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A_Wild_Alt_Appears@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks agoComing up with imaginary scenarios where it’s suddenly moral to have sex with kids or sheep is super weird and creepy.
Coming up with imaginary scenarios where being a furry is about wanting to fuck sheep is also weird, and yet here we are. My closest friend is a furry and has zero interest in sexualizing her sonas or other people’s, she just likes drawing herself as dog characters. For her it’s a way of processing different parts of herself by personifying them as separate characters, and she enjoys anthropomorphic animals as an aesthetic 🤷🏻
The rhetoric you’re using is exactly the same harmful stuff folks say about queer folks, complete with the same leap in logic from whats happening (drawing anthro characters in various contexts including sexual ones, having queer relationships including queer sex) to something intrinsically harmful (animal abuse, pedophilia).
Your own post is just you venting that you hate people that seem weird to you. How would anyone learn anything from that when you clearly didn’t?
Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Everyone in the world is never going to condone or be a fan of anything everyone else in the world does.
People who get off to anthropomorphized animals seem to have something wrong with their minds. I’m not going to lie about that or act as though I don’t see it that way. There’s a massive distinction between being honest that you don’t understand or like a thing and it doesn’t fit your values and world view, and trying to whip up a mob to kill people who do that thing.
The fall-back to comparing anyone who dislikes anything to racists or homophobes known for intolerant violence is lazy.
A_Wild_Alt_Appears@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
I make the comparison because as a queer person it directly fits. The argument and the argument homophobes make are cut from the same rhetorical cloth and have the exact same faulty logic.
Claiming it’s hollow without engaging with the argument I’m making is a lazy way to deflect from the need to reflect or rebut anything I’m saying
Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, they’re not. This is lazy idiocy. You could take any human complaining about any thing they don’t like, replace the thing they actually don’t like with “Jew”, and scream they antisemitic. It’s a pathetic attempt to make anyone who doesn’t like anything look like a horrible monster.
The rhetorical cloth only seems to fit because you cut out the most important part and replaced it with something that would work for the picture you’re trying to paint. It is hollow.
A_Wild_Alt_Appears@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
Being a furry isnt about fucking animals, but you’re saying its about beasitiality
Being gay or trans isn’t about fucking kids, but homophobes say it is.
You are leaping from the thing that makes you uncomfortable to a moral argument that isnt actually supported by the thing you’re critiszing.
The arguments have exactly the same flaw. And the fact you can make any critisism into antisemitism doesnt mean that you just shouldn’t engage with it when someone’s critisism is directly mirroring all the tropes of bigotry
Which to be clear, being a furry isnt a protected class or anything, its a subculture. But your “deviancy” argument is literally just exactly word for word what people say about queer folks complete with the exact same foundational flaw