First of all:
NO, I never supported nazi (or communsim). No, Aryanne wasn’t my favorite OC.
I’m a neutral party here, who’s simply concerned about the site’s future.
Message to the Derpibooru Community:
Please, understand that if you accept one such simple censorship, this site will have a lot of other things removed eventually, because their removal can be reasoned in the same exact way (just like Aryanne is going to be banned regardless of context, even).
All it would take is one public article focusing on them, and they will be gone.
It’s very easy to reason the removal of a lot of things:
Let’s take Rape for example (this site has twice as much arts tagged with it than “nazi”):
- Rape is a real world problem. It can harm or kill people now (and it did in the past), and it shouldn’t be promoted or trivialized.
- Nazi is a real world problem. It can harm or kill people now (and it did in the past), and it shouldn’t be promoted or trivialized.
See the similarities?
And beside Rape there are a lot of other things on this site that can be potentially viewed as promotion or trivializing of very bad or harmful things.
If we continue accepting the removal of ALL potentially harmful pics from the site,
then eventually all potentially harmful or trivializing fetish arts will be gone as well.
Why stop there?
Some public article in the future might shame Derpibooru just for having explicit pony content at all.
Then what? The site will become “safe for work” rated only?
Regarding the Aryanne issue.
Yes, neo-nazi can potentially use her image to try to promote something, but they can promote their ideology in MANY other ways, even she never existed.
And I agree that if Aryanne picture shows her in the context of performing/supporting Nazi ideology, or has slogans in the art that promote Nazi, then it should NOT be allowed on the site.
But blocking shouldn’t involve ANY picture of Aryanne, just because she’s present there.
Ayanne was a created during the times bronies were ponifying everything: she was a ponified generic nazi girl.
Communists were ponified as well. Even web browsers were ponified… Everything was ponified.
It’s not trivializing, it’s ponifying.
Seriously, this whole situation is a big mess…