Honestly, this is a huge mistake on their part. The right's been testing anti-furry messaging, complete with breathless misinformation (litter boxes in the bathrooms, anyone?), and I don't think that it's going well because it never seems to stick around for long. Furryism is popular enough that most working age adults and teens know someone who's a furry or are one themselves, and they, like most folks, are generally nice people who just want to be left in peace. By contrast, I don't think most folks know or know that they know a trans person, so it's easier to sell fearmongering bullshit with regards to them.

[–] themelm@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I doubt most people know an open furry. But there's always been antifurry hate since they're kinda weird and niche and you can always try and link them to bestiality but just like now its always just been a thinly veiled wedge to start hating on gay and trans people and really anyone different. I think a lot more people understand intellectually someone who was born male but identifies as a woman than the whole fursona thing. Honestly antifurry rhetoric seems like an easy predictor to all kinds of minority hate. Love the litter box in the bathroom one have to tell people that's obviously stupid all the time.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

They're not gonna give up because they viciously hate furries (for the most part, there are some fucking weird Nazi furs and i will never understand that) but yeah, that message just doesn't resonate with people who live in the real world.

[–] alongwaysgone@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 'litter boxes in the bathrooms' continues to come up, like clockwork every few months. It's absurd. As fucking if anyone has ever actually put a litter box in a bathroom in a gods damned school.

[–] themelm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I assume someone did put a litterbox in a school bathroom to bully some kid. We had a girl who liked to pretend to be a cat in grade 7 and people would bark at her and shed hiss and run away, wouldn't surprise me in the least if someone had put a litterbox in the bathroom to bully her. Never did see her again after that year I assume she did homeschooling/distance learning after that.