Readdressing the Nazi problem. This needs to be done.

I’m not going to beat around the bush any longer. I wholly believe derpibooru really needs to reconsider its backpedaling on forbidding Nazi-related imagery here.
 
The fact an OC like Aryanne as the one with the third most numerous pics: That’s saying something. Nazis and white supremacists do not belong in anything relating to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Keyword being FRIENDSHIP. There’s a reason Nazis are one of the most horrendous factions to exist in human history: Enacting genocide on entire ethnicities, homosexuals and the handicapped, deeming them as lesser beings, while regarding women as living baby factories. They have nothing to do with friendship that goes past how one looks, where they are from and how they differ from others.
 
People claiming to love MLP:FiM while adhering to Nazi or white supremacist ideals are either just trying to turn others in the fandom to their ideals, or completely miss the point about a show where pastel-colored ponies, whom I might add are a veritable rainbow of different colors, on top of three distinct races/sub-species, as well as other fantastical species come together to try and coexist harmoniously, which is ultimately what ends up winning the day every time. No matter what mental gymnastics these people are willing to go through to try and rationalize how ponies ascribe to their inhumane views of the world.
 
They can preach all they want about how I’m being intolerant, allegedly, while thinking their intolerance should be tolerated. There’s many reasons why Bronies (a label I ceased associating with since 2018) nowadays have gone from “oh, how nice that people can be secure in what they like” to being associated with pedophiles, creepers, neurotic twats with nothing better to do with their lives and, of course, the fucking Nazis.
 
If there’s any way to salvage this fandom, we really do need to step up. Nazis and white supremacists do not, DO NOT, belong in this fandom that is meant to be about love and companionship. If you’re going to threaten to come at me with pitchforks and torches, well keep proving my point right.

“Someone I don’t like likes the same thing that I like and now I’m mad. How could this be happening to me?”

@Background Pony #5F7D
 
Take you all day to come up with that one?

haha  
no

@WolfJarl  
Brony comes from /b/rony, ala 4chan. Technically /co/ used it ironically, but the /b/ crowd took it and ran with it. Tolerate Intolerance was the original slogan of the fandom entirely, coined by /b/rony Vector!Haste with a series of vectored wallpapers created to show it off. This evolved into the eventual slogan Love and Tolerance through the input of others, including myself.
 
This group is, by what was outlined in the founding of the community, ideologically neutral. We have not, nor will we ever support a political wing or cause as a monolith. We have no control over who can identify as a brony or who can be a fan of the show, nor should we have any control over what people in this fandom can create. Back in the day, the fanfiction Cupcakes made a lot of people upset because it was grim and dark and did not belong with Friendship is Magic as a concept, but many of the best things we, as a fandom, have created have been grim, dark or otherwise not in character with the show or the spirit of Friendship is Magic as a cartoon.
 
Back then, I was opposed to spreading Cupcakes and I opposed the creation of grimdark content in general related to the show, but I (unlike the current political push into the realms of the fandom) did not ever once tell people they weren’t allowed to make something or that things they make should not be allowed to be shared. Advocacy against the creation of content is not an issue, nor has it ever been an issue. The line should be, indeed, must be drawn where we as a community would disallow the creation or sharing of pony content we do not like.
 
Let us be absolutely blunt here: Nazi imagery, presented straight or satirically, is a whole lot less damaging to both the image and the atmosphere of this community than foalcon is, presented straight or satirically. Furthermore: If this community creates either, given that all of it is nothing more than artistic depiction of things, then as disgusting as I find either of them (Nazism when presented straight, foalcon either way), in order to protect the rights of the community artists, in order to preserve the point of the community, which was to be accepting to all pony fans regardless of whether or not we agree with them, we must allow artists to create whatever they want.
 
It is not fair nor right to attempt to curate what the community is allowed to create or share, and if this site is going to label itself a place for the community’s artwork, it should be as ideologically neutral as possible to match the broader point of the community. Gore, porn, ideological imagery, religious imagery, mouthpiece pictures… All of these run directly against the spirit of the show, and all of them are a part of this community, whether anyone likes it or not.
 
As an artist who has drawn things that under your own guidelines of ‘strictly sticking to the spirit of the show’ would be banned, I strongly suggest you consider whether or not you actually want the implementation of your own ideas. Your gallery is literally full of things that could be banned for the same reason you’re suggesting this should be.

@WolfJarl  
Would this be good time to point out that the people who are claiming that the entire brony fandom are Nazi or racist turn out to have a few skeletons in their closets. Same with People who hate all anime because it doesn’t fit their ideals.

My question is how can we get site administers to not get so spooked about censorship, so this can be followed up on?

@Torvo  
Better question is why would people believe articles written by The Sun or Polygon? Also censorship led to more division in different communities.

@phoenixacezero  
It’s a tricky issue, on when to put ones foot down at the risk of stepping onto a slippery slope. But this was more a topic thought on back in 2020 before the tragic incident that spurred the Sun and Polygon articles. Nazis are a joke to a vast majority of the online circles, but some could make the valid argument a few jokes aren’t worth hosting the rare, genuine article. I’m not really pro-censorship or pro-freedom, too tricky of an issue IMHO to fully take a side.
 
But what other communities are you referring to, I’m honestly all ears to perspectives.

I have drawn Aryanne multiple times. I have also clopped to Aryanne multiple times. Does either of these automatically make me a nazi and a white supremacist? I’d say no.  
Also Aryanne is a joke, a meme. If one gets upset at such things, perhaps one should rethink their place on the inter webs.

@Torvo  
All communities. The censorship made race relations worst.

@Pizzamovies
 
 
dude I clopped my beef to ur pic and it made me VERY angry. also the serious memes are funny the joke memes are not funny get that nazi shit off of here

@WolfJarl  

 
You’re barking at the wall. In your tiny little closed mind everything must work in absolutes and satire doesn’t exist. OCs such as Aryanne must be doing their jobs quite well, which is to make people like you mad.
 

 
And there we have it, spoken like a true outsiders who has no idea what he’s talking about. Why should we, as a community, listen to one such as you? You clearly don’t want association with us anymore and that’s wholly on you, it’s you who’s looking for nazis under your bed every night after all. In fact, if you’re just here to talk out of your ass then maybe the best course of action for you and everyone else involved would be if you just left already. Go cry in some other corner about your imaginary enemies and specially don’t expect people to just bend over backwards because of your ignorance.

@KingOfGenies  
Some people tend to misinterpret memes. Also the word Nazi seem to get thrown around a lot.

@phoenixacezero
 
You’re reply literally means nothing, the pony literally has a swastika cutie mark, ROFL

@KingOfGenies  
Okay this is pretty funny, not sure if you’re reply is meant to be humorous or not.  
So, you masturbated to a Safe image of Aryanne (I only draw Safe images of her) and got angry? Damn dude.  
But if you’re reply isn’t satire then I will say if this attitude is given towards Nazis (or anything with a swastika) surely you must feel the same towards Rape, Murder, Foalcon, etc. All things that shouldn’t be tied to My Little Pony.

@Pizzamovies
 
Maybe we shouldn’t rape, murder, or fuck children then ROFL

@KingOfGenies  
I’m pretty sure no one here, or that will post here, does any of that. I also don’t think you’re about to compare cartoon ponies to real human children, because who would do that.  
You seem to think that because real Nazis did a lot of terrible things, that they shouldn’t exist in any form of media.

@Pizzamovies
 
Because in media the people typically portrayed as Nazis are the bad guys and are typically killed off and aren’t glorified like that oc in a way to literally “clop” to.

@KingOfGenies  
You are worried about a fictional character or a drawing. It just worrying about video game violence- silly because it is like video game violence cause real world violence- something gamer knew instantly but took scientist and and some journalists years to get through their thick skull.

@KingOfGenies  
Of course they are betrayed as the bad guys, as they should be. No one will argue against that.  
But as to making memes, jokes, shitposts, and porn; I see nothing wrong with that. The pony isn’t a real Nazi, it hasn’t killed anyone. It is a complete work of fiction, created by someone that just happens to be based off of something bad.  
This is the age old argument of getting mad at a bad thing that doesn’t exist. If it doesn’t exist, it can’t upset anyone unless they are looking to get upset.  
Now if someone just uploaded a picture of Hitler who just happens to be holding a pony plush, then I can absolutely understand an outcry. It’s an image of a real Nazi, who did Nazi things. That’s what doesn’t belong.