Furry began as a marginalized community and grew to be more inclusive as time went on.

In that time, Fascism has only succeeded once - 4 years ago with harassment of venues by alt-furry resulting in the closure of conventions.

But how could this happen in furry?
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Furry has consistently been recorded throughout its existence as the most fascist-opposing fandom.

And yet, in 2016, a fascist cell (tumor) grew inside of furry to attack the fandom seemingly unopposed for a time.

Was this complacency?

Denial?

No.
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Rather, I would argue that it was a failure to acknowledge and apply lessons learned in a changing climate.

The Burned Furs of the late 90's were not originally a fascist group, nor where they political invaders. They were furries with divergent ideas.

(stay with me)...

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Early on, the Burned Furs we mostly ignored and seen as a harmless few who just didn't get it, but that would change shortly.

Not long after their emergence, the Burned Furs message began including demands of purity, to exclude the inclusion of LGBTQ representation.
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And their existence, while arguably short lived, was not without harm.

Fortunately, the marginalized community that was and still is furry came together and successful stood against the demands. The Burned Furs became irrelevant.

But therein lies the mistake.
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We forgot. We thought that this was a one-off anomaly.

Today, few furries even know of the Burned Furs or the dangers they posed, and we allowed history to repeat itself.

Go-to the 2010's, a new furry pride group calling themselves the Furry Raiders emerges.

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Much like the Burned Furs, the Raiders were small and harmless; united by a divergent idea of what furry identity was.

Also like the Burned Furs, they were largely ignored.

Fastforward a couple years to the hostile takeover by Foxler and crew.

Furry pride became nationalism.
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Still, no one could see the danger, and those warning of the next Burned Furs were brushed off as alarmists.

This was made worse as those who agreed with furry nationalism but thought of Foxler as too cartoonish to follow broke off to form alt-furry proper.
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Unlike the Raiders, alt-furry was aggressively racist, demanding, and unapologetic. They used a pipeline formed by a loose alliance with the Raiders to funnel new furries into their views through cartoonish indoctrination.

AND STILL few took notice.
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Fastforward to ~2016. Alt-furry and the Furry Raiders had successfully worked together to organize a network of radicalized furries united under a common proud identity as a cover for fascism.

Using this private army from within furry, convention venues became targeted by...
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...mass phone harassment. Alt-furry was successful in permanently dismantling a convention from within.

But it didn't stop there - alt-furry used this threat to hold other conventions hostage unless furry bent to their will and granted them a place within our fandom.
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However, this was not to be. Compounding issues within alt-furry and a united resistance from the furry fandom at large saw that they would never have a place here, and further, hate would be barred from our community.

If that wasn't enough, a secret circle of antifa-furs...
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