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 (DIR) Post #B7uMG8OSAG4rMZtVIm by aisling@critters.gay
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       part of why i hate the idea of furry as an inherently leftist subculture is that i refuse to believe that any subculture has any political ideology as its essence. ultimately they are subcultures and subcultures are messy mixtures of whoever happens to be interested in them. a subculture may be majority-left or majority-right, but it's not gonna be politically unified to justify the "inherently x" label. any subculture that's politically unified is not a subculture, it's a political movement.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7uMG8bvMAqw2MCGIa by aisling@critters.gay
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       and for me? furry has been an important social substrate for meeting other leftists, anarchists, feminists, etc. we can celebrate this without assigning the furry subculture the tall order of being "inherently leftist".
       
 (DIR) Post #B7uMG8lqlGnCX8qBlo by aisling@critters.gay
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       like the fact that furry brings creatures together is enough to justify its existence as a subculture. the "meeting other leftists" part is a perk, and it exists because a lot of us did the boring unglamorous work of learning leftist theory and engaging in leftist praxis. "furry is leftist" smooshes this all together in an unhelpful way.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7uMG8vQBgRt0pJpgm by aisling@critters.gay
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       there's also this neurosis where people feel like everything they do has to be a form of activism, they're not allowed to do anything just for fun, and this is immensely corrosive to actual activist movements