@Background Pony #0E67
Absolutely not that’s not what that means. Do you have any idea how a marketplace of ideas works? It’s about challenging things in the open and not letting them fester. If you genuinely believe your ideas are better you have nothing to fear from open competition. The idea with the most merit will win.
@Princess Luna
Gleeful expressions indicate support? Are
you insane? The former picture here is famous as an example of a gleeful expression
content wise that depicts terror behind, and the other is a picture literally posted of President Trump
on an article critical of him. The expression of characters in a picture indicates nothing more than the disposition of the characters in question in the moment in question. Oftentimes the most effective horror is conveyed behind neutral or normal smiling faces. I would like to point to the ‘Mind Break’ fetish tag as a clear example of this being absolutely unevenly applied. If smiling faces are seen as a sign of support then
most of the images under that should be seen as ‘supportive’ of rape. If
context is what matters, then
both are equally wrong on the face of it. The catch 22 still applies here.
@Derpy Whooves
Then offer a rebuttal. Show me how the bias doesn’t exist. If you can’t you’re only going to prove the point of everyone here arguing that it does. I’ve offered ample opportunity to argue, demonstrate or functionally process that the way things are being handled violates the idea of an unbiased archive. Kindly give me any argument that supports your position, or stop pretending that you have an answer you don’t have.
@Derpy Whooves
I would INFINITELY prefer that artist be on this site and a part of this community than yourself. I mean, it looks like we banned you repeatedly on your very first day here, and it seems the only reason you are on this site is because you feed on drama.
But, as I am pretty sure I have said consistently throughout all of this, if you’re only here to post nazi ponies or to join in a nazi-pone themed community, then I really wish you’d find a more appropriate site.
The fact that you play favorites helps prove my point too. I wouldn’t and
don’t want any voices silenced, you, by your own admission here, value some over others because you disagree with their perspectives or their reasons for being here
even though we’re all part of the one community that actually this site was set out to be for: the pony community. There’s really no getting around it from what you’ve said. Your bias is worn on your sleeve, which is commendable, in comparison to others who would hide theirs – but it’s still clear and undeniable bias.
@Princess Luna
1 - Aryanne in character, still a parody of real racism, still a joke that doesn’t make real Nazis.
2 - Understandable. It’s barely pony related and it is a real world nazi. (technically one might say that it’s a point about how real Nazis would hate ponies and thus relevant satire to this whole drama at this point, but I digress.)
3 - Again, Aryanne in character, still a parody of prejudice, still a joke that doesn’t make real Nazis.
4 - Gilda was banging on the window in that picture, clearly distressed, by your own rules earlier in this thread this picture flies because there’s an, as I’ve put it before
in image disclaimer as to how bad it is. I can only suggest that this image was deleted because it was very popular in the wake of the controversy, despite the established subrules of the rule in question in this very thread.
My arguments still stand, from before and now. Your rules are vague and their application uneven. The whole thing smacks of staff bias and an unwelcoming atmosphere for parts of the community that other parts of the community would have excised, had they the power. I have been and remain open to all arguments in favor of anything, but all I receive every time is inconsistent and unhealthy to the idea of freedom of expression. If you truly value that freedom of expression as more than just a casualty of this conflict, you really should reconsider the road you walk. The pony community is bigger than you, your politics, your tastes, myself, my politics, my tastes or anything and all things between combined. This was a home to that community, but you are quickly losing them. I have been personally contacted by over twenty people (and I’d like to stress: on my private channels) who have friends involved with elements of the site staff or those in favor of censoring content on this site who have informed me directly that they are too intimidated to speak out themselves against what’s happening here and that they feel bullied and suppressed by the environment this is creating, an environment not created through the openness of the community (which would not be the staff’s fault) but one created through specifically bending the rules to suit elements of the community that would silence another (which falls squarely on the shoulders of those who make the rules). These aren’t even the kind of people to
draw Nazi pony and neither am I. If that doesn’t make it clear that something is rotten here, I don’t know what will.
