Is the My Little Pony Fan Community Really Full of Nazis?

Just more media TDS. They should look for NAZIs in the BDS movement!

https://quillette.com/2020/06/27/is-the-my-little-pony-fan-community-really-full-of-nazis/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/my-little-pony-nazi-4chan-black-lives-matter/613348/

The Atlantic recently published an exposé on the urgent problem of Nazis in the subculture of “Bronies,” adult fans of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cartoon.

However, claims that a significant portion of the Brony community are Nazis, or that a significant amount of the content on Brony imageboards is right-wing propaganda or racist memes has to be put in the proper context. First of all, the 926 images tagged “racist” exist on a board that hosts over two million images. If you order all the site’s various tags by how many images fall within their categories, there are 12 full pages of other, more popular tags you have to scroll through to find the “racism” tag. One thousand two hundred and seventy-five images are tagged “politics” and include images both supporting and opposing Black Lives Matter. Discussion of these issues is a tiny fraction of one percent of the content on the My Little Pony imageboard.

The Atlantic article fails to place the 926 racist images in the context of the larger scope of the two million images hosted by the Derpibooru board, because less than one-quarter of one percent of the site’s content is of a political nature. And the Atlantic article avoids mentioning the half-million pornographic images the site hosts, because doing so reveals that the community’s widespread opposition to content moderation on their imageboard is about protecting sexually explicit content rather than creating a space for hateful politics to flourish, and it further reveals that the Bronies are 500 times more interested in having sex with My Little Pony characters than they are in spreading racist pony memes.

News media rushed to cover this trend, hiring reporters whose entire beat was the alt-Right, white nationalists and other far-right extremists. But the mainstreaming of these ideologies never happened. After the violence at the 2017 Charlottesville march—an event which only attracted about 500 far-right activists—the alt-Right never mustered again. When organizers attempted a second Unite The Right event in Washington, D.C. in 2018, fewer than 30 alt-right activists showed up, and were surrounded by thousands of counter-protesters.