There's no reason anyone should be taking hyperbolic comments about furries on this Lithuanian basket weaving forum seriously.
Furry isn't a thing you should be taking personally. Furry is not something you should be identifying with.
Furry isn't a community, its a vague ass entertainment category.
Saying you like cartoon animals and fantasy creatures shouldn't be any more of an "identity" than it is an "identity" to be be someone who enjoys music, to enjoy books, to enjoy television, to enjoy movies, or to enjoy video games.
Sonic the Hedgehog fandom for example might be considered a community (not the best example given that Sonic the Hedgehog is now a multi-generational scene in which each generation was exposed to vastly different content).
Video games are not a community or a fandom in any real sense any more so than people who watch television might be a fandom.
Furry is a vague ass entertainment category that developed under the exact WRONG conditions of coming up alongside the internet before it attained a sense of what the heck it was trying to be, and ended up becoming an over-bloated scene attempting desperately to function as a unified fandom or community.
Its like a big bus with no steering wheel where something like half a dozen conductors elected by chance and popularity and not by merit insinuated themselves to the front of the bus, and instruct all the chattering, gabbering, half-indifferent passengers to try to lean to the left or the right in a vague attempt to steer the bus, and whether or not their directions have any effect, their intentions in the direction they intended to steer weren't wholesome or constructive to begin with, regardless of how many people on the bus may or may not have approved of said direction or even were aware of it.
There's no excuse for the apparent nexus of fandom activity, that being Furaffinity, to permit "bestiality" and "zoophilia" to exist on the site as valid search terms.
On the old and now defunct Nintendo of America "NSider" gaming forums, there was in its later days an offshoot of 4chan wannabe high schoolers who made an alternative forum called "Outsider" where they made fun of the NOA staff that ran the board, targeted members for trolling, and allowed content that was against the rules of the NSider website, and naturally Outsider became infamous on NSider.
NOA just added the fake word "outsid" to blocked search terms on their forum to prevent people from easily searching for mentions of the Outsider forums within their own website.
Instead of preventing inquiries into content, even if purely fictional, which could be accurately described using the terms "bestiality" or "zoophilia", they not only allow those inquiries, but permit that content to exist and be tagged as such.
This site, as I understand, allows CHILDREN to sign up and become members.
The idea that a site that specializes in adults only content to such a degree as this would allow children to join is extremely troubling, the detail that they'd need to input an age indicating adulthood and then manually disable easily accessible adult-content toggles means nothing.
A kid who finds this stuff, feels involved with the "community" and then finds that half or more of the material from their favorite artists is hidden from them is naturally going to be curious, and that's not to mention bullshit like people leaving inappropriate, fetish driven comments like someone dropping in uninvited on a harmless, "soft PG" rated piece of art of a fully clothed and tasteful character becoming a werewolf with something like "murr I want to do things to his pawbs >:3" or something like that which a kid would still get exposed to even when interacting with purely unobjectional art submissions.
So yeah, those in charge of this place are gonna allow soft and hardcore porn, including art the artists themsleves tag as "bestiality" on a site at the forefront where they KNOW kids are signing up if even just for the ability to interact with the fandom, but then complain about unfair treatment when outsiders with only a passing knowledge of furry associate them with hardcore porn and bestiality and possibly luring and grooming kids to pick up antisocial sexual interests.
And once again these deleniations on what they do and don't find acceptable are totally arbitrary, they'll allow artwork which is very obviously an artistic depiction of the sexual abuse of a non-anthropomorphic, non-sapient animal by a human being (something that even arguments like the "harkness test" or "its just a fantasy critter" can't be applied to), things which can be replicated in real life, or allow art depicting furries engaging in acts of rape or muder which can be replicated IRL, but then blow a gasket over artistic depictions of incest, and STILL allow artists to post the same piece across multiple sites in which on one site the piece is tagged incest and the artist describes the characters as siblings or as parent and child, but on Furaffinity insist that they're just similar looking friends or have an age difference, its a total farce.
And then Shaun Piche, when not engaging in his degenerate lifestyle of transforming into a digimon baby and pilfering bags of cheetos from french owned convenience stores, has the nerve to ban a user from the Furaffinity for "demoting the reputation of the fandom" by daring to appear on a television show and be honest about the most benign and harmless (though still obviously ridiculous) elements of the adult aspects of furry, while Piche himself has commissioned tons of adults only artwork of their original characters.
This is the behavior of someone who doesn't care about being family friendly and keeping a clean environment (something that needn't be necessary if he established FA as a proper adults-only space with strict codes of conduct), but of someone who cares about APPEARING 100% wholesome, about being "marketable" without actually earning that reputation.
This wouldn't be a problem if some dumb ass's website and a handful of others with similar poor enforcement of standards didn't become the forefront of the entire furry universe, but they did, and nothing meaningful has been done to even attempt to reverse it, because to do so would be to dismantle the community and face some painful realities such as "hey, maybe this fandom shouldn't be structured in such a way a homophobic neo nazi white supremacist and a transgendered gay jew are said to belong to the same community based purely on the fact that both might have some form of interest in toon critters".
As has been said, this false sense of community has sheltered bad people, and enough people are out there who care more about mitigating damage and trying to combate the APPEARANCE of their house having Termites and mice, as opposed to stipping their house down to the timbers and destroying the infestations at their source.
But because of the way the "fandom" or "community" is structured, a large number of the people who would be able to collectively make a difference or force improvement and hate living with a house with termites, aren't the landlord to their own house and can't call an exterminator, and have the choice of either putting up with living in an infested house that while having pests in the walls don't necessarily cause TOO many daily problems as long as they keep the house as clean as they're able to, would rather put up with that reality than move out and try to eke it out in a tent city that appears to be the only alternative.
Furry isn't something that makes sense to adopt as a sense of self or identity any more so than books or video games. Those may be genuinely important things to you, but they aren't who you are, they're a vaguely defined entertainment category, and even more so when that entertainment category has essentially been managed in its near entirety as though it were a trademarked commercial brand by a handful of people who refuse to act like adults and enforce standards of behavior, and care more about the appearance of being good people than actually being good people, and this culture is reflective of enough people that a video defending Kero's activities gets THOUSANDS of positive ratings, either from people who assume his innocence based on their unwillingness to change their mind about him, or based on the possibility of them supporting zoophile behavior.
Piche literally contacted Ian Dettmering and advised him to be more low key about his participation in the underground bestiality porn circuit. This isn't even a matter of some guy who filmed home video tapes with his dog in their house, though that would be bad enough but Ian is a guy who acted in the pay of a company that set up actual studio sets with proper lights and cameras and pressed DVDs of people being sodomized by trained/drugged dogs, among other things, and Piche being aware of this decided the conversation to have wasn't "get the fuck out of our community absolutely right now for sure, your activities will be forwarded to the police", but "lol please stop bragging about starring in dog porn it makes us look bad".
When someone here says "fuck furries", or describes obviously hyperbolic acts of violence against furries in general THAT is what they mean.
Don't respond personally to something that can't possibly be taken personally unless you make it about yourself.
If you aren't doing fucked up things or apologizing for fucked up people, don't worry about it when people complain about a scene that has actual fucked up things wrong with it.
It would be like a man on top of a hill watching a train with a sign bearing the words "Please beware the train." attached to the side, travel along a railroad in the distance and the man upon seeing this sign pointing to the bottom of the hill as the train rolls uneventfully by, and screams, "How dare the driver of the train taunt me with that sign, he's cleary making fun of me! How dare he insinuate that I'm not careful around trains!" and then run down to the bottom of the hill, onto the tracks, directly in front of the oncoming train, shaking his fists in anger at the engineer, demanding him to apologize for placing the offensive and insulting sign on the side of his train.
