadays.)
The “Alt-right” edgelords & neo-nutzi-wannabes are something different from a normal republican, or conservative, much like how the SJW radicals online aren’t the same as a normal democrat, or liberal.
@The Frowning Pony
“Do not spam or put off-topic content – especially fetishes or roleplay – in comments/forum posts/reports.”
Raceplay is a fetish, after all.
C’mon, do you really want me to explain the rules to you? I mean, you made them, after all.
Nah, she and the other girls own the club. No pimps, no drugs, no nothing. Just good ol’ fashioned sex. High comfort in Roman antique ambience. For them it’s fun and cash, vent for me now and then. Not often, but I just don’t want a relationship right now and I don’t want annoying one-night stands anymore. Always too much drama. Right now I prefer a professional business transaction. ;-)
