A fandom divided will not stand

                                                                                                       Fox Crimson   08/25/17

We live in very trying times.

There has been a tremendous schism occurring within the furry community, and for that matter, the greater breadth of postmodern Western society as a whole.

Although in the furry community much of the current debacle can be seen conducting itself in various chat servers and social media platforms, there are consequences to  expressing our socio-political views online as they can be prone to boiling over when we encounter those who hold differing views while attending “furmeets” and conventions where many furries congregate. Messaging clients such as Discord and Telegram have become barometers that indicate the value of our social capital, determined largely by how others perceive our most controversial opinions and who we coordinate and organize our social circles with. What we now find ourselves engaged in is quite literally a war of information, spurred onward by our innate human sense of tribalism and the need for validation from our peers. In this day and age, there are no longer any communities of any real significance that exist in a bubble of isolation or in a sphere of their own influence as they have all become politically embroiled in the growing upheaval that has come to define the pressing challenges of our time. The Berkley riots, Charlottesville, Phoenix, the ongoing protests at Trump tower and elsewhere have all demonstrated that the ideological divide in this country is as divergent as the Grand Canyon is wide.  At the height of 2017 we have yet again reached another turning point in our great American journey.

I speak first and foremost as an American but also as a member of the ‘furry community’. I’m an Admin and chief networking officer for the Furry Raiders and an original proponent of the tent movement known as the AltFurry.  I’ve spent close to 20 years in this fandom, having made in it, the most genuine friends of all races, creeds and orientations. Let there be no doubt about it: These are my people.

Altfurry is heavily criticized from many different angles.  Some are vaguely dismissive toward us a ‘shitposters’ and ‘trolls’; others simply cast us in a purely negative light as a ‘hate group’. Though there is definitely an element of self-mocking absurdity to it all, upon closer inspection, there is a far more substantive factor involved should one come to truly understand what the motivating force behind Altfurry is, and the underlying, core ideology that it’s locus of gravity is predicated upon. Chiefly being: Exposing the rhetoric, hatred and hypocrisy within the furry community that is so commonly directed toward people who hold centrist, conservative and libertarian values. After nearly a year on since its emergence, ‘Altfurry’ has proven not only does it have staying power,  but that it has also come to represent a growing movement which has been slowly and steadily gaining traction within the furry community. Some opponents might try and label any sincere rallying cry we make for self-determination on our behalf to be cringey …but we simply don’t care. It’ll last as long as it needs to.  As one might expect, there is variable overlap with other groups (Notably Furry raiders) that some, but not all, might identify with. As far as the extreme liberal leftist crowd in the furry community is concerned, (Let’s call them “Leftistfurs” for the sake of brevity) this distinction is a mere triviality that does not matter one iota. When it comes to throwing us in the proverbial Gulag, we are all equally detestable and we are all guilty by association. It’s safe to say that there is a large portion of the furry community that simply does not care (or is otherwise oblivious to) the dangerous extremist elements infesting this community; but it’s also fairly evident and pretty accurate to say that the good majority of people who identify as furry are decidedly liberal and, at the very least, sympathize with the tenants of modern progressivism, socialism and yes, even in some cases, communism.

Having exhausted all their options in framing the narrative in their favor and after encountering heavy resistance in the culture war (E.G: Gamergaters, Alt-Furry, Alt-Brony, the rise of Trump supporters), they have as a last resort, been compelled to label anyone and everyone supporting moderately right-wing views as Nazi’s, racists, or any combination thereof to suit their agenda. Even centrists of both liberal and conservative persuasions are not immune to their harassment and are indiscriminately attacked by these people. One does not even have to be an Altfurry or a Furry Raider to be targeted for wrongthink. In the furry community, this is accomplished through online intimidation of dissenters as well as indoctrination of newer members because if you do not tow the line for the establishment left, you are effectively ostracized from involvement in certain social groups and you are then marginalized with an unwarranted stigma forever hanging over your head. Blacklists and censorship are the order of the day, methods which are practiced by high profile individuals in the fandom who are keen to use these subversive authoritarian tactics without discretion. They often have large followings and use this to their advantage to shun those who do not support left-wing party views into compliance. In the most extreme cases, this even includes those who do not blindly accept communist ideology.

 That conditions have come to this, that an oppressive purity test is being routinely performed en-masse by the liberal left within the fandom to enforce exclusion of those beholden to right-wing counterpoints and conservative thought, indicates that a very large swath of the furry community has become little more than a resounding echo chamber that is entirely out of touch with traditional American values and is in actuality, steadily losing ground outside its confines, which, I should make very clear, are self-imposed. 

Yes, I get it. We are a counter culture. The Furry Fandom has been growing steadily since the first furry convention formed in 1989, but as a consequence it has also become a much more diverse community since its inception that now includes people with many different political views all coming together to share the same general space. Furthermore, labeling those you disagree with as Nazi’s is not merely slander; it is egregiously anti-Semitic toward members of the furry raiders and alt-furry who are of Jewish background, myself included. This can rightfully be extended to those who have Slavic, Polish, French and British background as well. They were all victims of the Nazi regime, oh, I mean actual Nazis. I find it especially concerning when dyed in the wool Nazi’s and racists begin coming out of the woodwork and are then painted out to be a natural consequence of the conservative right gaining political power and a logical extension of Trump’s America; but let’s keep pretending that a couple hundred knob-heads wielding Tiki-torches represents the resurgence of fascism in modern America. Let’s be honest with ourselves for once. They have always been there. They lurk in the shadows because they are weak and cowardly and the recent controversy has only emboldened them.

There are far many more Communists in this fandom than Nazis.

The primary dilemma of our modern era has always been class warfare due to monetary inequality. Communists mistakenly believe that this discrepancy can by resolved by a workers revolution just like Russia had in 1917! The fact is, Communism is a deeply flawed ideology which failed miserably and spectacularly many times over the course of the 20^th century, well into the present day. Communism is a far more insidious threat owing largely to its hollow promises for social equality and subtle platitudes about elevating the working man and erasing the troublesome problem of bourgeois class distinctions! When communism is put into practice in this regard, it is much like a cold, blank steel slate in which all individuality and uniqueness in the world gets reduced to a darker shade of gray to force “equality” upon all social strata. They employ a sinister but effective method of reactionary conditioning known as the Hegelian dialectic, a tactic of mass social manipulation in which a thesis and antithesis are juxtaposed against one another to help further a political agenda. Allow me to explain: A conflict is manufactured in advance only to be intentionally ‘resolved’ by perpetuating a cycle of even more conflict. The philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel had an enormous influence on Karl Marx and in effect, the communist manifesto itself. The dialectic begins with formulating an Agenda: We already know beforehand that the long term nature of the agenda that these leftists wish to instill in America involves consolidating their power under a socialist regime. A good example of this tactic being put into use today would be the current conflict occurring between the so called “Alt left” and “Alt right”. The opposition would have you believe that the ‘Alt-left’ , composed of AntiFa, BLM, and other aggregate leftist organizations are the thesis; patriotic Americans fighting nobly for freedom and the emancipation of your civil liberties by instigating protests (read: terror events that turn into riots) against the antithesis, so called “Nazis”, coercively re-associating a toxic label with the intent to encompass the entirety of the right wing American political constituency to help achieve a synthesis: a paradigm shift of political power which is ultimately designed to undermine the current administration by shaking the foundations of our society to the core. In order to help usher in this synthesis, that being a socialist state (SOCJUS), adherents of cultural Marxism have taken to openly attacking white, hetero-normativity with fanatical zeal and reckless abandon. Trump supporters are the core demographic in reference here; the hard-working, taxpaying backbone of Middle America.

Espousing support for cultural Marxism in the pedagogical manner of the Frankfurt school will usually obtain you a free pass under the current leftist media complex. There are many reasons for this, one being that communism is not as explicit in its doctrine in exploiting division along the lines of racial bias in a society for the impending establishment of an ethno-state. However, they have no qualms about using this matter of contention to frame their political adversaries in a negative light. Racism is a long standing issue whose roots run deep in America, but instead, modern socialists will seek to exploit this old wound. When Communism is put into practice it is generally more concerned toward the end goal of instigating class-warfare by undermining private ownership of assets and personal property, eventually seizing a state run monopoly over the means of production. Free enterprise and private ownership are among the core American principles that have always made this nation great. However, the most powerful communist regimes were far, far more oppressive during their establishment and height of power than any other type of bureaucratic regime in human history, bar none; responsible for killing dozens upon dozens of Millions more people than any fascist regime by method by of mass purges. This was conducted by many communist regimes by implementing forced starvation, death by exile, hangings, and firing squads. Over 100 million people were killed in both the USSR and the People’s Republic of China for resisting the authority of the totalitarian state. The Tibetan people, of whom I hold a very deep and personal spiritual solidarity with during my time living there, are also victims of decades of communist oppression. This is something I’ve witnessed first-hand and it resonates with me to this very day.

That there are still Americans in 2017 who do not find the Hammer and Sickle to be as oppressive a symbol as the Nazi Swastika displays to me the utter stupidity, the most base and ignorant level of derangement imaginable in our society that I balk at the notion that they breathe the same air as I do. These are the exact types of individuals in Western society that Joseph Stalin would have called “Useful idiots.” That there are still people who cling to the notion that Communism isn’t as lethal to the human condition as Nazism is something I find exceptionally abhorrent and a notable failure in our public educational system for not properly conveying the innumerable atrocities committed by communists over the course of modern history. The irony in all this mess? I support *both* of these groups freedom to take to the streets, protest, and wave the symbols of their filthy trash ideologies above their heads while personally maintaining support for neither one. Let them finish each other off and be done with it.  I find it more comforting that they protest openly in broad daylight so that we know just who these people are; but remember, there is only one faction in this debacle that goes out of their way to hide their identities by wearing black ninja masks while the other side very often chooses not to.

The dishonest media.

Look, there are still many people who have yet to realize the penultimate goal of the establishment mainstream media is to keep the general public distracted and divided against itself. They accomplish this by taking advantage of our delicate human emotions. They feed like vultures off of our limited attention spans and propensity to disagree with one another when it comes to how we cope with our most controversial moral and political issues that are subjective to our own interpretation and moral compass…or lack thereof. By focusing on the statistically miniscule lunatic fringe of various “alt-right” groups like White supremacists, National vanguard, ANP, KKK, etc; the mainstream media shifts the narrative and lends credence to the overwhelming violence perpetuated by criminal thugs like BLM and Antifa, effectively handing them the false pretense of a moral high ground.

Why do they do this? It’s very simple, really: By dissolving the identity of the new conservative ‘right’ and aligning everyone right of center with National Socialism (A leftist ideology) the Fake News Media manufactures a false dichotomy that panders explicitly to its base and exonerates the authoritarian left because they are predominately owned and operated by these very same authoritarian leftists. These are liberal Plutocrats and Democratic Party coastal elites who seek to divide and conquer western society by proxy using the alt-left like pawns as their militant wing and using CNN, MSNBC and many other news media outlets as their propaganda arm. They’ll condone the violent actions of these groups while simultaneously keeping them at arm’s length should they get too far out of control so that they can claim plausible deniability when their affinity for them is put under too much scrutiny. The media is more than happy to constantly call out the Alt-right as ‘white supremacists’…but you’ll almost never, ever hear them reference Alt-left groups like AntiFa and others in league with them, as communists and communists sympathizers…instead they are called ‘peace activists’. 

When your political opposition is being pushed to the extremes and labeled as Nazis you can easily garner kneejerk reactions from an otherwise docile and largely uneducated viewing audience into accepting your distorted vision of reality because the opponents presented to you on the screen are literally Nazis and that fact should be enough to never be questioned. Charlottesville in particular was one such fiasco: A false-flag operation that was a setup from the very start to be intentionally put under a microscope for the media so that they could hone in on some of the most degenerate members of our society (on many sides) who showed up to wreak havoc. The Confederate memorial being taken down was the bait and the Alt-left and Alt-right protestors were the test subjects. As a result of this social experiment 19 people were injured and several people died as collateral. This event has been used as justification by various media sources, CEO’s, website owners and social media companies to further undermine the rights and liberties of American citizenry and ramp up censorship of right-leaning groups in chat rooms and servers, thereby putting a muzzle on opinions which have been bold enough challenge the establishment media. Does that mean that ‘Alt-rock’ is now a genre of music listened to by Neo-Nazi’s?  Give me a break.

The hysteria has reached a fever pitch.

Let’s remove the many veils of irony for a moment. If we are to objectively examine this issue we must also be candid in how we address its root causes. Personally, I would not ever be in favor of bringing politics into the furry fandom by way of overtly broadcasting my affiliation in a convention space or a furmeet. This means waving political banners around, wearing party paraphernalia, spreading political pamphlets to con-goers, holding political panels at cons or going out of my way to begin shaming those people, publically or personally, because they voted for a candidate that I did not support. Even though it is well within my right to do so, I simply do not care to introduce such things in a convention space. The furry social scene was always better when politics were not at the forefront.  I think most of us will agree that the essence of being a furry means limitless expression and being true to yourself; however for some of these backward thinking people, being a furry and simply expressing a political opinion openly on a social media platform otherwise constitutes“bringing politics into the fandom”, most especially if it is not of the acceptable liberal persuasion.

It is for these reasons that I can say with renewed confidence that the new right is intrinsically more progressive and in league with upholding our individual freedoms rooted in a love for peace, liberty and humanism than many liberal leftists have ever been capable of. It is so unfortunate that the term ‘progressive’ has come to be associated with modern liberalism since I’ve found that the meaning behind this word is a genuine value which is much more widely cherished by the American right and the vast majority of Trump supporters, since they are the ones most likely to embrace it. The new-right upholds our #2A rights to bear arms, stability of a homogenous society without forced replacement from dangerous refugees, stable families, unparalleled economic freedom, balancing the trade deficit with global superpowers like China so that we grow our economy and claim our manifest destiny to remain world leaders rather than world followers. It is in this way that we can better our lives and flourish as a nation. This is what putting America first means and this is best accomplished by the precepts underlined by free enterprise and capitalism. There has also been a push for renewed acceptance of the LGBTQ community by a new generation of Republicans and right-leaning groups disavowing the religious zealotry of the far right which once defined the initiative of the old party and its warmongering Neocon leaders of days past. The ‘Alt-Right’ was shaping up to be a movement for young conservatives, galvanized from 4chan’s /pol/ board, Reddit, and many other communities, coming together to Make America Great Again while celebrating their heritage and sharing Pepe Memes before it was hijacked by white nationalists in the wake of the 2016 election. The designator ‘Alt-right’ has become tarnished ever since.

The very presence of Altfurry is a firm repudiation to the spread of subversive activist groups like AntiFa, radical 3rd wave intersectional feminists and Black lives matter which have in recent years gained a firm foothold in this fandom. These groups have since come under the umbrella term ‘Alt-Left’, thanks in large part to president Trump’s more recent press comments in calling them out by name and condemning them after the Charlottesville riot. These are radical groups that, at their core, eschew tolerance and free expression while promoting anarchy in their twisted agenda of spreading anti-American rhetoric. 

The collectivist group-think on public display by Leftistfurs is not unlike a hive-mind. Behaving like moronic, selfish children which have clustered together into a loosely knit gathering of cliques with a sort of herd mentality, they are unable to think critically or form thoughts independent of the host consensus, else they be deemed improper and politically incorrect; partially out of fear of exclusion perhaps, but also out of a severe lack of foresight and inability to challenge the status quo from some of their less intelligent stratum lest they should come under scrutiny from their peers. They are cry-bullies and insecure cowards with a perpetual victim complex who often flaunt their LGBTQ and/or racial minority status as proverbial shield in a futile attempt to deflect from their lack of moral integrity and myriad shortcomings.  Perhaps the greatest consequence of their hypocrisy is that these people have been quite faithfully emulating the divisive tactics used by the ‘burned furs’ nearly 20 years ago. By their audacious claims that right leaning furries and others like the Altfurry and furryraiders are not true furries, they only serve to prove us all right and shelter themselves in an allegorical Plato’s cave of their own design. They see form where there are only shadows, and literal Nazi’s were there are only ghosts of the past, ignoring the visceral substance of the greater outside world and its assortment of conflicting opinions, counterpoints and alternative ideas that would expose their hypocrisy for what it is, should it blind them instead.

Altfurry, acts not only as a social calling card, but mobilizes a force to hold them accountable to their own violent rhetoric as well. There is a noticeable pattern that begins to emerge when dealing with individuals beholden to such views. Whether on their Furaffinity pages or twitter accounts, they are so lacking in individuality and desperate for some semblance of validation that they often use pronouns as their primary means of identity, hash tagged with any combination of the aforementioned alt-left groups and are just utterly brimming with their eagerness to  ‘Punch Nazi’s (Ergo, anyone who opposes them). Their icons and art often appear harmless and innocuous, with pastel palettes and rounded contours that are almost childlike in their design imitating this “slice of life” artistic style while taking great pride in being furry trash. 

Whereas ISIS and the DPRK epitomize the external boogeymen that keep Baby Boomers up at night until the FoxNews story about the latest missile launch finishes airing at 11PM, the more overt threat to our Western society takes shape in the form of financially driven Russian Oligarchs and Chinese lords of business manipulating our currency to skew global trade in their favor while building crude oil pipelines in through the wastes of unstable middle Eastern nations, consolidating their resources. We have internal fractures which have taken shape, among them, AntiFa, BLM, anarcho-communists, and other subversive groups (PETA , Black Bloc etc.) have become the visible branches of this destabilization. I’m of the strongest conviction that these Alt-left groups represent the greatest innermost threat to our society and the continuity of western civilization as a whole. They are of the most delinquent social strata which promote open borders and the illusory fantasy of a classless hegemony which would inevitably result in an oppressive society governed by left-wing technocrats and despots.  We can thank George Soros in large part for funding these groups and bussing them into major cities to upset protests and spark riots so that the general public remains at perpetual war with itself. The furry fandom is just one of many communities in which this radical leftist disease has festered. Gamergaters, youtube commentators and even Google employees have all been victims of this type of silencing. The technocrats in charge of these media platforms have the ability control what you see and hear, so it stands to reason that they therefore gain tremendous influence on what you say and think. Make no mistake, the Hegelian dialectic tactic that cultural Marxists employ is very much in effect here. When your platform for spreading a message gets pulled out from under you by people in power who disagree with your ideas and opinions, the exchange of ideas being shared atrophies and a society of oppression inevitably emerges, degrading in an ever downward spiral, a race to the bottom of who can be the biggest victim?

 

Despite his wildly successful comedy show, (which drew in huge crowds might I remind you) Anthrocon’s decision to remove “2 Gryphon” has ruined his career and severely limited his opportunities within the Furry Fandom. This is an entire matter in itself involving petty boardroom politics conspiring against him that I won’t get into the details of regarding how this man’s name was dragged through the mud, but I freely encourage anyone to hear his story. This presents us with a prime example of just how adversely someone’s life can be affected when social justice warriors smell blood in the water; they have gone off the rails and fostered an environment of exclusion in this community. This is a talented man who had the most popular performance show at the largest furry convention in the world for many years running. There are many leftist zealots who have labeled his comedy routine as hatespeech when in reality, it was simply wrongthink.

Let me take a brief moment to address the appearance of Magnus, otherwise known colloquially as the ‘Confederate flag fursuiter’ at Anthrocon: Having never met him personally I couldn’t even say with any degree of certainty on whether or not I would get along with him, but that’s not at all the point: His God Given right to freedom of speech and expression must be upheld without exception. It is not only intolerant not to support Magnus constitutional right to free expression, it is strictly UnAmerican.

…but that’s entirely relevant because the people in question are very much ‘UnAmerican’ either without realizing it, or, in many cases, taking pride in it by their own admission. Indeed, this is not solely because they protest and practice dissent, but  because they routinely harass, label and punish others who exercise their 1^st amendment rights in a public space that they mistakenly believe to be zone free of iconography that they disagree with or find unpalatable. Furry fandom began as a distinctly American phenomenon before spreading throughout the developed western world, but the American way of life of promoting that precise, inalienable concept of freedom to express ourselves the way we want is paramount to this fandom even getting off the ground to begin with. Whether or not these Leftistfurs will ever succeed in seeing the hypocrisy of their own words and actions is very much in doubt, yet still reflects poorly on them all the same.

Regardless of one’s personal feelings on the matter, the adults in the room understand that the Confederate battle flag is an important part of U.S history. The Confederate battle flag was never the official battle flag of the Confederacy during the civil war, instead being flown by Veterans of the war long after it had ended. Instead, it has come to take on new significance and represent an amalgamation of modern southern culture that many people who aren’t living in the south still remain ignorant about to this very day. The current frenzy of tearing down monuments to the past reeks of another cultural revolution parallel to 1960’s China: Yes our past is very often painful, but you are not going to usher in a great era of peace and prosperity by destroying and defacing the symbols that hearken back to that era; it will only further the division, incite violence, and create a world like George Orwell envisioned in 1984 where the script of history has been re-written and sugarcoated to appeal to modern liberal sensibilities.

It remains to be seen if the current generation coming of age under the Trump administration will further succumb to the pitfalls and platitudes of ‘social justice’ as the pendulum will inevitably swing back hard in favor of liberty and the traditional American way. They must also realize that there will always be authoritarian individuals in organizations like AntiFa and BLM opening their arms to the forgotten and rejected youth, trying to control them by offering them a place to belong that their families may not ever have given them and the support network that we all deeply crave as humans.  In the furry fandom, these groups have taken great strides in their attempts to hold sway over impressionable young minds.

At the expense of insulting their perceived social validation which, outside of their echo chambers, I would like to remind everyone, is essentially worthless, I have come to a pretty strong conclusion. If there is to be one takeaway from this article, let it be this: The ideological divide is too vast and the convictions and values too dissimilar, that achieving an understanding founded on mutual respect and common ground with Leftistfurs simply on the premise of being a ‘furry’ is impossible; we may as well be living on two different worlds while seeing reality through completely different filters. There can be no reconciliation with one another. Leftistfurs will continue to insist, out of misplaced hubris to save face in front of their peers, that anyone not sharing in their group-think mentality must be labeled as Nazis and must not only be silenced, but attacked for it as well. Altfurry, FurryRaiders, and many, many other Furries unaffiliated with either one of these groups often strive to take this community in a direction that promotes true tolerance for all people while upholding free speech and expression regardless of political affiliation without having to play into identity politics. Conversely, we have a voracious opposition in this fandom that forcibly strives to take it in an entirely different direction, one that actively seeks to censor, blacklist, and publically endorse witch hunts against those they consider to be transgressors. There is even a vocal and militant minority within the greater berth of that opposition who have been caught red-handed in their secret telegram chatroom, musing over making death threats and mail-bombs because they believe there is a certain Fox in this fandom which they believe to be the literal incarnation of Hitler. I don’t take any pleasure in the fact that many of these people were probably bullied growing up and that by banding together to bully others who don’t think as they do, somehow gives them the excuse to feel validated. Social justice doctrine is an oppressive method of leftist conditioning that puts artificial limits on what is and isn’t permissible, which is why it is so distressing when liberal bias in the fandom begins to dictate convention policy.

There exists a sense of curiosity and scrutiny by ‘outsiders’ to the furry community, but only the loudest and most raucous voices within tend to get heard by these outsiders, which is one reason why RollingStone magazine ran an article about “Nazis in the furry fandom” rather than the substantially greater presence of communists in the fandom. Leftistfurs are a fanatical and much maligned group of people that cannot be dealt with sincerely and since we disagree so fundamentally, any interaction with them often takes place under the pretense of multiple layers of irony (hence, the spontaneous appearance of “Deo-twitter” as a counter effect to mock her radical communist style censorship and malicious attitude toward Altfurry and Furry Raiders) but it is also through a combination of their condescension, arrogance and hubris that makes them oblivious to their own hypocrisy. One need only look as far as “Dogpatch Press” to see a blogger masquerading as a furry news source and come to the conclusion that this community lacks a source of objective journalism; instead, we are treated to a delightfully adolescent imitation of journalism with extreme liberal bias and less credibility than a gossip tabloid like the National Enquirer.  As Donald Trump would put it: “You are Fake news!”

The fact is, in the real world these people perpetuating the radical ideologies I’m talking about are still very much a fringe minority and that is a major reason why they are scared on a subconscious level. The Alt-Left in particular, has been in the midst of a meltdown. The Democratic Party has been in total disarray. They are lashing out like a wounded animal that has been cornered. The historic election of Donald Trump mass triggered them and put them in a panic-mode, further exacerbated by the wave of Trump supporters and swelling ranks of right-leaning conservatives, showing us that, outside their safe havens of predominately liberal cities, they are a dwindling demographic and an unwanted one at that. The presence of Altfurry and its expansion only adds fuel to that fire. In the furry fandom however, (which is something of a societal microcosm) they tend to have more social leverage on group policy by forming a distinct hierarchy of inclusive groups within the larger social hegemony which is why the appearance and growing preponderance of Altfurry, furry raiders, and others becoming so bold and outspoken while simultaneously generating renewed controversy and gaining new adherents has disturbed them to such a high degree.  What they fear most, above all else, are these liberty loving groups making their voices heard and becoming a more substantial presence in the fandom, thereby altering its course, inextricably, into a flourishing artistic community unhindered by the vicious subterfuge commonly utilized by Leftistfurs. Long have they been touting their militant brand of social justice and Cultural Marxism, which in practice, only deepens the divide in this community as it promotes exclusion, shame, ridicule and guilt.

I’ve never personally witnessed such hostility as that which has been directed toward Foxler Nightfire, Magnus (Confederate flag fursuiter) and my fellow members of Altfurry. I’ve got a message for anyone paying attention who may be a member of AntiFa or among the peanut gallery of Leftistfurs perpetuating the “punch Nazis” trend going around in the fandom: This vilification and demagoguery by you and your ilk will not stand. It stinks of elitism within the fandom and we will never back down. This is not *your* fandom to gate-keep and you do not get to call the shots. This is a fandom for everyone, and that means people with views and opinions different to yours; and if your precious snowflake feelings get hurt along the way, then that’s tough shit.

In closing

I am a firm believer that liberty must be proactively fought for by any means necessary, otherwise it is to be put in direct danger of being eroded and swept away. Many centrists and liberals who would otherwise not affiliate with any group will always get caught up in the frenzy for holding beliefs contrary to the extremist wing, should they gain a modicum of power. One important guideline that must be established is that the furry fandom is not a haven exclusive for people who hold political perspectives left of center. I have many liberal furry friends and may not agree with them on every point, however for those I know personally, we can still respectfully disagree on certain issues and still remain close friends. There is a deep flaw in human nature, and it is that we often see issues strictly in a black and white context, with each opposing “Side” being equally at fault. Alt-left, Alt-right…both are highly polar opposites that can be taken to extremes. There are even extremes in Alt-centrism since any position you assume can be taken to its logical extremes and it is in that moment that you lose the fundamental message and the ability to begin affecting change on a large scale. You denigrate yourself and others by subscribing to fanaticism. Anytime a movement grows in number it will inevitably attract such extremists joining the ranks which the opposition will always take advantage of to use as propaganda in their favor, eagerly highlighting these extremist outliers to purposely re-brand the entire group. 

This is why we must remain steadfast in our convictions, promoting liberty without censorship while not just advocating American exceptionalism, but taking refuge in it as a bastion to spread Anglo-Saxxon enlightenment principles worldwide.  So many of the youth today do not realize how many countless patriots shed their blood for the liberty which they often take for granted. Communists, in particular, hate America and always have since Marx and Engels concocted the communist manifesto. It may at first seem like they are an easy group to mock due to their limited numbers, but these modern anarcho-communists (Such as black bloc) are not yet a viable enough force to affect change on a mass scale primarily because they are restricted to liberal sanctuary cities largely on the west coast and elsewhere…but that makes them no less dangerous. Socialist mayors of these sanctuary cities and liberal judges defying federal mandate by encouraging asylum for illegal immigration, giving also, free range for these anarcho-communists by letting them run wild and hindering law enforcement from doing their job in curbing them, are among the most imminent internal threats to the stability of this country. Communists are a shadow of what they used to be, especially in the western world, and insofar as much as them having any political prominence they are only influential in extremist circles; however anyone who is savvy to modern history understands that communists have a long track record of committing atrocities once their numbers reach a critical mass and especially when they are presented with the opportunity to seize power within a country. Young furries only have to look as far as Cuba and Venezuela to understand just how deadly socialism can be for a country when going unchecked and just how drastically such a regime would restrict the Gender identities and LGBTQ rights that they so passionately cherish. Unless you want to get rounded up by a Castro-esque Cuban militia and shot for being a homosexual, subversive capitalist…take pride in your country by becoming a patriot. 

Though I personally lean moderate-right  and share certain “progressive”  and libertarian sentiments with many Millennials today, my philosophy has always been one of balance and equanimity to as much a degree as possible. There will always be a level of social tension present in any society but I firmly believe that spreading Western principles helps create the foundation for an ideal civilization, not a utopia per-se, but an open society to as much a degree as possible that advocates upward mobility and free enterprise which are just several of the ingredients that lend itself well to real prosperity. 

 The furry fandom is not some singular, monolithic institution by which any one individual can be ‘ousted’ from unless they are members of certain group whose de-facto leaders have come to a consensus about their involvement.  However, when the leaders in question have control over the wider public domain of a convention space that attracts thousands of people, the very real possibility of exclusion gauged on one’s political leaning or involvement with the Altfurry for example, would oppress many people, thereby driving down convention attendance and eventually become little more than a stagnant circle-jerk. Such a fandom would be incredibly restrictive, stifling creativity to such an extent that it would wither on the vine, inevitably fragmenting into multiple social scenes with such disparate views that they may as well be altogether divided. Altfurry has successfully exposed the vitriol of leftist furs that have been screen capped showing a desire to kill police, construct bombs, bring weapons to conventions, and have been caught discussing methods of premeditated murder toward Foxler Nightfire. Any sane community would normally decry such vile harassment that it be condemned in the strongest terms, but lo and behold, there is an entire league of brainwashed furries that turn a blind eye to it and some even encourage that this be celebrated with a twisted sense of justification.

It is important to understand that Altfurry is not, nor ever has been, a separate entity from the ‘furry fandom’ proper, but a wide and varied group of individualists who share a more tolerant and expressive vision of what should define the furry community. Our immediate goal should be long term growth by boosting our numbers, attracting more right-leaning furs into the fandom while providing an open and inviting refugee for younger furries who are just joining the fandom so that they may express themselves without feeling alienated or incurring unwarranted shame and bullying. There are still many that fail to understand that it is not ‘alt-right’ extremism either, but a counterweight to rampant Leftism. You don’t have to support Trump or any other public figure to be Altfurry or even a Furry Raider; you don’t even have to have right wing political views exclusively. You can be black, gay, straight, transgender, Native-American, aboriginal, Christian or Muslim, a left winger or a right winger: It doesn’t matter. All that is necessary, in my mind, is to advocate support for a fandom free of censorship and without hatred based on your political stance…and perhaps most importantly, an ability to love spicy memes.

Change starts with maintaining objective and unbiased convention leadership that promotes free speech and expression. Altfurry must take an active role in expanding its literary and art content, as well as its superior meme generation to encompass a wider swath of the fandom. This proliferation will help bring the community into balance by ensuring that leftist radicals are kept far at the margins of the community and reminded that their tactics of bullying others over their political choices and how they choose to exercise their freedom of speech and expression is something that will never be tolerated.

I leave you with a quote from Aldous Huxley that I find to be more relevant today than ever before:

“The Surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’-this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” 

Thanks for reading.

-Fox Crimson

On the closure of RMFC and the rise of the Alt-Furry

Recent events which have unfolded within the furry fandom have generated renewed media interest in our community smacking of sensationalist headlines from news outlets such as The Daily Beast claiming “Neo-Nazi’s are tearing the furry world apart” and The dailymail.co.uk with its cringe inducing headline:  “The furred Reich: Furry annual convention cancelled amid community’s bitter divisions over rise of alleged neo-Nazi ‘Mr Foxler’ and the ‘Altfur’ movement”. Even Rolling Stone picked up on the fur-flying drama with its own hot take: “Does the furry community have a Nazi problem?” Of course, the news media never picks up on stories about how much money furries have donated to charitable causes like veterans associations and animal welfare organizations. Let’s completely ignore the sheer amount of revenue our tourism has brought to major cities that have played host to our conventions when they are in full swing, not to mention the unbridled happiness we bring unto others with our jovial antics, but I digress. Such stories would never earn enough views for these sites because they’re examples of feel-good drivel that most people only pretend to want; they aren’t the juicy, misinformed click-bait articles that the mainstream press and its rabid audience of normies so desperately craves. The aftermath of this latest debacle has resulted in the closure of a significant furry convention which was held yearly in Denver CO and has shaken the furry community to its core. The RMFC (Rocky Mountain Fur-Con) fiasco is our latest example of an intra-community schism that had developed largely on social media platforms (Primarily twitter) and telegram chat rooms before metastasizing like a cancer into the real world and having very real consequences once the authorities got involved.

By now, most of you reading this article know the gist of the story: Back in January of this year, an attention seeking communist sympathizer named @DeoTasDevil made violent threats (Which were investigated by the authorities and deemed credible) on twitter about punching “Nazis” that was then countered by one “@Oliviameles” who responded with an ambiguous comment along the lines of watching someone shoot Deo in self-defense if they were to be punched. Subsequently, Deo was rightfully banned from attending RMFC by one of its staff members for having made this threat to punch ‘Nazi’s’ along with reasoning that claimed that the threat qualified as an “Incite to riot”. However, the ban notice was delivered in a very unprofessional matter. Seeking no legal consultation and drafting a ‘cease and desist’ letter signed in red-ink with a red thumb-print suggesting sovereign citizenship, a man who staffed RMFC, one “Kendal Ray Emery”, who goes by the furry name ‘Kahuki’ decided it was a good idea to mail this mockery of a ‘C&D’ letter to Deo’s place of residence using vaguely worded, intimidating quasi law-speak. It didn’t help matters that he (Kahuki) also has a criminal record as an underage sex offender and regardless of whether or not that fact has anything to do with the situation at hand, RMFC’s con chair and board of directors should have thought twice about keeping this man on staff to save face for the sake of maintaining its public image…or whatever it had left of one. These are furries we are talking about, after all. There were also allegations that RMFC continued to operate as a non-profit organization even after its permit to do so had long since expired; the allegation continues that the RMFC board of directors took advantage of this tax-exempt status and continued to operate as a non-profit for the purposes of tax evasion. RMFC will be remembered as a poorly managed convention that succumbed to a litany of bad press and mounting legal issues which were directly tied in to its rising security costs in excess of $20,000 as a result of these twitter threats which the authorities deemed enough of a valid concern as to provide a security detail that RMFC was unable to afford. Soon afterward on April 10^th 2017, RMFC announced its closure in a press release on its main website.

The fact of the matter is that the entire debacle is a dumpster-fire on both sides and nearly everyone involved is at fault. There is next to nothing in terms of integrity worth salvaging when it comes to RMFC and how its board members handled this incident, let alone how they ran the con into the ground in recent years.  It’s worth noting that this was a convention that nearly collapsed in on itself back in 2009 due to its inability to meet room-block requirements before it was bailed out only through the grace of its supporters and staff in the form of large donations that kept it going for as many years as it did.

Enter “Foxler” and the “Furry Raiders”

So along comes a man dressed in a Fursuit that many choose to perceive as sporting a “Nazi Uniform”. His name is ‘Foxler’ and his foxy fursona is complete with a black paw-print logo stitched onto an armband with a red and white background that loosely resembles a “Nazi Armband” (Which makes for great sensationalist media fodder) causing many Antifa (Anti-fascists) within the furry community to lose their collective shit, taking it upon themselves to harass and attack him based solely on his provocative getup. In 2016, Foxler, who is also the de-facto leader of the ‘Furry Raiders’, overbooked 20 room reservations at the Crowne  Plaza Denver airport which hosted the final RMFC. He was then accused by some members of the furry community of buying up these room blocks in order to scalp them and leverage control over attendees. There was an outcry within the community that desperately tried to label this action as a ‘putsch’. As ‘2 The Ranting Griffin’ pointed out last year, the Furry raiders appropriately handled the situation by calling the hotel and cancelling the room reservations due to the overbooking mistake. This caused a great furor in the community, with many claiming that the ‘Furry Raiders’ were a ‘Neo Nazi’ group.

There are many people within the furry community who accuse Foxler, (whose last name is “Miller”) of having a fursona that is supportive of, and synonymous with, Adolf Hitler. Yet Foxler has openly claimed that he is not a Nazi and in no way supports Hitler, rather, insisting that his name is a combination of ‘Fox’ and his last name ‘Miller.’ It is worth noting that Foxler was rejected in the past by actual neo-Nazi’s for being both gay and a furry. The furry raiders also sell rainbow armbands which RMFC had banned the previous year. Yes, that’s right. The furry raiders wear rainbow variations of Foxler’s iconic armband that look vaguely similar to a Nazi armband. What could possibly be more terrifying? Social justice snowflakes apparently feel so gravely threatened by this iconography that they’ve lost their minds and went on a limb to target him and anyone else they see as remotely “toxic”, especially those daring enough to artistically express themselves or are beholden to right-wing views.  This is not the first time a schism of this magnitude has occurred within the furry community. The current state of the furry fandom does draw very similar parallels to the ‘Burned Furs’ debacle of 1998-2001 that tore the fandom apart and resulted in a very embarrassing media frenzy. For anyone unfamiliar with this event, consult the following article.

RMFC foundered because it was a weak and poorly managed convention, but the question we must also ask ourselves is if it is acceptable for radicalized attention seeking individuals to continue to commit libel against others and then threaten to assault them based solely on how they dress or choose to represent themselves? Or perhaps, because their political views are right of center and they are apparently, you know, “ACTUAL NAZI’S”?

The obvious answer is of course not.

Is it healthy for our community to vent this way until the hysteria inevitably burns itself out?  

Only time will tell.

Allegations of ‘Neo Nazism’ proliferating in the furry fandom are little more than a distraction from the core issues we are facing and a convenient smoke screen for authoritarian leftists to hide behind. The problem was never ‘Nazi’s in the fandom’, but SJW’s labeling others as “Nazi’s” with impunity. Make no mistake: The heart of the matter is ultimately one of deeply rooted social and political differences manifesting themselves. The symptomatic issues we are now experiencing in the furry community is indicative of a far larger cultural shift occurring worldwide, notably, a reaction to the rise of populism, conservatism and a nationalist surge that continues to gain momentum. In truth, the furry fandom is embattled by the same social and political challenges that affect any large community that has managed to attain a worldwide reach. It just so happens that this occurs in the furry fandom on a much smaller scale. Even as the witch-hunt of ‘Neo Nazi’s in the community turns out to be a red herring, the allegations of tax evasion concerning RMFC may in time prove far more credible.

Sources cited for the main story first reported on by the Denver channel 7.

Who are the alt-furry, you might ask?

As one of the early adopters of the ‘Alt-furry’ movement shortly after it formed in November 2016, I can attest to its rise to prominence within the furry community firsthand. A certain ‘Pooka’ going by the name“@TheQuQu” built up a support base using the #Altfurry hashtag on twitter, soon becoming the main press contact associated with the movement after releasing  a series of YouTube videos, eventually culminating an interview that legitimate news websites picked up on, which is linked in the following article. Altfurry’s “@Azu_Rayn” also had a major role in proliferating the message of altfurry on social media and producing these videos which many in the furry community at first saw as a joke, but alarmed the leftist opposition when it began to gain traction. One thing still remains very clear and that is just how many people, even within the furry community at large, fail to grasp the sheer irony involved with altfurry as it began primarily as a reactionary movement whose purpose was to mock the extreme far left elements that had cropped up in the fandom in recent years. SJW’s, BLM sympathizers, punks, anarcho-communists and the like began whining louder than ever before following Trump’s victory on November 9^th 2016. In the wake of Trump’s inauguration and the Berkley riots earlier this year, these fanatical leftists began demanding concessions that spilled over into the furry community. The more virulent among them began using passive-aggressive tactics to insult and shun anyone who didn’t adhere to their worldview. Some artists and small businesses have openly stated that they will not produce work for Trump supporters and while they are perfectly within their legal right to do just that, their actions still represent an unfortunate byproduct of just how extensively poisonous a small but vocal band of SJW’s have soured the well for everyone involved. They are oblivious to the atmosphere of hypocrisy they have created, preaching the message of a tolerant and open furry community while ostracizing those they disagree with in a bid to control furry-run events and public spaces (conventions) all part of the greater culture war being waged in modern America.

No, not all ‘alt-furry’s support president Trump, though many do. However, from what I’ve seen, most have a tendency toward varying degrees of conservatism in their political stances and uphold the core tenets of many right-leaning views. Some still maintain support for Rand Paul or Ted Cruz, while many others simply do not care one iota when it comes to the American political landscape, partaking in the altfurry shenanigans for reasons all their own. It is said that the opposition to altfurry necessitates the need for altfurry, and this proclamation thus became our iconic rallying cry:

 “This is why we need Altfurry.”

Ideally, politics should really have little to no place in the furry fandom, but, by that same token, being a furry means unabashedly being yourself and staying true to who you are. Whether or not others agree with those political sentiments does nothing to hinder how we choose to voice them. Self-actualization encompasses our right to form our own political opinion without reprisal. Speaking personally, my ethics, convictions and values are an integral part of my identity and since ‘Furry’ is a vehicle for self-expression; they both come part and parcel of what defines me as much as it does for anyone else. In right-wing furry circles there is a strong undercurrent that promotes the embracing of American values, patriotism, capitalism, traditional American culture as well as European history and culture in the Anglo-sphere. In large part, there is a repudiation of political Islamism which is seen as a foreign threat that is incompatible with our way of life. There is a prevailing sense of nationalism, but also a rejection of the ‘old guard’ Republican values with its bible-thumping evangelical religious zealotry, bigotry and prudishness. Hence, the ‘alt’ right began in large part by the youth (Gen X and Millennials) as an alternative to the stale conservatism of the past before being co-opted. “Altfurry” has thus become something of a furry analogue to GamerGate and “Frog-Twitter”.  Many in the rank of Altfurry are strongly pro LGBT, while others are generally tolerant of, or at most, indifferent to gay rights issues along with other typical ‘left’ leaning issues such as environmentalism and socialized healthcare. There are plenty of people within ‘altfurry’ as well as ‘Furry raiders’ that openly embrace many of these so-called  ‘liberal’ issues and support civil liberties and open tolerance as there is always room for overlap. Radicals on both sides rarely choose to see individuals as mosaics beholding to a complex web of moderate views, but rather, wish to project their own image of the opposition to the extremes delineating in stark contrasts.  They do not wish to see the nuanced views we support that give us agency, partly out of laziness, but also out of political expediency: It’s easier to justify punching someone when they are a “Nazi”

Nazi’s, in my fandom? It’s more likely than you think!

Yes, there is a very small minority of furries that dress up in ‘fascist’ attire, the majority of whom do so to fulfill a sexual fetish power trip. Others usually commission furry art of their characters adorned in Nazi outfits to lambast their critics because they want the truth vested in irony and there is no better way to do it than by creating an elaborate charade. How is this any different than Mel Brooks prancing around in Springtime for Hitler or Sarah Silverman dressing up as Nazi caricature? The objective is to embrace the absurdity, because it can’t be taken seriously. It’s not supposed to be.

I voted for, and continue to support “Orange Hitler” therefore I am a ‘fascist’ no matter which stance I take or argument I posit. The ensuing backlash which often occurs with extreme liberal leftists in the furry community has become something of a Monty Python skit gone horribly wrong: a parody that can only be met with a heavy dose of irony followed by no shortage of apathy when the contact cord is finally cut. Nine times out of ten, a person with a diametrically opposing sociopolitical outlook will just block any and all interaction out of ignorance which I suspect is largely due to their inability to formulate a viable counterpoint. Personally, I see this as a concession and a victory in-itself over their purported ideologies that they claim to hold so dear, showing that the much lauded ‘tolerant’ leftist is quite a rare animal indeed. There is simply no point in arguing the matter when there are people clinging so unwittingly to an obtuse mentality that they cannot tolerate a differing perspective, but there is much to be said about staying true to one’s own convictions and a great deal of merit to be gained by taking a stand in the values one cherishes and wishes to see proliferate in their country against all opposition.

I am a strong civic nationalist and I believe in the idealism that America is a nation for every race, creed, and orientation; that being said, I shouldn’t have to virtue signal in order to prove that my egalitarian intentions are inclusive and accepting of anyone who wishes to partake in the furry fandom. Because you can’t just be a ‘good person’ and have voted for Trump.  No, they have no other recourse but to vilify you and then block. There may be no reconciliation in differences of opinion with these extremists, but they are quickly finding out that the furry fandom is not theirs to control.
 
While “Deo” enjoys 15 minutes of furry-fame before inevitably fading into obscurity, the more extreme leftists within the fandom will rally around the “REEEEEEEEEEs” of this injured varmint crying foul and feigning oppression while the alt-furs have a good laugh about it and continue to mine the salt for all its worth. Alt-furry have been disparaged and attacked for simply existing, because our very presence is a threat to those who desire further censorship when we exercise our freedom of expression.  The old idiom of “The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists” has proven incredibly accurate.  Let me also point out that Fascism is a left wing ideology (National socialists). Deo has thus far proven to be a useful idiot for the far-left furry cadre that will no doubt flaunt their collective self-victimization as a calling card for more sympathy while throwing a conniption fit to the press with so much ire and gnashing of teeth. It’s important that we reserve some degree of pity for many ‘Antifa-fur’s as many of them have come from broken homes with no nuclear family or traditional father figure to steer them right, else they wouldn’t be so morally bankrupt and misguided as to engage in cultural Marxism and resort to Anarcho-communism as an outlet to form their worldview. They will continue to find themselves further and further marginalized in a fandom that has grown far larger and more diverse than they could ever hope to control and those who take it upon themselves to act upon their violent urges will wind up permanently banned from future convention spaces. Their cries of Nazi’s! have thus far attracted the attention of the press, but this melodrama will backfire after wearing thin and falling flat. The moment they have exhausted their tantrum and resort to violence, their being tolerated by the greater berth of the furry community will begin to evaporate. In regards to self-proclaimed ‘Antifa furs’ and SJW’s participating in the furry fandom, there is no central ‘leadership’ as it is a very nebulous clique rooted in degenerate communism and far left socialism. Theirs is little more than another ill-fated power-grab in an attempt to ‘gate keep’ the fandom by their efforts to oust ‘undesirables’ and  to prevent others from displaying their colorful armbands. It’s an attack on the freedom of self-expression which is enshrined in the constitution. I stand with Foxler and his right to express himself as he sees fit. I stand with the confederate flag Fursuiter who was banned for two years at MFF 2015 for emblazoning a symbol on the back of his fursuit which is a crucial and integral part of American history that can be found on the Mississippi state flag.

A legitimate concern that affects everyone involved is how these SJW extremists and Antifa fur’s may continue to maneuver themselves into positions of power such as convention staff in order to abuse their authority and begin chartering policies that prohibit freedom of expression and enact bias against right wing members of the furry fandom.  This has already happened in small part, particularly at MFF (Midwest Furfest). The latest development that has taken shape after RMFC cratered is that Deo is promoting “Mile High Furcon”  as an alternative to RMFC where they are looking for staff members who are not “bigoted or share hate speech.” which is code word for sheltering a safe-space that enforces a rigid authoritarian leftist agenda. Altfurry is not so much focused on creating a ‘safe space’ for right-leaning furs, but rather helping form a support channel through which they are encouraged to participate in the community and let their voices be heard. The altfurry now heralds a call for acceptance without demands to oust leftist opposition from the community as we are confident that they will surely do that to themselves.

Conclusions

The furry fandom has grown into a world-wide social circle where we are free to find out who we truly are through boundless creativity and inspiration in one another; a venue by which we express ourselves and have fun in doing so. Perhaps what I find most distressing about this situation is how much attention the RMFC fiasco has garnered when in comparison to the most severe issues that rocked the furry fandom. Where was the outrage when five prominent men in the furry community were convicted of raping an underage boy?
 

…and it was swept under the rug and conveniently ignored in large part. There is a tremendous disconnect occurring in this community when it comes to focusing on which issues should be a priority that could keep its most vulnerable members safe. The latent corruption within this fandom has not been receiving nearly as much attention as when the imaginary boogeymen of Furry Raiders and Alt-Furrys were thrown into the spotlight as a distraction, lost amidst cries of “Literal NAZI’s taking over the fandom!” which rang out in false alarm. In regards to the molestation case in PA, there were many statements on message boards expressing sentiments of “Oh it shouldn’t matter that they were furry!” and “This could happen in any community!” while true, these sentiments said nothing about what steps were being taken to prevent this behavior and any attempt at examination to root out this kind of depravity by banning individuals with a similar record of child abuse from attending conventions was not considered. This lapse in judgment constitutes a grave danger in our community. Each individual snowflake will never see fit to take responsibility for the avalanche when it comes crashing down.

While 501(c) non-profit organizations are well within their legal right to permit or deny whomever they choose to attend a convention space while in operation, any attempt by board members of existing conventions that begin enforcing Antifa and SJW tactics by banning or intimidating attendees based on their social and political views will certainly result in a fractured fandom and find their conventions run into the ground in a similar fashion to RMFC, Rainfurrest and Oklacon. Any convention taking this approach will be akin to the community putting a choke hold on its own growth that will result in a long term deterioration which the fandom hasn’t truly experienced yet. If this does occur, defamation lawsuits will be filed and it will only be a matter of time until someone is crossed to the point where they have the convention investigated for tax evasion or have them sued for libel. This is a community that has been growing on a steady incline since the late 70’s yet may be in for a shock if it does indeed fracture into separate fandoms or stop growing altogether which wouldn’t be a good thing for anyone. This is a grassroots fandom that was built on self-discovery and unity, but that unity is predicated upon acceptance and requires open minds that are inclusive and tolerant of people who have differing points of view. This includes Trump supporters, right-wing conservatives, nationalists and Libertarians.

Furries come from all walks of life and have many different perspectives, something which many grown adults have yet to learn how to accomplish. After a numbing series of defeats, the far left is still in the midst of a massive tantrum. They have become a desperate group of people striving to enlarge the influence of their echo chambers under the guise of ‘safe spaces’ within the ranks of our community because they have stuck their heads so far up their asses that they demand everyone group-think identically as they do.  God Forbid if anyone else maintains a differing point of view from theirs, thinks for themselves, or does not adhere to their fanatical leftist value system else they are truly a dyed in the wool Nazi and worthy of being punched. Despite all the current hysteria going around I’ve no doubt that once this drama tapers off the greater furry community will do some soul searching and come to find that the #altfurry are fellow members of this fandom, no better or worse than they are, but eager to temper liberal extremism regardless of whether or not everyone may agree with our methods. We continue to accomplish a great deal of progress by upholding freedom of speech and expression in this fandom. The vitriol coming from many Antifa (which are a domestic terror group) and their ilk threatening to begin ‘Punching Nazi’s’ will be confronted directly, reported to authorities and exposed as a small group of cornered animals posturing out of weakness as more and more people will come to find out that their bark is worse than their bite.

Pun intended.

-Fox Crimson

On the scourge of Radical feminism and the myth of male privilege: Part one

On the scourge of Radical feminism and the myth of male privilege: Part one

Intro

Due to the length of this article, it will be split into two parts. It is my sincere goal that many young men and women take the time to read this article in its entirety, seek out additional resources, counterpoints, as well as having the gumption to challenge any preconceived notions that they might already cling to.

Shortly before his death, noted mythologist and historian Joseph Campbell gave a lecture on Kundalini yoga and its emergence and subsequent development in the Eastern world. It is from this lecture that I begin this article by quoting a passage from his teachings:

“Now when I was a small boy, there was a question as to whether women should be educated. It was argued that they didn’t realize even then what the implications where. When the woman is educated in a male curriculum which is what these universities give us then she forgets what it means to be a woman. I hope this isn’t published (laughing)… But this is a real problem today.”

He went on to say:

“The sacrifice that the woman makes in achieving this career is much greater than the sacrifice that the man makes in achieving his career.”

We must first take into context that the nature of the sacrifice that Mr. Campbell was attributing to women is not in any way more or less noble a sacrifice than those that men make, but rather that it has a much greater impact on her life and alludes to the fact that at the time, many women were just beginning to choose sacrificing traditional gender roles such as motherhood and home-making in exchange for monetary independence and success in the world of business. The upset which occurs by balancing the twin burdens of career and motherhood can be attested to by first understanding that the amount of time and effort necessary that a woman must dedicate to being truly successful in her career creates a major conflict of interest which thoroughly contributes to under-nurturing and a lack of adequate attention to her offspring .This becomes the source for many reoccurring problems in young boys such as violent outbursts, lack of control and discipline, and even outright insubordination without her even acknowledging the extent of just how far the problem goes; so the State is all too eager to step in to take over parental roles and begin their indoctrination early. We see this phenomenon occur today in many single mother households where children, particularly young boys, are lacking a proper father figure. Campbell was not arguing against granting rudimentary grade-school education to girls, but rather, that priming women for careers in Universities to strive for positions which would otherwise have been male-dominated roles would prove to be a hugely problematic issue for society in the near future. This lecture took place in the mid 1980’s, a time when the growth of women in the workplace was yet still a burgeoning occurrence and a novel phenomenon. I consider Mr. Campbell to be a personal hero, and one of the underappreciated geniuses of the 20^th century. Even the concept of a lifetime ‘career’ is a relatively recent concept to human society, only emerging in the 19^th century after the industrial revolution, as the term ‘career’ itself was once referred to exclusively in the context of race-horses.

In the Paleolithic past, rituals prepared young boys to become hunters and warriors for their tribe. As a boy comes of age, it was customary that he be sent away to be ‘activated’ by the society through these ritualistic inductions. This is an inherent component of human nature and this core psychology still remains embedded within us. When participating in the male sphere, women are simply not activated in the same way when becoming a member of the society. Young women did not need to be ‘activated’; they simply sat in a hut and realized that they were a vessel for life and child rearing and that Mother Nature had over-taken both their physiology and psychology during their first menstrual cycles. Despite what so-called progressive leftist “thinkers” may attempt to tell you, humanity is not a gender-neutral species with both genders exhibiting ‘equal’ traits and capabilities in every possible way: there exist myriad differences between the sexes that are directly hardwired into our DNA and have been for hundreds of thousands of years.

Since the sexual revolution of the late 1960’s, our society has witnessed the total implosion of the nuclear family which has concluded in the widespread dismantling of the traditional patriarchal family house-hold structure which has now been undermined to its very core. This has led to the dissolution of the father-figure as the locus of power in the household; ergo, his inevitable replacement with state authority at the greatest expense to him should his wife deem it necessary in a divorce settlement. Though this model still persists today in many evangelical families and others beholden to traditional values typically rooted in religious pastimes, we cannot ignore how far it has crumbled since this model was at one time the de-facto household structure. While some radicals may delight in the notion of tearing down any male authority figures, they remain oblivious that upsetting the balance of the traditional family unit has been extremely chaotic to society and from this plight stemmed a great many ills, and many believe it is inexorably leading to a breakdown in western society itself. However, it has also been a blessing in disguise. Many men are now in fact applauding this turn of events inasmuch as the breakdown has allowed for men in this new era to sever the reigns of marriage under state jurisdiction because they are seen as nothing more than workhorses; and by doing so, sever also the blind servitude to their “Male-Mother need” requiring female oversight in their lives by declaring their autonomy and rising from the rubble of the ‘nuclear family’ model to go their own way.

Masculinity is under siege.

In the absence of strong male role models, many young boys today are reared by single mothers and grow up resentful and confused about the meaning of manhood as we are now tearing down the goalposts and redefining what being a man truly means. The Protector/resource provider role as the defining characteristic for men is an archaic one even though it is still foisted upon men by the society and defined solely through man’s relationship to woman by default and lauded as his only true purpose in life according to a ‘traditional’ value system endorsing Judeo-Christian principles.  Anything straying from this dynamic in a tradcon (Traditional conservative) value system is considered a threat to the pervading status quo; IE, homosexuality. In regards to young boys in the current school system, they are admonished for expressing competitive aggressiveness and rowdy playfulness. Instead, they are given a slew of pills to sedate them into a passive stupor from expressing otherwise normal competitive male behaviors.

We are now conditioning entire generations to lead inauthentic lives, where simply participating in extracurricular activities merits rewarding them with trophies and gold stars no matter who crosses the proverbial finish line first. They often lack discipline and structure in their lives, sheltered and coddled by helicoptering parents and a gynocentric nanny-school system, and, as a consequence, are becoming mentally and physically fragile and unable to face adversity and confront challenges head on without retreating into “safe spaces.” It is insidious and it is deliberate. Gone, are the halcyon days of cowboys and Indians with pop-guns, roughly playing tug of war in the mud; ‘Nerf guns’ are now shunned by school systems even during recess and radical leftist parents aim to repress normal male behaviors from manifesting themselves in any healthy or positive way. Even drawing pirates wielding guns or ninja’s wielding swords on a piece of paper during class gets young boys traumatized by being forced to undergo ‘evaluation’ sessions in many grade schools’ detention programs; code word for sensitivity training which is just a form of mental indoctrination that strives to recondition them toward emulating passive female behaviors which is now set as the gold standard which they are expected to meet. There is no wonder that millions of men have come to the understanding that masculine behaviors are looked upon poorly by our society. What we have been witnessing is a complete re-structuring of gender roles: It starts early, and there is no turning back to traditionalism. This has led to the rise of a generation of SJW’s and special snowflakes that require trigger warnings when confronted with opposing viewpoints and take to virtue signaling at the earliest sign of distress.

Masculinity is being heavily eroded in all aspects of life for the modern man and there are now many rising internet personalities bringing attention to these issues. This degradation is brought under scrutiny by Youtube commentators such as Sargon of Akkad, Sandman, Paul Elam, Stardusk, Thinking Ape, and Barbarosa and also parodied by comedians such as Bill Burr and Patrice O’Neal; we now have men that are providing easy access to non-conventional information in the form of well thought out memorandums and video segments that would have otherwise been hidden away under troves of psychology textbooks and science journals discussing human behavior and gender dynamics in the most inane and convoluted jargon possible. This is information that the mass media does not have any inclination to share with the general public on any of their popular broadcast channels, nor would it fit into the machinations of their liberal agenda. Much of this information is coming from movements such as MGTOW (Men going their own way) that strive to walk away from what they rightfully see as a corrupt system by grasping the realities of how male/female gender relations truly work and have come to the conclusion that the deck is greatly stacked against them. For this realization they use the metaphor “Taking the Red Pill”, in reference to the first Matrix movie in which the protagonist (Neo) chooses the harsh realities of life over an existence of delusion. Whether it comes to understanding how women are greatly favored in divorce court proceedings and child custody battles or becoming aware of how often men are considered disposable and taken to the cleaners by manipulative women, they are now waking up to witness the consequences that each increasingly fanatical wave of feminism has had on their lives and they are washing their hands of it and by doing so they are achieving a completely liberated state of mind. 

As an ideology, MGTOW is one among many movements that have appeared in recent years in response to combat radical feminism; it allows millions of young men to emerge victorious against it by becoming educated on female nature and understanding the hypocrisy of our gynocentric society that women of the most poisonous varieties thrive in. These commentators provide valuable content which seeks to address these issues in logical and clear-headed manners, thwarting the ‘progressive left’ by pulling down the curtain and exposing the charade of for what it really is: Cultural Marxism, misandry, and emasculation. When this happens, their integrity is often bought into question by these leftists and their masculinity is exigently attacked. They are vilified by liberal media outlets and shunned for even intelligently shedding light on these issue.  While MGTOW and MRA (Men’s rights activism) is one of the more radical philosophies which evolved to counterbalance the decade’s onslaught of feminism, I do not believe it is a viable long term strategy to achieving successful and harmonious gender relations. Freeing oneself from the plantation of marriage (in its current form) and a lifetime of government oversight is essential for male liberation in modern times but it also presents a challenge because when men are not reproducing and existing in stable relationships it creates the problem of racial disintegration and the problem perpetuates itself to the next generation. So in order to change the laws and social structure in such a way that men are restored to their natural roles as leaders rather than followers, these men’s rights movements must therefore become a tenable political movement.

Now, allow yourself to conduct a quick thought experiment: In a world where almost anything can be bought and sold you must ask yourself, what is the one thing that now comes at a premium in western society and, in purely conceptual terms, maintains its weight in gold?

Exclusivity.

It is this idea that by belonging to an exclusive group, one has the ability to bend the rules of the society. This sentiment is as old as human history itself; nay older. This persists today in the form of elitism and it brings along with it a sense of Self-righteousness that seeks to compensate for an otherwise fragile ego. One who belongs to a certain privileged class by having used this elitist method of social manipulation to put oneself into a position of power attains a Machiavellian sense of accomplishment by first gaining the necessary social status to garner approval from the society at large. They then use their ability of status to render control over anyone they consider beneath them in the hierarchical structure. This is how power has always worked.

We live in the digital age where entire libraries of information lay at our fingertips. In a connected world where anything can be learned by anyone, one need only study hard to achieve levels of intellect and wisdom that was at one time available only to scholars. We even have access to “hidden” and “occult” information that was at one time considered forbidden and discussed only amongst the social elite. Higher Academia has been deeply infiltrated by ultra-left-wing radical professors that are sympathetic to fringe organizations and movements such as 3^rd wave feminism; black lives matter, social justice (SOCJUS) and they are offering curriculum's which have attracted a host of leftist students that have been all too willing to further contribute to this ongoing social decay. Take for example, ‘Womens studies’: Classes like these focus on granting a false sense of legitimacy to its student base by perpetuating a culture of self-victimization  and ‘empowering’ women by brainwashing them about the evils of the patriarchy (which has built, brick by brick, the very world we live in, mind you) and the perils of ‘rape culture’ as though it is some insidious undercurrent in western society orchestrated solely against women when in fact the numbers of actual rape statistics are drastically overinflated. 

Rape is a horrible crime no matter which gender it is committed against, but we must also keep in perspective also, that males are far more likely to be victims of rape than accused of it.  1-6 boys experience sexual assault by the age of 18, according to 1-6.org. But of course, by painting a narrative of women as the only victims of this crime it becomes an avenue to conveniently ignoring males plight as they are just as likely to be victims of it if not more so, because they are less likely to come forward.

College classrooms in the postmodern world have become nothing more than institutionalized breeding grounds for “progressives” and cultural Marxists. There are even institutions such as Merrimack College, for example, that offer courses on so called social justice studies (SOCJ 1100) as well as liberal arts. By sitting through lectures and rote memorizing a series of powerpoint bulletins and statistics cooked up for standardized tests,  anyone with basic literacy can pass one of these courses while contributing very little in terms of critical thinking aside from parroting hyperbole they heard coming from Andrea Dworkin’s disgusting pig lips. Many up and coming social justice warriors crave this validation through obtaining paper qualifications to reinforce the exclusivity of their elitist worldview with the intent of looking down upon anyone that has not attained the ‘standards’ of their “academic success”. 

College is in fact, a racket. It is a rigged system that many economists have begun to question in regards to its practical ability to grant the majority of graduates’ financial independence after the tremendous burden of debt in the form of student loans with added interest is saddled upon them. Funneling graduates into a job market where six figure salary positions have become an increasingly scarce prospect has been a recipe for disaster due to the low growth of our slowing economy. If the lucky few with trust fund parents don’t pay for their college tuition, then in most cases these graduates effectively wind up paying off their debt for decades while working as wage slaves in the service sector. 

 Many young women today seek to become ‘sugar babies’ to older men driving BMW’s to pay off their tuition in exchange for sex, further relying on the hypo-agency of their bodies as the only valuable asset they possess. This dynamic extends towards many relationships today occurring between men and women where the “romance” of the affair gets invariably reduced to little more than transaction for women in a bid to attain resources. A woman of this caliber does not love a man: she only loves what he can do for her, and she is often shameless about this fact, when in the past, women with this intent were shamed by other women whereas today, they are encouraged for this behavior and they wonder why it is backfiring. These types of relationships are detrimental in the long term as they are taking advantage of desperate men who are eager to show off these young women as trophies: It is objectification in the purest sense and the men that indulge in them are often ignorant to the superficiality of their arrangement until it is too late when their trophy wife leaves her beta-male provider for a younger and/or wealthier man at no consequence to her whatsoever. In addition to this, Universities have become debt-factories producing legions of disenfranchised youth clutching a piece of paper while not even guaranteed a job. While it is true that there are many courses offering advanced degrees in specialized fields such as engineering, law, physics, medicine, chemistry and many other noble pursuits that grant success for some, it also provides pathways for radical leftists and disciples of SOCJUS to exploit by obtaining credentials in pseudo-intellectual classes which require the absolute minimal amount of effort to complete. They then use this token of exclusivity in their adult life which transfers into professional settings.

“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”    -H.L.  Mencken

Coming soon

Part Two: Debunking the myth of male privilege.