Now Neo-Nazis Are Picking Fights With… Furries?

I… what… the thing… words… WHAT IN THE HOLY CRAP IS THIS???

People, I think I have now seen it all. I do not say that lightly (Dear World: Do NOT take that as a challenge!)

The Daily Beast (never has that name been more appropriate) has this story detailing the sinister turn of events that has consumed the furry world. And while I usually stay far, far, far, FAR away from furries – if you tell me there are freaking NEO-NAZIS trying to pick fights with furries… Well, it’s like a train wreck. I want to look away. I should look away. But I can’t look away.

Please, join me in this insanity. I can’t do it alone –

The war began when a fascist party and its armband-clad leader led a putsch. Antifascists mobilized in response. Threats of violence ensued.
Then the Rocky Mountain Fur Con canceled all future events.
The Fur Con is an annual summit in Denver, Colorado, for “furries,” people who present themselves as animals, from donning full-body fur suits to adopting “fursonas” for their character. And just as in the rest of America, a lot of furries resemble Nazis lately.

So… is it acceptable to punch a fox in the face if he’s a Nazi? Or even if you think he might be a Nazi? I NEED ANSWERS, PEOPLE!

(Good Lord, why do I need these answers? Someone help…)

And in the ensuing months, the furry community did some soul-searching. While the #AltFurry hashtag grew in popularity at the tail end of 2016 and into 2017, a left-wing movement rose to meet them. The antifa furry movement coalesced around a rallying cry of “Nazi Furs Fuck Off,” and began organizing to block perceived Nazis from furry gatherings.
In January 2017, the Furry Raiders’ hotel putsch was still on some anti-fascist furs’ minds when a group began discussing the Furry Raiders on Twitter.
“My friend made a tweet and I responded with a joke saying ‘can’t wait to punch these nazis,’” Deo said.

Apparently so…

The details are (if you REALLY need them) is that last year’s Fur Con ended in an out-and-out fight because of the presence of the Nazi-type furry faction “the Furry Raiders.” The fight has continued since then, but con organizers are trying to avoid that happening again. I think –

In Colorado, this splinter group calls itself the Furry Raiders. In 2016 the Raiders sent fur flying when they reserved a large block of Fur Con hotel rooms, sparking a fight that has lasted a year and led to death threats, allegations of tax evasion, intrigue around a suspected sovereign citizen, and the discovery of a sex offender on the Fur Con board. On Monday, Fur Con leaders chickened out of the convention altogether.
The Furry Raiders’ leader, a man named Foxler who dresses in a fox suit with a Nazi-like armband (no swastika, only a paw print), told The Daily Beast the convention’s cancellation all stems from a big misunderstanding.
“You could say a whole bunch of unfortunate events led to the particular issue,” he said.
Foxler claims he’s not trying to evoke Hitler, never mind his name (a combination of “Fox” and his supposed surname “Miller”), his Nazi-like armband (he says is based on a character in an old video game), or pictures of him throwing his arm up in a Nazi-like salute (an accident, he said).

So, not only do we have to endure leftist weirdos screaming about Nazis in everyday life, even the weirdos of the furry persuasion have to do it too??

@KELLYWEILL I got halfway down the rabbit hole and was subsequently scrambling back up toward daylight. What the hell did I just read… pic.twitter.com/4XMqmjqERA

— Kyle Jahner (@kylejahner) April 14, 2017

I CAN’T EVEN.

(h/t Twitchy)